School: A Way to Pass the Time Until I Can Travel Again

More Observations from Dublin:
-The noise to cross the street sounds like a laser and then a bomb ticking unlike Manchester which just sounds like a heart monitor is failing
-The Irish are much more friendly and helpful
-The lamp street lights are all clover designed and silver
-The mailboxes look the same as Manchesters only Green
-EVERYTHING IS GREEN... more people wear green, green signs, really green grass... just anything you can think of is green
-There are no four leaf clovers in Ireland... only three
-Cost of living for Dublin is higher than Manchester
-There are a lot of homeless people... even children
-The streets are very clean and put together with greenery (trees and hanging flower pots) not at all like Manchester
-They are really friendly to tourists!
Their bus system is not nearly as great as Manchester
-Guinness is HUGE more huge than you can imagine in Dublin

So some updates on whats going on. I have booked many many trips and do not have a free weekend until end of November (thats how I like it). And I would still like to book my trip to Amsterdam I am just waiting to see how my finances are doing. The main thing I would like to see in Amsterdam is The Anne Frank House (her hiding house) and also the Van Gough Museum, Amsterdam Info Center, Red Light District and much more. Locals here say that is amazing and nothing like any other city in Europe. We will see....

Here is my Schedule this far:
-This weekend: Edinbrough, Scotland : Hollyrood Palace and Edinbrough Castle
-Next: London: London Eye, Wicked, Whole Day London Tour, Market Places
-Reading Week: Italy: Rome, Florence, Cinque de Terre, Venice and Milan (NOTE: I am so incredibly excited I found a tour to Cinque de Terre it is so beautiful ... google image it!) Then Bath and Stonehenge for a weekend.
-November 11th: Manchester United Game
-Barcelona, Spain
-Paris, France: Opera House, Moulin Rouge, Arc de Triomphe, Le Louvre, up to the top of Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, Versailles... and much more

And that is it for now!!

I have already started a map of all the places in Europe I have gone to/ will go to and all the places I want to go to when I come back. When I get back to Seattle I want to buy a larger map of the world and pin these places according to a color key. Places I want to visit in the future are Prague, Monte Carlo, Madrid, Galway, Belfast, Brussels, Munich, all over Greece, Portugal and Ibiza.

I have decided that school is just a way to pass my time until I can travel again. I do some homework, go to class, work out, rest up and do it all over again... it is a pretty sweet life.

I miss you all!
Natalie