England / Ireland

So, it's been a busy week, and tomorrow I am off to England and Ireland.  The group I am going with will have a laptop with them, so I will try to put some updates up when I can.

Hope everything is well over there.

Spring Update

 

Well…

it has certainly been a while.

Springtime has come to Gaming.  It is still a little chilly, but the sun is out, and I saw some flowers growing on the path to the town today.  :-)

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So, where have I been so far?

-Vienna, but you already know about that. :-)

-Salzburg/Munich: a three-day trip, and a good starting experience.

-Innsbruck/Seefield/Absam: a trip with friends to see some of the miracles in Austria.

-Bratislava / Prague (Czech Republic / Slovakia): a mixed trip, with its own joys and complications.  Was pretty good overall, and dealt with some of my heritage.

-Poland: a good trip that dealt a lot with the past of Europe and the Church, and some of my heritage.

-Rome/Assisi: (10-Day) An amazing ten-day, and the longest trip to date.

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What am I planning to do?

-Ten-Day: We all get kicked out of the Kartause in a couple of weeks to go on our own 10-Day trips.  I am planning to go with three other people to see England (I think London and Liverpool) and then Ireland (not sure where, yet).

-France: I would like to visit Paris, to see Notre Dame (and the Crown of Thorns), the Louvre, and the Eiffel Tower.  Ideally, I am planning this during the Triduum, since the Crown of Thorns is exposed on Fridays during Lent.

-Budapest: I may visit Budapest, even though I know little about what I can see there.  I will be researching!

-Gaming: Yes, I still have to explore where I am living.  :-P  The weekends when I could have explored Gaming, I spent studying for exams (the first time) or doing nothing- which was nice, admittedly (the second time).  I have explored the town, and it’s not like we didn’t get a tour of it.  However, I still have yet to:

-Go to Urs (the local pub, reportedly with good pizza).

-Explore Book Mountain / the Waterfall.  Each requires something like 3 hours, and lots of walking / climbing.  I expect to take many awesome photos.  (I plan on going up Book Mountain sometime this week, in the morning.)

-Assisi: The one bummer about Assisi is that we didn’t get to see the tomb of St. Francis (the place was under renovation, and won’t be open again until after our ten-day trip).  I might like to go back, just to see the tomb when it is open to the public again.

-Switzerland: I’ve heard that there are amazing trails and such here.  However, I have also heard that it is expensive, so I will be taking that into account.

-???: I will be looking out for other places I may go on my free time… but really, there’s not that much time left.  (We were informed yesterday that we have 18 class days left! O_o)  I will be lucky to make it to all of the above places.

 

And, finally…

-Rome Super Trip: We will be going back to Rome briefly in order to attend the official Beatification of Pope John Paul II.  :-)  This will most definitely be the last thing I will be doing, since it takes place on the last weekend in Gaming, during final exams.  (Unless I take a spontaneous trip on a non-exam day, which is highly unlikely.)

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I see there are still some goals I have not accomplished, such as the Kochkäse (I can’t find that stuff anywhere! :-( )  Hopefully I will achieve them in the month and a halfish I have left.

My goal for this week is to get a post up every day.  I have been very bad about keeping this up-to-date.  I am sorry.  :-(  I can’t even guarantee that I will have all of the posts done by the time I fly back to Ohio, but I will do my best.

A Brief Update

Hello everyone.

I apologize for not posting anything awesome in the past two weeks.  I have a Metaphysics test tomorrow, and a Java test on Tuesday... even after those are done, I am going to have to start doing some reading for classes that I have put on the back burner for too long.

So, being totally honest:  I am not sure if I will post anything in the next few days, or even in the week.  If I do, expect it on Wednesday.  If I don't, expect it by next Wednesday, for sure.  I've kept you all wondering about my trip for far too long... and I certainly want to share it with all of you.  :-)  So hopefully, I'll find a time slot where I don't have schoolwork or travelling this week, and get to posting everything I have!

God bless.

Updating…

 

Well… I guess I should get updating, now, shouldn’t I?  :-)

I have over a week’s worth of posts to catch up on.  I will try to have everything done and posted by, say, the end of Thursday.

Weekend Plans

I have a bunch of homework I need to do relatively soon.  Both the teleconferenced courses and the Gaming courses seem difficult... but if I work at it, there should be no problems.
Sorry for not keeping up with the blog, guys.  Part of it is the homework, and part of it is the time management I still need to figure out, especially when my life is riddled with teleconferencing (sometimes for other people) and the need to eat and sleep.

So, this weekend marks the first time I will be out of the country.  And by country, I mean Austria.  We will stop in Salzburg first to witness not only the setting of The Sound of Music, but also, the setting for Mozart's life.  Then, we will go and see Munich in Germany.  Admittedly, I am a little nervous.  I am not sure how cordial other countries are in comparison with the Austrians.  But it should all be fine!  :-)

I will post catch-up stuff tonight if I have time, but I need to work on some important things first!  Auf Wiedersehen!

"No Internet" Tuesday nights (a.k.a afternoons for you!)

By the by, the Kartause has a "No Internet" policy for Tuesday nights. While it is useful for the purposes of focusing on schoolwork / self-growth, it means I will be unable to post or keep you updated after classes tonight. (And by tonight, I mean after 12 noon in the states until, say, 2 in the morning.)

Sidebar stuff

Man, I am so liking this versus Tumblr!  I forgot how many awesome things you can do in the sidebars and in general.

You will see many things in the sidebar on the right hand column.  First is the green emergency sign picture (because it is too awesome to not have there).  Second is a list of pages.  "Home" will take you home, and "My pictures thus far!" will bring you to a page that, eventually, will have all or most of my photos on it.

Third down the list is "My Weekend Plans".  This is just to keep you all updated on where I plan to go on the weekend.  Fourth down is the "Blog Archive".  You can see all of my posts from here.

Fifth down is a list of labels.  I will label certain posts based on what is in them, and you can use these links to see everything that involves that label.  This post has a label called "update", for instance.

Sixth and final is a list of things I would like to do.  Right now, there are only four items (one of which is completed- the italicized one), but I will try to think of more as time goes on.

Tomorrow I go to Vienna!  I will try and have all of my updates finished by Sunday!