London

Sprung

Alas! Spring has sprung. It is my spring break, and I’m currently writing from Brussels, Belgium. We arrived in the evening and are out tomorrow night to Bruges.  Waffles are delicious, and we’re getting fries tomorrow. We saw Manneken Pis, which was a little disappointing, but cute nonetheless.

Should anyone be interested, here is our travel itinerary.

  • 25 March: London to Brussels
  • 26 March: Brussels, Belgium
  • 27 March: Bruges, Belgium
  • 28 March: Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 29 March: Zurich, Switzerland
  • 30 March: Geneva, Switzerland
  • 31 March-3 April: Nice, France
  • 3 April: Venice
  • 4 April-7 April: Rome
  • 7 April: Athens
  • 10? April: Prague
  • 11 April: Back to London

So those are the locations, major plans go with, but that will be updated as we go along, I hope.  Here’s to every thing going well and a wonderful time!

Dreams

Adventure Forth

skimming ideas from the dream. must study for test. pretty up the post later.

in the car with daniel. talking, eating pizza. then all of a sudden i notice him stop. and it took me a minute to realize we were at the mall or walmart. he was dropping me off, like for school. i get out, but realize its past closing, and i catch him before he drives off saying- if he’s going t be on his way back tomorrow anyway and its closed now, i cant do anything here but wait overnight so i might as well sleep at home and go with him tomorrow. so i get back in the car with my things.

hanging with some kids, austin and i want to venture to this one place.

grocery store with amanda. ice cream. she’s in the freezer, asking her where we are going to go. finding more flavors.

firehouse. ask steve for favor. pulling the screen down. waiting for them to return from a call.

austin invites to join in group thing. turns into teams. them vs. firehouse. i take steve’s side. other team had giant bags that they would ambush and capture the firehouse with. i needed to inform them. went to get cellphone (htc) tell steve.

hanging out with dan balan. on the way to the firehouse. jumping from giant gymnast mats. pizza carrier (from video), asked if original. said doesn’t know. but it’s a real pizza delivery thing. then these super sexy triplets come to join us. i wanted to climb up the giant mat,but the pizza box in the way. some of the girls slip, and its all fun and games.

gilly is one part of the opposing team. i wander out to get a head start away from everyone. end up in a mall gift shop place. after a while, souderton kids finally make it out there and i get tagged. head back.

memory flash back of a time when steve was sitting at a park table. this was on film.  he was describing how there were 70 diff kinds of chocolate bunnies. and being a viewer to the movie and knowing what happens next, ask about the rivers. and there’s some mini stream flowing down. he says in that part of the ganges river along, there are over 75 [streams] running into it. he used some fancy word, and then looked at tom and said- hear that- key word for today.

then in basement of a house. start playing old school songs, some amanda knows, but jenn doesnt. and it’s great reminiscing.

back on the big mats, harley and steve are there. when harley shows up, he has this facial hair. like < > marks where the mustache is, and this goatee. i compliment him on it, and was like- i like what you have going on there…that, chin thing (because I didnt want to say goatee, since it seemed like the wrong word). he laughed and gave me this oh, you’re cute when you dont know, sort of hug. and that hug woke me up.

General, London, School

Emotional

The past week plus, about, I have been in the worst mood. I want to blame Aunt Flo, but after yesterday, I know it’s not just her work.  She gets me moody, but not like this.  I have noticed (even Kelsey has told me), but every couple of months, I get just horribly depressed, down, mad at the world and pissy.  I can’t explain why, and I can’t predict when, I just know that it happens and I feel awful.  These are the days that lead me to suspect something wrong, something that’s much deeper.

I talked to my mom yesterday.  She told me that a friend is in the hospital. Blood poisoning, coma. They don’t know really what to expect at this point, but we’re all just praying for the best.  That really added to my day. That just broke me- I started crying unbelievably, and everything just felt awful.  I couldn’t study (which I really need to) but how could I focus in that state of mind?

I did for a brief moment chat with Dave, and even though it wasn’t anything special at all- probably the lamest chat, just having him there made me feel better. I’m gonna be super miserable should that end tragically.  But ok. I’m a wreck. We’ve established that.  I avoided my friends here. I want alone time, without the need to worry about exams. I’m curling up after the exam if I’m still feeling this way.

Anyway. I really want to get back into blogging here. I know it’s a rough chance, but it’s worth a shot. I renewed, right? Next 2 weeks, after exams and papers, I’ll be on spring break. 10-11 cities in 14 days. I should have my computer on me (to upload all my pictures so my memory card doesn’t get full), so maybe there will be time for something. Maybe.

I’ve been having a lot of trouble lately in general, actually. In the middle of the night, I wake up, and then I feel myself start to burn up. I start sweating and it’s a terrible feeling. Food has also not been my friend. Well, it has never agreed with me, really- but lately, I can’t seem to control myself. If it’s there, I’ll eat it. I don’t get the “full” feeling, and my mouth just needs to chew. I crave texture, it is not my stomach that wants anything. Gum is ok, but not satisfactory. Rahhh.

Ok. Laney just stopped by, and I should probably get back studying. STUDY STUDY…ew, who am I now, Dave?

Dreams

Calling

We were in this building hanging out. Amanda, Jenn, Georgeanne were there.

I remember getting a skype call from Dave, but he couldn’t connect to me- but I could see his video feed fine.  He was showing me things from around his apartment, and I was walking around chatting with him.  At a later point, it became a cell phone and we were just chatting along the way.

Being that I had Dave on the phone, I wanted anything to tell him, just because were talking.  I told him to guess what appened in lab, and then said that we broke a mercury thermometer. How fun.  But I told it as my mother was the one who did it, and he asked why she was in lab.  then my memory was funny because I couldn’t tell a dream from reality any more.  Why would my mother be in lab.

Either way, we kept chatting. I started climbing this mountain, and it was all covered in snow.  There was a game board to play that related to a Mario game.  You needed to get from point A to point B on the map. but each step was a new level that you needed to complete the same idea of going from point A to B.  The other side of the map was rainbow road.  It appeared as though it was like Labyrinth, with the rolling ball, but then at the one round, I dropped the game (which became like a game boy hand held device) into the snow.  I dug it out to try and finish.

I had to shoot the ball down and have it land as close to the edge without falling in.  I fell in the first time, the second time was closer, then the third time, I hit it so hard it bounced back and came forward again, but at a slower rate, and it went on for a bit so I really thought I might have it this time, but it still fell in.

Then we were leaving notes for teachers in the side of the mountain. I climbed up a little to write a message in the snow for a Mr. DiMartino character, then slid down because it was already started a little lower.

It was almost time to go, so I went to find my mom because she was my ride. We got a new car that was green, and she said that she’d give everyone a rie home, just meet her out there.  All the while, I was hoping for Dave to hear me speak asian with my mother.  I went back in and couldn’t find Amanda.  The other girls were all huddled together for a picture, then I realize Amanda was on the ground with the camera.  She took the picture and I mentioned that we should get going.  We’re slowly making our way out, and some of the things I intentionally try to let Dave hear me say, just because I’m still trying to make a good impression and appear cool.

I found my brother and we all headed out.  We crossed the street in my neighborhood to where my mom was, but she was gone.  Some cars started zipping by, and the one actually hit the other one because we were in the way.  Little asian woman got out and yelling at the guy in the big truck- even though I think it was her fault.  We’re walking back to the house and I tell Dave that we just saw a car accident right in front of us (neglecting to mention that it may have been our fault), and he thought it was pretty awesome.

Later, my mom shows up and I ask her what happened.  She said that one of the guys from church asked her if she was willing to risk damaging the new car bringing all these people home, so she went back to switch vehicles.  I thought she could have waited and even took us back to our house with the car, just so we weren’t waiting there not knowing where she went- but whatever.

General

Annoyed

Lately I’ve been kinda mad at the world. I say emotions, but it doesn’t change the fact that I’m apparently pissed at every one and every thing. A few days left until Spring Break. I hope I’ll feel better by then.