Archive for November, 2004
Tuesday, November 30th, 2004
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In leiu of the usual “why Spain is awesome and traveling rules,” I would like to present something a bit different today. Something called I may have eatten brains For lunch today I arrived a bit late. It was raining out. In the dining room, everyone was finishing eatting as I arrived, and no one [...]
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Monday, November 29th, 2004
More Italy trip journal
We hit the streets of Florence with no plans and just as little time. I remember the city as cars, smog, rubbish bins, phone booths and tourist shop mannequins all blurring together beneath swirling clouds in a wide-open blue sky which, although obscured by the ancient buildings, I absorbed completely. To have finally left the [...]
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Friday, November 26th, 2004
Post-thankful reflections. + a contest!
I realize that for most people Thanksgiving is one of those reassurance holidays. You know, the kind where friends and familiars return to the same family dining room and eat the traditional meal that hasn´t really changed since the introduction of green-bean casserole in the mid-fifties. A heart-warming practice to be sure. But Thanksgiving doesn´t [...]
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Thursday, November 25th, 2004
Holiday Pictures!
Feliz día de gracias, everyone! I´m thankful that I can grow a beard! And for my home country! And for the country that I´m living in now! I´m even thankful for the ocean between them! There´s just too much excellent stuff in the world to not be thankful. Totally thankful.
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Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004
between classes.
More Italy coming soon. But for now a quick update: -this is the first month since July in which I haven´t traveled to another country, but next month will see me traveling between five. -today was the first time I ever had to look up a word in Spanish to remember its English spelling (the [...]
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Saturday, November 20th, 2004
More from Italy! We go to Flourence! Hijinx ensue!!
We got up early to leave Venice and promptly realized that although our spacious camping bungalow had two showers, neither of them worked particularly well. Took the bus from the campground to the city center and took our time strolling to the train station, where we sat on the sunny steps and ate breakfast purchased [...]
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Thursday, November 18th, 2004
old italia
I have a sore throat. I´m not sure if it´s becaue I am getting over a cold, because I am just getting a NEW cold, or because I am surrounded by people smoking cigarettes. Either way, I am eatting a Twix bar, the first American candy I´ve bought here, and hoping it will make me [...]
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Thursday, November 18th, 2004
False start, excuses, etc.
I was just going to update, but now I have to go eat lunch. This has happened more times than you realize.
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Sunday, November 7th, 2004
More Venice
So we finished our pizza, were laughed at by some Italian kids and took a few pictures by some historical looking Roman columns, and headed back to the bus station where we zeroed in on a group of grungy looking American kids with backpacks, who were unsurprisingly headed to the same campground as us grungy [...]
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Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004
Venice
Venice is more or less what you expect — a little labrythine patch of snow-globe caliber Enchantment neatly crisscrossed by bridges, canals and laundry lines. There are persistent flower vendors, ornate fountians and vines overflowing the banks of the canals. There are all sorts of small boats tied up to docks next to the sidewalk. [...]