I discovered after writing blog entries that it was seriously cutting into my sightseeing/reading/partying time. So I stopped writing about what I was doing and started doing more things. That suited me much more than my exhibitionist stint as a sub-par travel blogger. There has to be a better balance--I just haven't achieved it yet. So here's a small update for all of my devoted followers (the list in whole includes my grandmother and my mom) who have been pining away for an update on all of the super thrilling things I've been up to for the last five months. One word pretty much sums it up: freeloading.
I'm 80% joking. After leaving Morocco, which is when I abandoned online self-worship, I got to see my dearest Cathy in Spain where she is doing super awesome things living the English teacher expat life in Madrid. Spain was extra comfortable because I could actually order in a restaurant, and as usual I met some super cool people there. For example, I met a Brazilian gentleman who introduced me to the Portuguese term "saudades," which has no translation in English, and basically connotes a deep, nostalgic yearning for something that you will never see or feel again. Anyway, look it up and read about it. It's very interesting.
After Spain there was Prague for a few weeks. Prague fun included a lot of really cheap, awesome Czech beer, Absinthe, Australians, Kafka's house, getting paid under the table to teach English, hanging out with old friends, and a lot of eating. Then I took a bus to Budapest. I've decided bus travel is top shelf transportation because it's cheap, they serve you free coffee, and you get to see the beautiful countryside. Actually, Hungary in the fall looks a lot like Kentucky, so I felt perfectly at home. We made a stop in Bratislava which was nice and nothing like the way it is portrayed in the classic American film that informs so much of America's youth on European culture, Eurotrip.
At this point in my travels I was feeling confident, so I didn't book a hostel in Budapest. I got off the bus, took a train to the center of the city. On the train I met a couple of Mexican travelers and went with them to their hostel. They were super cool, and became my sightseeing cohorts for Budapest. Also in Budapest I was able to meet up with an oldie-but-goodie friend I had met in Baku, who studies in Budapest now and took me to see some sights and drink some Hungarian wine in some local spots that were really quirky and cute. In one little bar we went to we sat in a bathtub. That is not a lie.
Blah, blah, blah, I went back home for Christmas, moved to Florida for a few months to stay with my BFF, hung out in Tampa, Sarasota, and Key West! And now I'm going to be a Teach For America English teacher in the Mississippi Delta. Mississippi will be an adventure of an entirely different nature, and I will make some half hearted attempt to write interesting tidbits about that, of which I'm sure there will be plenty (plenty of tidbits, not attempts).
I'm 80% joking. After leaving Morocco, which is when I abandoned online self-worship, I got to see my dearest Cathy in Spain where she is doing super awesome things living the English teacher expat life in Madrid. Spain was extra comfortable because I could actually order in a restaurant, and as usual I met some super cool people there. For example, I met a Brazilian gentleman who introduced me to the Portuguese term "saudades," which has no translation in English, and basically connotes a deep, nostalgic yearning for something that you will never see or feel again. Anyway, look it up and read about it. It's very interesting.
After Spain there was Prague for a few weeks. Prague fun included a lot of really cheap, awesome Czech beer, Absinthe, Australians, Kafka's house, getting paid under the table to teach English, hanging out with old friends, and a lot of eating. Then I took a bus to Budapest. I've decided bus travel is top shelf transportation because it's cheap, they serve you free coffee, and you get to see the beautiful countryside. Actually, Hungary in the fall looks a lot like Kentucky, so I felt perfectly at home. We made a stop in Bratislava which was nice and nothing like the way it is portrayed in the classic American film that informs so much of America's youth on European culture, Eurotrip.
At this point in my travels I was feeling confident, so I didn't book a hostel in Budapest. I got off the bus, took a train to the center of the city. On the train I met a couple of Mexican travelers and went with them to their hostel. They were super cool, and became my sightseeing cohorts for Budapest. Also in Budapest I was able to meet up with an oldie-but-goodie friend I had met in Baku, who studies in Budapest now and took me to see some sights and drink some Hungarian wine in some local spots that were really quirky and cute. In one little bar we went to we sat in a bathtub. That is not a lie.
City Center in Praha
Some Goulash or Something in Hungary. Delicious and about 5 USD.
Blah, blah, blah, I went back home for Christmas, moved to Florida for a few months to stay with my BFF, hung out in Tampa, Sarasota, and Key West! And now I'm going to be a Teach For America English teacher in the Mississippi Delta. Mississippi will be an adventure of an entirely different nature, and I will make some half hearted attempt to write interesting tidbits about that, of which I'm sure there will be plenty (plenty of tidbits, not attempts).
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