I have reached my last stop in Europe, Jolly old England- London town and what not. It's been a long and amazing trip and I'm ready to go home and share my stories. Since my last blog entry much has happened. From Sorrento I took a train to Bari and stayed the night there before taking a 15 hour ferry to Patras, Greece. The ferry ride was epically long! I did my best to sleep through it because I was quite motion sick. We reached Patras at 6 a.m. on my birt...

Hello from beautiful Sorrento! I'm really loving Italy, the weather has been gorgeous and I'm seeing and experiencing so many wonderful things. Since my last update I've been to Rome and moved on to Sorrento. I liked Rome, not as much as Florence but it was still really nice. It was much busier and fast-paced but there were sooo many great historical things to see. My first day there was very busy. I went to the colloseum, the Roman Forum and Palatine hill ...

My luck with weather has finally turned around. It is wonderfully warm and sunny here in Florence! I really love this city, it is so beautiful. I'm on my last night here now and have had such a wonderful time! On day one we got in really early from our night train so we were pretty tired most of the day. We walked around and checked out the street market that is really near our hostel. An awesome street market that close to where I am staying is not good fo...

Germany has been amazing!!!! It's been so much fun to see the things I 've learned about in classes in real life. I'm also really enjoying getting to use my German. I understand a lot more than I thought I would, which makes my years of German study feel worthwhile. Since my last update we've traveled from Dresden to Berlin and then on to Munich. Our second day in Dresden was lots of fun albiet very chilly. Some of Kristi's friends from Germany showed us ar...

Hello from Germany!!!! I haven't been able to update for a while because we have been so busy!!! I really enjoyed the rest of the time we spent in Turku. We went and checked out the castle, and it was really neat and we also went bowling which was an interesting cultural experience. We flew from Turku to Bremen and then took the train to Wunsdorf where Dana's friends Angela and Reinhardt Schmidt picked us up. The Schmidt's are the parents of Henricka, on of ...