I love walking in Paris! I walked about 20 miles today! I walked to school in the morning light, took an afternoon strole with a friend, explored a new park as the sun began to set, and then walked back home in the dark:) The city is so beautiful and so full of like and variety. I love walking in Paris! The only real down side is that my shoes aren't really good and it rained some last night so my feet are not only tired, they are wet and sore:( But it doesn&...

It's been a long time since the last time I wrote! I have so many different journals, real and electronic, that I find it difficult to keep up to date with all of them! If you haven't already, you could go check out my myspace, I check that one almost every day and keep it a little more up to date:) Christmas in Sweden was amazing! I got to be with family, which was a really nice change, to be with people I really know, well sort of. I have only really s...

I am in Sweden now with my family, I have been here three days. I have my own room and it is about three times as big as the one I was sharring with Mariana in Paris! It is fun being with family and not feeling like a stranger all the time. It snowed a bit yesterday and the ground is all white. I went for a run this morning. It was ten in the morning, but because the sun had just began to peak over the trees, it felt like seven. It was cold so I ran faster. It fe...

To everyone who has ever lived in or visited this great city, the memory and the idea of Paris takes a form as individual as the individuals that formed it. To me, it is magical, and it always will be. I will remember it always as a dream. A dance of light and winter branches, of architecture and art, of crêpes and café. Life is just bigger in Paris. It is like in the movies, when an ordinary scene is made extraordinary by the scenery. In the olden d...

Well, I am off! Tomorrow I hit the open road(railway actually) and head south for the winter! I will take the Saturday morning train from Barcelona and arrive in Sevilla around night fall - about 10 hours in train to get there! I stay two nights in Sevilla then I head off to Cordoba for two nights and finally to Granada for three before returning to Barcelona. I will stay one night here before flying to Paris on Sunday the 26th of November. I will not be taking m...