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Journey Back to America

So it has taken me a while to get this on here…but I couldn’t just leave it out! It was a huge part of my Germany Experience! So I woke up at about 6am and my friend drove me to the airport. He dropped me off and I

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20 Things I am Not Going to Miss About Germany

1. Walking everywhere! 2. Carrying heavy groceries 3. Hard and boring classes 4. Catching the bus or train 5. Sorting all of my garbage 6. The tiny refrigerators 7. The extremely odd weather (especially since its usually cold) 8. Outrageous prepaid phone plans 9. Over priced soft drinks 10. The

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20 Things I am Going to Miss About Germany!

1. All of my wonderful friends from all over the world! 2. The beautiful scenery…vineyards everywhere. 3. Ease of Travel to other countries 4. Toni’s Ambstkeller 5. Schnitzel 6. Berliners 7. Doner (even though it’s not German) 8. The 2 Euro bottles of delicious wine. 9. Franziskaner

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Departure from Barcelona

I woke up at 3am, threw my clothes on, and looked out the window to see if there were any taxis sitting around and there were 2 by the hotel. Pauli had told me to check for some before I called one. So I knocked on her door (she wanted

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Final Day in Barcelona

I woke up around 5ish to Nasha talking on the phone with the taxi driver. I stood on the deck and watched her get in the cab before going back to sleep. Pauli was going to meet me after she got off work at 2. I ended up sleeping until

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Barcelona Day 3: Stadium, Picasso Museum, and Magic Fountain!

Karis and Phyllis were flying out this day, so we were on our own this day. We woke up late again since we were out so late. We headed to the stadium and since it was Sunday it was closed, but it was still cool to see it and take

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Barcelona Day 2: Mountain and Castle!

We slept in pretty late the next day, but that was ok because we had planned to meet the others at about 1 to climb up the mountain to the castle! We met at the plaza again and before heading off to the mountain, we looked for a Vodafone store…

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Barcelona Day 1: Park Guell and Flamenco

The first day, we woke up and met at Plaza Catalunya. Luckily everyone was there this time! We then headed to Park Guell. This is an architecture park with the works of Gaudi! I love this artist…he is so unique! The park was amazing and great for beautiful photo

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Ibiza to Barcelona

The next day, we took our time packing our stuff up; we didn’t have to check-out until noon! Then we left our luggage in a storage room and headed out to walk around the town one last time. We bought a few last minute souvenirs. Then we were hot

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Ibiza Day 2

The next morning, we again woke up later than expected. We had stayed up too late talking about random stuff! This was our last full day in Ibiza and we needed to make it good! Unfortunately, the weather was a little cooler than the day before, so we decided to

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Ibiza Day 1

Our plan was to wake up early, like around 8 to start our first day in Ibiza. However, we didn’t end up getting up until around 10ish. We made ourselves some breakfast, threw our suits on, and headed to the beach. We were somewhat disappointed with the beach that

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Arrival in IBIZA!

On Monday I woke up to take my last final and then rushed around to finish packing and get ready for Ibiza!!! Our flight left around 6, so we left Oestrich-Winkel on the 2pm train. We took it to Mainz and there we caught a bus to the Frankfurt-Hahn Airport.

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Brussel, Belgium

I woke up and raced to get ready. I realized that breakfast didn’t start until 8am! So I got everything ready to go, ran down to gobble up breakfast, ran back up to get my stuff, and went to check out. I got to the bus stop right at

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Beautiful Brugge

I woke up the next morning a little later than planned, but that was ok. I grabbed some free breakfast and then headed out to explore the little town of Brugge! I walked to the square and took some pictures of the Belfry Tower before heading to the Chocolate Museum!

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Den Haag, Netherlands to Brugge, Belgium

Sunday morning, I got up early again to jump on a train and head to the Netherlands. It was a 7 hour train ride to Den Haag (and this was on the fast trains). Once I finally got there, I jumped on a tram and headed to Madurodam. This is

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Europa-Park

On Saturday, Nasha, Karly, and I jumped on a train and headed to Europa-Park! If you don’t know, this is a huge Amusement Park in the southern part of Germany. Inside you can visit different countries in Europe such as France and Greece! After a long 6 hour train

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Automotive Brand Management

So I haven’t written very much on here about school, but I wanted to write about this class! This was my favorite class all semester! We got to learn a bunch of inside stuff about Porsche! It was fun to see actual concepts put into action through Porsche! After

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Ladies Night!

Last night, Toni hosted a Ladie’s Night at Keller! It was sooo much fun! Seven of my friends and I dressed up and then headed to the bar! We arrived to find 2 bouncers standing outside the door with pink wristbands for us! (This was odd because this is

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Best Day Ever: Primark Adventure

Yesterday was seriously like the best day ever! Nasha and I headed to Frankfurt in search of my all time favorite store Primark! The first time I went to one was a mall in Scotland…and I fell in love! After a long, almost 2 hour, train ride, we ended

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Paris Day 5: Happy to Head Home

I woke up the next morning to them talking in Spanish. They completely ignored the fact that I was in the room for the entire duration of our morning routine. That was another thing that was bothering me all weekend. Everytime Diana would get mad at me, she would talk

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Paris Day 4: Louvre Museum and Eiffel Tower at Night

Monday morning we woke up to head to the Louvre Museum! We grabbed yet another breakfast at McDonalds and were on our way. Not to our surprise, there was of course another long line! Again we had an issue, Diana and Nasha took off to go take pictures and left

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Paris Day 3: Chateau de Versailles

The next morning started off rough…this was the beginning of my roommate problems! From this point on Diana and I were butting heads about every little thing! She always jumps out of bed and starts getting ready right when the alarm goes off. Everyone that knows me, especially my

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Paris Day 2: Struggle to Turn the Trip Around

We got up at about 7, quickly got ready and headed out to look for a new hotel. We found a McDonalds, got some breakfast, and used the Wifi to search for places. The 2 people from the other room, found a place with one room available and just took

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Paris Day 1: The Nightmare

I arrived in Paris around 7:30 pm and had to wait an hour for my friends to arrive on the next flight. When they didn’t show up when expected, I went to the information desk and they told me that that flight had been moved to another terminal.