I am currently taking a quick blog break from cleaning and packing before we go to Amsterdam tomorrow! We are staying in an Airbnb which I think will be a fun way to see and explore the city. I am have been trying to look up some fun things to do around the city, but I think we are pretty much going to wing it. There is so much to do, I don't think we will get bored.
This past weekend we babysat for Simon's cousin who lives pretty close by which was fun! Her and her husband have two little kids, Lise who is 2 and Miel (which means honey!) who is 1. They are both incredibly cute, unfortunately Lise was about to go to sleep when we got there so I don't have any pictures of her, put I snapped plenty of little Miel.
Not much to report on the visa front this week, hopefully when we get back from Amsterdam the papers from the police will have gotten to the immigration office!
There was no school this week, and next week on Tuesday I have the oral part of my final exam so this weekend I need to practice my speaking with Simon!
Dutch phrase of the day: Ik moet studeren voor mijn exam! = I must study for my test!
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adventures,
Alice's Tea Cup,
brooklyn,
europe,
family,
friends,
JR,
Lincoln Center,
Manhattan,
New York City,
NYC,
The Guggenheim,
The Met,
The Modern,
travel
Before I hoped the pond over to Belgium I stopped in New York City to say goodbye to some family and friends. I was only there for four days, so I had to pack a lot into each day in order to see everyone and everything I wanted to. My cousin Rosy was my main confidant while I was there, we went to The Guggenheim, The Met, Lincoln Center, Alice's Tea Cup (twice!) and various other places around Manhattan and Brooklyn. One of the highlights for me from out adventures was seeing the work of JR at Lincoln Center. For those of you who don't know JR he is/was a street artist that I really love. He is famous for taking very up close portraits of people and pasting them on huge surfaces among the community the subject comes from. If you don't know some of his earlier work I would highly recommend checking it out. He has really blown up in the past few years which is both good and bad, but he is doing some really beautiful work with the New York City Ballet which is up on the outside and inside of Lincoln center. You have to pay to see the inside, so unfortunately I do not know what it looks like inside but from what we could see on the outside it looks pretty spectacular.
Another very big highlight for me on this trip was going to dinner at The Modern with my wonderful aunt. She was very very kind to me and took me there for a birthday/graduation celebration dinner. I had no idea what to expect but the whole meal was really above and beyond my expectations. We ordered four courses and were brought nine, four of which were dessert. Even though I did not know about 3/4 of the ingredients in any of the dishes I had, everything was amazingly delicious.
I also was fortunate enough to see my friend Taylor from boarding school and my friend Hannah and her girlfriend Rachel, hannah whom I know from basketball all the way back in 7th grade. I had lost of fun going out in Brooklyn with taylor, seeing some nice bars in her neighborhood and then cuddling with her roommates pug in the morning. Then with Hannah we cooked a nice meal on the upper west side and caught up over a few glasses of wine. Also, my other aunt who lives in upstate NY with my grandma drove over 4 hours to come have lunch withe me on my last day in the city. It was over the top of her to do that, but I am more than happy that I got to see her before I left the country. Overall it was a great trip and a great way to see so many people I love before heading off to Belgium. Here are some photos from the trip, please forgive me they might be a little out of order!
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5:51 PM
Barcelona,
Boqueria,
Ciutadella Park,
Els Quatre Gats,
europe,
family,
Gaudi,
Plaza Catalunya,
Sagrada Familia,
Spain,
Thanksgiving,
travel,
vacation
After traveling every weekend for the past month, I was very much looking forward to staying in Barcelona for the next two weeks. I was also very excited because my two cousins, Rosy and Lulu, were coming to visit me for thanksgiving! This was very exciting for multiple reasons, number one: I hadn't seen any of my family in over three months, number two: this was the first time I would be out of the United States for thanksgiving, and number three: This was the first vacation we had ever taken without the older generation of our family!Both of them arrived on Thanksgiving day and Rosy was only going to be in Barcelona for a grand total of three days so we really had to pack a lot into each day.
Rosy landed first, so while we were waiting for Lulu to arrive I took her on a little tour of my neighborhood and to my favorite coffee place that served large coffee's (which equal the size of a small coffee in the states)!
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For the first week in August, and now for Labor Day weekend, my family and I went to our family house in upstate New York in the town of Barneveld. This mostly involves us sitting around the kitchen table eating and drinking, occasionally getting up to go for a swim in the creek, and if we are REALLY motivated, a casual game of tennis. Here are a few photos from our trip:
*most of you reading this already know this information and probably took some of these photos and/ or are in them
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