Alive and well in Amsterdam

Aside from a cold, I'm having a blast in Amsterdam. Tomorrow I fly back to London in the morning, then Monday evening it's back to Virginia. It's going to be weird being back in the US, but great to see my family and friends again. I just wanted to let you all know where I am and that I'm alive. Unfortunately I don't have time to tell you any stories. Love you all!!

Meg and I are now in Brussels, Belgium. Our lives are fantastic. We love it here, and we had a great time in Paris. Tomorrow we are going on a daytrip to Bruges, then on the next day (Thursday, I guess, the 12th, in any case) we are off to Amsterdam. The keyboards in Belgium are strange. I cannot figure out apostrophes or exclamation points and you need to shift to use numbers and periods, and many of the letters are in the wrong place.

I love you all and miss you.

Sad.

The Culture of London program is over. Tomorrow, my new family is torn apart. Surely I will cry. However, my friend Meg and I are off to Paris, so once that fact finally hits me (maybe when we emerge from the Chunnel), I'll get over it and be ecstatic again. I mean, I have been wanting to go to Paris for years, and I am pretty excited about it, it just isn't quite overpowering my sadness at this ending. This program has been one of the best experiences of my life.

I might not have computer access very much or even at all for the next 10 days, but I promise that sometime after I get home I will do some massive picture uploading for you all.

Love you and miss you!!!

Wicked

Last night I saw the musical Wicked, which was pretty fantastic. I'm glad that I hadn't read the book recently, because it probably would have driven me crazy. They did a good job cutting it down to play size, but the ending was definitely different, much happier and less open ended.

I spent the afternoon after class hanging out with my friend Jen going to cool bookstores on Charing Cross Road, but I couldn't find any used British "adult" versions of Harry Potter (she wrote both a children's and an adult version, and the British versions apparently have more references to British things. So I might just get the 4th one and lend it to Jordan, and not the 1st, 3rd and 4th plus an extra 4th for Jordan, as I originally planned if I could find them cheaply at a used book store.