Woooo, Christmas time is here! It's nice being home, getting to see some friends and spend some time with the fam. Not too much else to do other than party it up before I head back out to cali.

Man, I can't wait to get back there. Europe was awesome, but getting back out to California is something I'm looking forward to. Sure I'm living with a freshman, sure I'm in Graham, but I'll be back at SCU dammit. Not for another week or so tho...which isn't all that bad.

Well, it's all over now. My internship is done, school is done. Awesome. Now I just get to live it up until I go home. This consisted of shopping and walking around London today. I found some extra travellers cheques, so those are going to good use.

I started packing earler this week and am pretty much done by now. It's kinda funny to look around the flat and see how much stuff my roommates have to pack in a day or less. I'm gonna enjoy watching that hilarity.

Oh, one nerdy thing, theres a website I frequent called digg. There are some dumb people on there, but it's basically a social news site that has some good stories every once in a while. Now that I got JB hooked into it, I figured I'd share what I thought was good here. Click on this button to go to the site to get my RSS feed:



You'll need Firefox or another RSS reader. Just get Firefox, and when you go to that page, you can bookmark my feed.

One more day in Europe...

Wow, so my time here is coming to an end. I just have two more days of work (woooohooo!!) then two days to hang out. I never thought this day would come. At least I get to go back to Califo...oh wait, I have to go to cold ass michigan first! DAM! Ah well, Christmas is always fun. And, now that I know I have a place to live for next quarter, it can be a bit more relaxing.

I've learned I can pretty much live in any situation imaginable after this trip. Packing 11 guys into a flat is probably the best way to train for that, and having completed it I'm not worried about anything else. Thanks FIE.

But yeah, 4 days. Crazy.

Well, my time with Jon in Europe has come to an end. But it was a very fun end. He flew back to the US yesterday so I'm stuck all alone out here for another week and a half. I did finally make it to a new country though, which I'm rather happy about. We went to Spain and Portugal for his last weekend here. Sleeping on night trains was interesting, but I think I prefer the bed cabins rather than the chairs-that-dont-recline cabins.

So we saw a bunch of cool stuff in a very short period of time. It was kinda cool to get to use my Spanish again, and after a day or two, I was actually having a conversation with some guys we were sharing a sleeper car with. Good times.

We started out in Madrid, then took a night train to Portugal, spent a day there, then night trained it back to Madrid. We had another day in Madrid, then night trained it to Barcelona for two days there. We actually got a 4 star hotel in Barcelona for 60euros for both of us, so it was a little better than a train.

It was quite interesting getting off the train in Portugal (Lisbon) having NO IDEA what to do there, or where we were. We walked out of the train station after having just woken up, and saw big cruise-liners. Now, neither of us knew exactly where in Portugal Lisbon was, but we didn't think it was by the ocean. So that was fun to wake up to. But we got everything figured out, saw all the cool stuff, and ate some really really really sugary things for breakfast.

Alright, so theres the quick update from over here. I'm heading out to class soon, my last "Internship" seminar, thank God. I think it ties for the most pointless class of all time, right up there with "Water=wet?"

Oh, and to the "annonymous" commenter below...holla