One weekend we grouped up a random assortment of international students and took off for a weekend long trek between towns that ends up at beautiful lake Quilotoa. This route is called the Quilotoa loop and it has been well traveled by many Ecuadorian tourists before because there is no guide necessary and you get to see a variety of nature and towns along the way.

I'm back in the United States. I'm sitting on Elizabeth's couch right now, under many blankets and boxes of greasy, American take out. I've been back for nearly a week and I have no clue what I am doing. I can't wrap my head around the life I created in Dublin - I can't zoom out and see what it all meant to me. It's too much.

Salut!

Bonjour from my chambre de bonne dans le 6ème,

We woke up at 6:30 AM on a Saturday to a cloudy sky and damp grounds. Though the weather wasn’t ideal for the trip, we refused to let it make a damper on our enjoyment of our travels that day.

The first stop of our trip led us to take a tour of the Melk Abbey, a huge building painted butter yellow and white. Our tour guide led us from room to room, some of which had been restored, while others had been completely changed from their previous Baroque decorations to modern pieces of glass, mirrors, and neon lights.

 Hey everyone!

Just a warning: this post might be a bit disorganized, it's kind of a rambling of my thoughts.

Friends, today I am going to geek out about music. Specifically, classical music. Specifically-specifically, playing classical music in an orchestra. If that’s not something you care about, you can check out a different blog post, like the one where I talk at length about buying peanut butter, or the one where I post a lot of travel pictures and go into detail about other people’s shoes.

(I realize that this blog is not always what you would call “quality.)