For the past couple of years I've kept my travel journal at http://travel-on.livejournal.com/ and now I am importing some of the recent entr…

Well, I partly got my wish. I´m not leaving Spain quite yet. My flight to Amsterdam got cancelled and then all flights to the US are backed up fro…

Only a week has passed and I already feel as though I´m leaving a home. Christine and all of her friends have been absolutely wonderful. I had the…

I´ve been in Granada for three days now and I must say that I am completely jealous of Christiné´s life here. Well...except for my little bank f…

I´m in Granada now and I´m ready to give my plane ticket home away and stay here for a while. It is absolutely gorgeous and I am in love with the…

I'm in my last semester at Drew University and I have my last spring break as an undergraduate student and for Christmas I received a plane ticket …

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): "Never eat food you did not prepare yourself,"wrote journalist David Filipov about the lessons he learned while travelingi…

Its been a while since I´ve had access to internet. We spent 2 nights and three days in the village of Alzucar. That was when we had our homestay.…

We´re at Casa Mojanda now and its absolutely beautiful. On the afternoon in which we arrived I immediately took the opportunity to do the 20 minut…

I just got back from the Cloude Forest. We stayed at this man´s house in the middle of the rainforest. We are in Otavalo right now. I have about 3…

Okay. Im back from the Rainforest and I survived! Ha.Anyways, just to give you an update. On the plane ride to Ecuador we had a huge delay in Texas…

I am leaving for Newark Airport in about 5 minutes. I have about 10 hours of flying with one 2 hour lay over in Texas. After that I will fly direct…

Tomorrow morning I leave for the first leg of my journey. North Jersey.I will be staying with my friend Christine and her family at their house in …

In terms of my financial budget for traveling...I am doing quite excellent.I received a $1200 scholarship from Perley Free School.So I can pay my d…

I'm home now. I am comfortably surrounded in my rolly chair and down comforter. I've already had my hot shower and Kelly's Roast Beef sandwich. I'm…

I think my Uncle Dave would be very upset with that last update. Upon rereading it and rereading a few of my recent comments...I've realized that I…

I'm leaving this evening!!!WOW! What a semester.A reflective update will ensue as soon as I set foot in my house. (because i'm sure my parents will…

I just got back from dinner with Jackie (my AD) and Danielle.Danielle and I took Jackie out for dinner after the Nutcracker Ballet. Well...I succ…

I'm getting more and more nervous about coming home and coming home to Drew. Not so much coming home to my family - because they HAVE to love me.…

Coconuts Beach Resort = MANIA!(mania = Samoan for nice)My mom told me to get myself a really nice souveneir to take home. I already have enough l…

Last night I had an allergic reaction to a custard apple.It is this huge ugly fruit with spikes.Only 5 tala at the market.Luckily I survived with a…

I saw Harry Potter last night.FINALY!!!I want to see it again and again and again. The music to The Chronicles of Narnia sounds amazing...although …

I had a nice day with Jori and Zach. It consisted of pancakes in the morning, a long walk to the grocery store, a bit of internet and some pineap…

I've been very busy, but I've found that the library has three computers with internet in the morning and at night the SIT students have been a…

The Fijians left this morning at 5:30am. I didn't sleep at all. I went to their farewell Kava Ceremony at a Fijian's house off campus and then I …

I dont update for a few days and I get a crazy amount of requests! Sorry guys. I've been really busy going about town doing my primary research f…

I'm back from Fiji. I'm a lot less homesick now that i've talked to my mom and dad on the phone, my sister on aim and i got forwarded an online p…

I'm in Suva now. We just spent three days and two nights in a village up in the mountains with no electricity and only two bathrooms for the whol…

American Samoa.Thus far this has been the most depressing 4 days of my trip. I'm going to be blunt and to the point. It was the worst part of S…

I haven't really posted about Savai'i. I don't really know how to. Like so many of my experiencies my words would not be able to convey what I wa…

"The purpose of life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out sh…

Complete Conversation while standing on a cliff overlooking a larger waterhole/waterfall:Pete: It looks pretty dangerous.Colin: Yah, it does.::…

I'm hopefully talking to my parents at noon (my time) today. This will be my first time talking to them on the phone since Hawai'i. However, than…

Iee! I have one of the greatest opportunities for the month of November. I am working with Momoe vonReiche (a very famous and influencial Samoa…

Where do I start? I feel as though half that is how I start all of my entries. There are no real beginnings here...or endings. Everything is just…

Our first language exam went well today. Even the interview part.I still don't have a firm grasp of the sentence structure...but my vocabulary …

Another huge issue we're trying to address here is traditional culture and westernization and how they are connected and how they have both tra…

Once again I have very little time to make an update. I found an internet cafe that is open until 10pm because our computer lab at the school…

I'm in Samoa now. I've moved into my room and everything is great.I've attended my first Kava Ceremony, visited one of the seven Ba'hai temples i…

Last night was spent on Sunset Beach on the North Shore.It was absolutely gorgeous and the only thing I could have asked for was to be there with m…

I am currently reading short stories by Albert Wendt. He is coming to speak to our class today during our first session. The second session today…

I'm still in Hawaii and the amount of plastic is really getting to me.Waikiki can be fun...but what i'm really looking forward to is our island tou…

I arrived in Hawaii on Tuesday night around 8pm. I flew on a Delta flight with 6 other SIT students. We spent a lot of the flight talking and get…

I arrived at the Los Angeles Airport on Saturday morning with no complications. I had one layover in Ohio but I arrived on time and safely. Elyse…

I made the last few purchases with my mom this evening at Walmart. We bought my multi-vitamins, laxatives and other necessities that come along w…

Jen,I called the other day and left a message that your tickets to and fromSamoa had arrived. Not sure if you got it.You are on flight DL263 from…

A little more than 24 hours ago i was laying on the beach.Now i'm back in Massachusetts with a little less than 3 feet of snow on the ground.We…

Leaving Viña at 5pm today...Just e-mailed my parents and figured out what is going on once i get back to the states...in terms of the snow…

Today is my last full day in Chile. And what have I done so far? Slept in until 11:00am and now i´m at the internet cafe finishing plans with my…

I haven´t updated in quite a while. I have checked my mail and had time to get to an internet cafe...I just have been too stressed after reading…

Can you believe that Jen has gone without the internet for more than a day? Progress!ha ha...or as the Chilenos would say ja ja.All right...so mo…

Wow. Wow. Wow!! Still here and still in awe.Last time I wrote here I was heading to the casino. Sadly I did not win any dinero! But then agai…

Wow. Can we say amazing weather? (This is making me look forward to summer on the shore even more now!!)Yesterday morning we had class. Class is…

So I´m finally here. Really. I am. (I keep pinching myself in order to wake myself up from this dream).I had a 10pm flight out of JFK that didn…

I leave for Chile tomorrow at 10pm.I am still not fully packed...but I am sooo excited.Eeks...I just can't believe its almost here.People keep as…