Back to business...or school.

So its been an absurdly long time since the last post. Im back in DC after spending fall abroad in Spain and Im pleased to announce Ive been helping my sister out on her videoblogs, Starring Amanda and today on the ABC news website. Its been a blast and I look forward to contributing more. Im also definitely going to upload future video projects Im working on here once I get my new hard drive set up. Im pleased to announce that Barca is once again on top of La Liga in Spain though its still really close, damn Sevilla! Until next time check out Neo-con buzzword bingo courtesy of BoingBoing via Popurls.

Im so sorry Rob.

Somehow, in my rush to post my contribution to Node666 I failed to credit one of the most dedicated and professional showmen seen since Tucker Carlson He is the heart and soul of the Send More Brains Players, and in his dedication to the role of Zombie Captive he actually ate a human brain, his work ethic is clearly unparalleled. I only hope he can find a way to forgive me.

Here Rob and I are thumbing our noses at convention and propriety while we backpacked through W.Europe 2004.

It´s aliiiiiive! Bwaha ha haaa

Blog Abroad Vlog Post Appears!

So my first official vlog post for Blogabroad is up, its from our trip to Santorini during our 3 day marathon through the Greek Isles. Something is wrong with the audio and I dont know how to fix it, but I dont think it will happen on the other videos. My next video will be a pretty exciting one from the mayhem that is a Real Madrid game, one I went to a month ago, but I feel its necessary to mention Saturday while I was at the Atletico Madrid game Barca destroyed Villa Real 4 - 0, including Ronaldinho´s bicycle kick goal from around the pk line. ANYWAY...back to class. Hope all three of you enjoy the video.

Roma y Firenze!

Last wednesday our group left at 4 in the AM for our 6:30 AM flight to Rome. We had booked a different flight but the airline cancelled it and then forced us onto this one. Upon reaching the airport the airline to which our tickets had been transferred denied having our reservations. So at 5 AM we called Raffa, our official travel agent/anti-Franco pro-Atletico Madrid (futbol team) overall kickass guy (to use the parlance of our times). He had words with the airlines. Strong words. Words that got us on our flight to Italy. We stopped in Pisa on the way to Florence. The tower was still there if you were wondering. It's "still tippin' on 44's". (mike jones!)

We then hit Florence, saw the David and the leather markets. The usual.

Rome: We were in town for the wedding of Joey Potter and Cruise Control, and though I didn't see them a group of my friends stumbled upon the hotel where the guests were staying and saw Beckham, Victoria Beckham, J.Lo, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett and the guy from Access Hollywood recording a promo. "When in Rome...if you're invited to this event you better be dressed to the 9's" He kept messing up his lines and they laughed, which he noticed. Later, it's said that a single tear escaped his make up and fake bake encrusted skin. :*(

We saw all the sites, Vatican, Basillica, Colloseum etc. and then went out afterwards, at least I did with some friends. One night we ran into a group of Italian guys and one particularly vulgar individual harassed a female friend of mine. The situation almost got bad however she can handle herself like a pro and I calmed everyone down by bonding over Family Guy. I told them I was from New England and they said, "oh yes, greenfield...grifield...griffin! That is where Peter Griffin is from." Problem solved.

The weather was absurd, sunny and hot, perfect for justifying multiple Gelato stops. First video should be posted on StudyAbroad today, hope everyone likes it though I maintain its still just raw and pretty rough footage of my experiences so dont judge it too harshly, it's certainly no AmandaAcrossAmerica or Galacticast.

The good news is there will be more videos to come! Including but not limited to, 1 raucous Real Madrid game (I still am a serious Barca fan) and countless other excursions across the mediterranean. Peace!

paris/amsterdam

so in the last week Ive been in Paris, seen my dear parents and good friend Matt Miller, saw morissons grave along with a number of other attractions including zoos, eiffel towers and crepe places. Then came Amsterdam with the canals, the coooold and rainy weather and the Heineken Brewery Experience which is more like an amusement park than a museum. Delicious. Now this evening we have a 9:30 ish flight home to Madrid and then its back to school. wooh! what a week.

It's been a while...

I must apologize to my err..fans regarding the passing of almost a month since my last post. PREVIOUSLY, on Pawn Takes Queen...."I'm going to Greece and Turkey for 12 days" and since then (I got back to Spain on the 9th of Oct.) I had two days of class then left the following Thursday for Mallorca...got back from Mallorca, had 3 days of class and then went to dun DuN DUHHH BARCELONA for the weekend with the group. Mallorca was just a vacationary excursion...squeezing the last remaining days out of beach weather. Now its nearly the end of October, Im going to France and the Netherlands for over a week during "fall break" (and I know most of you would say, hasn't your entire semester been a break? Yes! but we've had to pay attention!) Anyway...

I'm anticipating a launch for blogabroad.com, of video and text from my experiences in the Iberian Peninsula and elsewhere, unfortunately Im desperate for space on my hard drive to edit said videos. Most vexing. will post more later. I promise. I swear...we'll see.

I hope Grecian Turkeys are tasty!

Hello dear friends, I'm writing to say that this will more likely than not be my last post for 12 days or so. My abroad program includes extensive study/trips throughout the mediterranean and as of tomorrow morning I will be off to Greece and then Turkey for a 12-13 day marathon of travel and wonderment! We start off in Athens but only stay there 1 night before we board a small cruise line and cruise that mo'fo' all through the Greek Isles. I'm particularly excited for Crete but we go to them allll, including Ephesus for which im very excited. We're supposed to swing by the Virgin Mary's house but I don't think she's going to be home. Santorini is supposed to be incredibly beautiful, it's a good thing I'm going to have my handycam glued to my palm! After we go through the isles we return to Athens for a day or so, then head to Istanbul! I'm particularly excited for this because Turkey is the only country I'm going to this semester I haven't already visited in previous European extravaganzas. Anyway, a friend sent me a picture she took of me during our visit to Segovia and I think it really captures the essence of my trip so far haha.



Anyway, i hope you are as excited as I am, are you?! HUH?!? PS I will soon be the official European Correspondent for AAA (or Amanda Across America) and I'm very excited about that as well. Things are going well. I'm staving off the plague that other people on my trip seem to have caught, its not the Black Plague though...they're sitll alive and kicking so I guess its really more of a Grey Plague. Yeah that sounds about right. Peace.