My FIRST blog entry... am I a NERD?

Alright everyone here is my blog.

OH MY GOD. Get excited, because it is here dear friends and family, that you can keep up with my busy/studious(ish)/country-hopping/ job-searching/ amazingly uncoordinated life. Pretty much the plan is: I travel the world, comedy (and sometimes serious things) ensue and you get to hear about it.

My initial travelling abroad adventure was quite recent. I was lucky enough to spend a month in Europe this summer (my first time!). I travelled to Prague, the Dalmatian Coast (specifically Dubrovnik, Korcula, Hvar in Croatia), and in Hungary (Budapest and rurally). Pretty much amazing. Here is just a sampling of pictures below. (For the full albums look here: Prague, Croatia, Hungary).

Dining with Irish people from our hostel in Prague on the first night.



















The view from the sobe (apartment) we stayed in in Korcula, Croatia.















On a tram in Vienna (day trip) with some of the girls from the U of M program that took me through Hungary.

Anyways, my main reason for starting this is because I hope to be spending the winter semester in Istanbul, Turkey studying at Bogazici University. Right now I am waiting for my application to process and in the meantime I get to anxiously worry about logistics (how will I pay my Ann Arbor rent from halfway around the world? will I get accepted? how do you even pronounce Bogazici??). And until I am accepted I can't really start planning anything. Wa! Wish me luck.