News.

recent new york lens blog shows images from bosnia-not where I'll be doing research, but tied up in the same/similar issues. take a look, here.

Also, news from the hague on Mladic's case: read more here.

Ca$h

Today I opened a charles schwabb account. This is monumental in my eyes. For some reason, only real adults have accounts with charles schwabb, only adults who have the potential to buy stocks and make investments, things I have no intention of doing anytime soon. It turns out, however, that they have a fabulous checking program, especially for us globe trotters: no atm withdrawal fees (globally), no exchange rate or currency conversion fees, no nothing. I suppose trading stocks means you can make your money in other ways than nickel-and-dime-ing the little guys like me. So now I have a means of transporting money around the globe, from the us government into my bank account. Its making things seem more real. It is funny to me that something as simple as opening a new bank account makes traveling abroad seem more plausible, or just more determined to happen. Its hard because as of right now everything, all my planes, my date of arrival, what Ill need, are just words floating around in emails or my head, archived and existing only in gmail's endless memory. I have no plane tickets, no place to stay, no books. Some of you may gasp and shake your heads with concern, but the tickets are in the process of being approved and you apply for a visa after getting there. Lets just hope everyone keeps checking their email. Oh, how did the world function before the internet?

Well, I'm off to the toy store to make the big bucks (ha ha). Check back often! I promise to be rambling off joys and muttering frustrations.

Emily

watch!

My classmate Jacob made an awesome documentary for his final project. It is amazing and I think will help people understand the places and things i was learning about while overseas. Here is a link. This is just a snippet of the documentary.  CLICK HERE!

Street Markets!

Hassan II mosque in casablanca! 

photo credit: sarah stites

Fresh squeezed juices, left to right: banana-avocado-orange-avocado

(emily and madeleine)

photo: sarah

Katie and I at the port in Marseille, France

Photo by : Mad!

Donuts in Marrakech, they were sold to us on palms! Too hot to handle :)

Bonjour!

I am writing from Morocco! We've been traveling through morocco, casablanca and then Marrakech. Our hostel is beautiful!!!

before morocco it was paris-> Marseille->barcelona

more photos/details coming soon!!!

Miss you all

love emily

Well, i have lots to write about. i have been super sad since my program ended on monday. I have to say, it is going to be a big readjustment. I know, though, that in many ways the last 3 months have been super surreal, but i have meet amazing people and seen amazing places. After spending 3 months with the same people everyday it is hard to imagine not ever seeing everyone in one place again. I had a super talented group of people on my trip and when everyone was giving their presentations i was blown away, but mostly i was really proud! 

Monday morning I flew out of zagreb and slowy our group shrunk till i was left in vienna for a night on my own before flying to paris to meet katie and mad. Right now i am waiting to board my flight there.

Vienna is a pretty city, with a million museums and pretty buildings. 

Here are some of the things i saw:

"The Kiss" By Klimt 

Bodi Bill- a band i think from germany

The Hundertwasser house 

almost the end.

tomorrow night i leave belgrade and i am so sad. I have really fallen in love with this city and it is hard to imagine that i may never come back. There is something so comfortable here. i am going to miss the stray dogs, the old men playing chess, the burek and pancakes on every block. Last night i was at the theatre i am interning with and the women there told me to always feel free to come back, to consider DAH theatre my theatre home. It was quite sweet of them.

Friday night we were hanging out with some friends from here and it was so cute. They told us it seemed so natural that we were in belgrade, like we had always been here. We were sitting in the fortress, watching where the river sava meets the danube. I don't think I could ever imagine that happening, going halfway around the world and finding people you feel like you have been friends with forever. I think that this trip will mean all sorts of different things once I am back home, and I am curious how i will remember all the details.

Well, I have a 40 page paper to finish by tonight, so I should be off...

ciao ciao

emily

Post What?

{the above photo wasn't taken by me... but it is  nice photo, it is from the handsome furs concert i wrote about it the post below...}

We had been keeping our apartment relatively clean until we all had to start writing our papers, at which point it has quickly spiraled downward into a mess of computer cords, internet plug ins, books, socks, empty bitter limun cans and dirty coffee cups. Earbuds and pillows and last years ISP projects add to the mess on the floor of the room we once called a "living room". Now i would call it the room of endless hours of typing and frustration. We took a break and went to another concert last night, but about a half hour into I headed home for bed. I felt a migraine creeping in and I couldn't understand why. Perhaps too many hours at the computer?? Maybe the fact I am stressed for no good reason? I'm not sure, but a good nights sleep helped and now I am up working again. Good thing there is always time for a break for pancakes oozing nutella, hazelnuts, and bananas, or a big piece of flaky Burek. Food is the best excuse to get out and about, however, between sitting around typing a paper all day and eatig greasy food I am probably creating the perfect circumstances for a self-induced heart attack. Good thing this paper is due in 10 days! 

The band we saw last night was "post-rock" I have never understood all these music genres. But I always wonder what comes after "post", once we are past post rock and post modernism and the postal system what do we have left??

anyway! this was just a silly rant, and I am really do just fine, but am having trouble focusing... however, this is typical for the end of the school year and I am sure it will all pan out just fine. 

{handsome furs, take two, this girl was INTENSE!}