August 2012
1 post
One Year Later.
This time last year, I was stepping on a plane to head off on the greatest adventure of my life.
Three months.
All of Europe.
You better believe I was excited.
But now, looking back, I’m even more grateful for the opportunity I had. Those three months provided so much for me. They gave me a straight dose of reality and of the world, along with heaping helpings of ridiculously fun...
June 2012
1 post
February 2012
2 posts
“We get very few of the true images in our heads of the kind I am talking about,...”
– Robert Penn Warren, All The King’s Men
“If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of...”
– J. K. Rowling
January 2012
1 post
Breaking and Entering
This last weekend, I was visiting my brother in Nashville. While I was up there, I went to visit a friend on Monday. On the way back to my brother’s apartment, I was on the phone with my mom. I pulled into his apartment complex, parked, and took two steps out of the car, still talking to my mom, when I realized I didn’t have my keys.
I turned around and looked in the window of my...
December 2011
1 post
“But those who love us gratefully do not see us or judge us by the world’s...”
–
Dr. Jim Gardner
November 2011
1 post
One Day Left
So I have been absolutely horrible about posting on here. However, since I have a few extra weeks tagged on to Christmas Break with not much to do, there might be a few posts about the trips, the travels, and all of the ridiculous things that happened to me during my time in Europe.
But here’s a post for the end of the trip. There is now only one day left.
One Day. In Europe.
It is...
September 2011
5 posts
WatchSpafriland - One Week Free Travel (September 25-October 1)
This might be crazy, but I’m doing it. I won’t bore you with all the ridiculous connections and transfers and crazy hours, but here goes:
Sunday - Train from Verviers to Brussels. Spend the night in the Brussels airport.
Monday - Fly from Brussels to Dublin and train to Cork.
Tuesday - Dublin/Irish country side. Tuesday night...
UK Tour - The Next 10 Days of My Life
Schedule:
Sat 10 arrive London, go to Oxford, night in Oxford
Sun 11 morning in Oxford, afternoon in Stratford upon Avon, night in Stratford upon Avon
Mon 12 depart Stratford upon Avon, late morning at Warwick Castle, after travel to Edinburgh, night in Edinburgh
Tues 13 Edinburgh
Wed 14 depart Edinburgh, afternoon in Lake District (Beatrix Potter Farm, Wordsworth Cottage), night in Lake...
USA vs Belgium - Our Fifteen Seconds of Fame
Before we left for Europe, someone told me that Belgium would be playing the United States in Brussels on September 6.
And I would be in Belgium on September 6.
Therefore, I HAD to go.
Through the help of several people, I got the trip approved and curfew extended so that we could go to the game.
Almost everyone in our program went on the trip, so last Tuesday we all hopped on a train to...
Brussels
Last Saturday, our whole group traveled to Brussels. An hour and a half train ride, I spent the time looking over my guidebook and planning out how I would see the city.
As a group, we started off going to the state cathedral. Basically the Westminster of Belgium, St. Michael and St. Gudula Cathedral is huge, and absolutely amazing.
Brussels, like many cities, has a ton of churches, all...
Bruges and Oostende
Today was nothing short of awesome. Bruges is the most beautiful city we’ve been to yet and is definitely true to its designation as the Venice of the North.
We explored the city for a good while with Aaron and then split off again. The city is ridiculously picturesque. Canals and greenery everywhere with cool little shops lining the streets.
After splitting off, our group went and climbed...
August 2011
7 posts
Liège
We started off the day worshipping with the church here in Verviers. It’s weird that we’ve been living here a week and haven’t seen the church members or even the auditorium yet.
I’ve worshipped before in a service where I did not understand a lot of what was said. When I went to Haiti, however, the guys on the mission trip always preached, and the church had someone who translated our words for...
Oh Amsterdam...
So Amsterdam was my favorite day yet. It was a day full of disasters and turning those disasters into an awesome experience.
First, we got off at the wrong train station in Amsterdam and ended up walking in the rain for like thirty minutes. And I just couldn’t find my umbrella that morning, and my jacket might not have a hood. But don’t worry. We got drenched at least two more...
Aachen
Aachen was pretty cool. You know, hop on a thirty-minute train to western Germany and explore a city with a cathedral dating back to Charlemagne. No big.
Except the train stopped on the track for about thirty minutes for some incomprehensible reason. Luckily, we had cows to keep us company.
We got there and toured the city and cathedral as a group with Aaron and Betsy and then went out on our...
My Great Big Adventure Through Verviers To The Top...
So…about My Great Big Adventure Through Verviers To The Top Of The City And Out To The Sheep And Horses To The Point Where The Road Became Unpaved.
Well, Davis and I decided it would be cool to just go exploring around the city. We had no set plan, just to wonder around, find cool things, and get a feel for this new place we are living in.
But there are hills in this city.
And we had to get...
Week One Recap
Well I’m about finished with my first week in Europe, and it has been amazing! So here’s a recap:
Everything went really smoothly Monday—as in my car didn’t start when we got ready to head to the airport, a thirty minute to an hour flight delay then another hour sitting on the plane waiting for them to fix another problem (Nap time!). However, we eventually crossed the Atlantic and landed in...
Because I'm Leaving For Europe Tomorrow and Can't...
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard
“Do not follow where...
So...a Blog?
I have finally given in.
I made a…blog.
I don’t know exactly what this will be. I mostly created it so that I can share stories and experiences from my semester in Europe this fall. So it might become a boring journal, or a collection of funny stories, or a quote book, or a compilation of all things Jonathan Davis. We will see!
