"You can't buy happiness, but you can buy a plane ticket..."

Today I finished booking my plans for spring break and I couldn’t be more excited.  One of the best parts of the study abroad program in Newcastle is the one month long spring break that comes with it.  I will be visiting eight countries in four weeks.  For the first ten days of our break, our study abroad group goes on a Loyola sponsored trip to France.  There, we visit Paris, Montpellier, and Niece.  I have been to Paris once before during my sophomore year of high school, but I am still looking forward to going again, and am especially excited to see Nice which looks gorgeous.  From Niece, I fly to Belgium where I will meet a group of my cousins and two older brothers for a mini “cousins Euro trip.” We have been planning our trip through email chains since August and they are a few of my favorite people, every time we are together we have the absolute best time so I know without a doubt it will be a great week with them.  In Belgium we will visit Brussels and Antwerp and take a train to Amsterdam from there.  From our short two and half-day visit in Amsterdam we fly to Dublin, Ireland.  I had to cut my trip a day short in Ireland so I will only be there for a day, but I know we will make the most of it.  From Dublin I will say goodbye to my family once again, and take off to Berlin, Germany to meet with the four girls from my study abroad trip I will be traveling with, Melissa, Katie, Kori, and Jess.

            From Berlin, the five of us will take trains traveling to Prague and Vienna.  After a few days visiting there, we fly to Greece and take a ferry to Santorini and there we will spend the last week of our spring break relaxing on the Greek island. Although I couldn’t be more thrilled to visit these places there are still so many places I want to see.  A month seemed like a long time to travel, but with the amount of places we wanted to see space quickly ran up.  However we still have some time after spring break so we are hoping to cross a few more places off our list before our journey ends.  It’s a little scary how quickly our time is going by here, but I love every second.