Saturday, May 27, 2006
Letters from Europe - meeting a friend
Europe is... challenging. But before I get into that, I met an Indian lady today who teaches at a university in Texas, she has a really long complicated name that has Raj somewhere in there and she speaks quickly (but has very good English) and is very direct. My kind of lady, we had a lot of fun talking and she asked about some of my professors and I said LK! She said she met you at a conference so I told her I'd say hi to you and I also told her about my website so maybe I will get more info from her down the road and I can pass that on.
Okay, Europe... We have had quite the adventure, we have seen a bum fight (pretty serious with bloody faces, and we heard about another one with bottle breaking and stabbing near the train station just as we arrived), ah yes, arrival! we have missed three trains as a result of other late trains and road/subway construction which also put us in all the wrong parts of Paris (I thought I was going to die). I guess part of the reason I was so afraid is because a gang of three guys robbed/mugged us on the subway the day we arrived in Paris and that sort of ruined my peace of mind.
Later on in Rome our tour bus hit some lady crossing the street and I got minor whiplash (the victim of the incident managed to get up and hobble away in fear crying as the bus charged on) and speaking of tour buses! We got on one to visit the Sistine Chapel the other day but the line was so long (over 5 blocks) that we had to get right back on the bus! which took nearly three hours to complete the trip back to the train station before we left for Greece. Cutting to the chase... while I appreciate my dad's effort to "expose" us to Europe, backpacking style with trains and subways and no real plan or reserved hotels (which has also been problematic), I've been daydreaming of coming home and seeing my friends before moving to California. This will be a great trip to look BACK on :)
posted by Court @ 3:28 PM
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