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Z is for Zero
I have so enjoyed this challenge and I know I will be so thankful to have these memories recorded here. Since I have ZERO words of my own left, I am going to leave you with one of my favorite quotes to wrap up this month of travel blogging...."If adventures do not befall a young lady in her o…
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Y is for You Were Made for This
I could talk about Young Life all day long. It started up at my high school during my Junior year and I was instantly hooked. Before Young Life I was missing my old church group back in the states and I was desperate to know God, to experience life abundant with Him.Young Life transformed how I a…
X is for Aix en Provence
I can't believe we are almost done with the A-Z Challenge!Today we're travelling back in time to 2005, to France, this time for a week's exchange program in Aix (pronounced the same as "X") en Provence. I was housed with one other girl from my class in the home of a local Fre…
W is for Warsaw
Sophomore year of high school was in a new school in a new country. I spent most of the first few months there sulking and stubbornly trying not to like it. But slowly my attitude changed and I started saying yes instead of no to the opportunities and friends that were all around me. One of my firs….jpg)
V is for Valentine's Day
Maybe this is too much for one week or even too much for one month.... but for Valentine's day, on the same trip I talked about here, we visited Dachau concentration camp. I'm not going to write a long post like my post on Theresinstadt. Mostly because this place disturbed me to my core bu…
U is for Under the Bridge
One of my favourite places in London is the Borough Market. This huge market is located underLondon Bridge, not to be confused with Tower Bridge:In case your planning a trip across the pond, and not planning to take me along as your personal tour guide, just hop off the tube at the London Bridge s…
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T is for That Time I Stayed in a Concentration Camp
My junior year, 2005, I traveled with 4 other students from my high school to the Czech Republic. We flew into Prague and spent just one day exploring the city.It is an absolutely beautiful city that I would love to go back and really visit- but that was not what we were there for. From Prague we…
S is for Side
Side (see-day) is in the Antalya province of Turkey and I traveled there with a group of friends my senior year of high school before graduation. Upon arrival in Turkey we purchased our visas at customs and then hopped on a bus to our hotel. I remember so clearly that feeling of freedom and indep…
R is for Rome
We traveled to Rome in February 2005 and we did it all! I know some people think Rome is too touristy but there's a reason it attracts such crowds.Rome was the center of the world for a time. The center of civilization, democracy, culture- everything. These days you have to look past the cro…
