Freedom, Holland, and Belgium!

I haven't blogged in a really long time.  Mostly because Blogger changed the layout and I couldnt figure out how to do it! haha I hope everyone is doing well! Here is what I have been up to!
I had 3 weeks of classes left after spring break! They went by really fast! We had a couple practice test in listening, reading, writing and speaking.  I did well in all of them! Classes finished and everything went well! I feel like I really improved over the last 6 months!
The week after classes finished I hung out with my friends.  A lot of them had to leave :( Which was really sad.  The last night we all went out we went to Chat Noir.  It was a fun night out! Very sad at the end.  That weekend I said good bye to a lot of people!

The next week my friend Adam and I traveled to Holland and Belgium.  Both were very fun!  Our hostel were pretty good! They did not have air conditioning and it was very hot! We went on a pub crawl and meet a bunch of cool people! We meet a couple from Canada, they just got engaged and they were the cuttest thing ever! In Belgium we drank a lot of beer, had some waffels, and bought chocolate! it was so good! :)

 Holland had some of the best cheese!

 giant clog!!

 yummy yummy fries

 wax museum

pub crawl! 

 manneken pis. a plastic figure of the "national symbol"

 beer!

 The kriek beer I LOVE was invented in belgium!!!

 delicious waffel!

 the actual statue of Manneken Pis. a women changes his outfit a couple times a month

 this is a cannon left by the dutch in 1600. noone knows how it got stuck in the groud!

we watched some candy spinners! it was so cool to watch them make candy!

I will post one last time after my mom and I travel! :) Hope you have all enjoyed reading my blog! Can't wait to be home!

Montpellier and Nice!

What a great way to end my awesome spring break! Montpellier was so nice!  The train ride there was about 4 hours.  I slept most of the way but when I woke up it was crazy to see how much the landscape has changed.  It was so tropical looking.  Palm trees everywhere.  It was also pretty warm, even though it was cloudy!

The first day we hung out Emilys dorm and later went to the beer cave.  It is this little bar that has 100's of beers.  They had imported beers from all over the place! The first one I had was called Banana Bread.  It was pretty good, I couldnt really tast the bananas  but it was good! The next one I has was a chocolate beer.  It was really good. You could really taste the chocolate! Yum! 

The next day we toured around Montpellier.  We saw this little park that gave us a really good view of the whole town.  Then we went shopping in the market and played on some playground equipment.  Then went and had some really yummy smoothies at a cafe and hung out in the town square!  It was so fun! We went back to the beer cave later that night and then I got a Kriek beer! Its my favorite, its a cherry flavored  beer! It tastes like juice! 

 one of the shelves from the beer cave

 yummm

 megan got weed beer... emily got a blonde

 chocolate beer!

 beer cave

 pretty thing.. haha i dont know what it is

 aqueducts

 one of the best sandwichs i ever had! it was the "american sandwich" just had 4 beef patties and fries in it, and yes i ate it ALL

 doing a hard work out

 yum! fraise and banane smoothie!

 so good!

kriek beer

NICE

Nice might be one of the most beautiful places in the world!! I love it.  The first night we walked around and ate a pasta lounge.  Then we hung out on the beach and later got some icecream! We had a couple drinks at bellas house with her Spanish friends.

Friday we toured around Nice.  We went up to the "castle" which is just a waterfall and an amazing view of the city.   Unfortunately, the waterfall was not working :( but we got some awesome pictures and saw the port.  Later meet up with some of bellas friend and explored more of Nice.  Later that night we went to a hostel and had some drinks with all the study aboard students.

Saturday was about 75 degrees, so we spent most of the day on the beach. We got really burned!  We had an early night because we were all feeling a bit ill from the burn! :(  

Sunday we had to leave, but we explored the farmers market and bought some strawberries.  We ate them by the beach then caught the train back to Nancy. It was 9 hours long! 

 right outside bellas house

 the sea!

 really bad photo fo the waterfall

 megan, bella, megan, margo

 waterfall (broken)

 cactus ice cream?

 beer, black olive, tomato and basil ice cream....

 running into the cold cold cold sea

 Italian pizza

 best strawberries ever

 lots of waves

 so beautiful

 feel the burn!!!!

standing by the falls.. haha

yum, strawberry and chocolate!

MUNSTER :)

Munster was so amazing! I loved it! Judiths family was so nice.  Getting there was a bit of a hassel.  I had a train from Nancy to Luxembourg, and I had 3 minutes to change my train to Munster.  I got off the train and looked for my next one and couldn't find it.  So I missed it. :(  I ended up having to take 4 different trains to get there and got there 4 hours later than I was supposed too.
The first night I was there we had a "spinach cake" as Judiths dad said.  It was a spinach pizza.  I usually do not eat things like that, but I was pleasantly surprised. It was pretty good!  After I meet her sister and we played some Skip-bo!  Judiths friends came over later and we went to a bar.  We had 1/2 priced cocktails! They were yummy.  We were going to go out to a club but I was too tired.
The next day we had such a nice breakfast! Buns and hot chocolate!  Later that day we went to the farmers market and down town for shopping! Later that day I went to a restaurant with her family.  I had lamb and greens beans and potatoes.  Her mom came back with us and we played more skipbo! We had an early night on saturday.
Sunday was really fun! Again a yummy breakfast.  We rode bikes to the zoo and these old houses.  They were so intresting.  It was fun to see how people used to live a couple 100 years ago!  I got a free candle from the man who had the bees!  After we went to the zoo! We saw dolphins, seals, elephants, monkeys, and a lot more!  We just hung out and had a family dinner of lasagna.
Monday I got to go to a German high school with Judith.  It was intresting even though I could not understand anything!  My train back was fine, caught all my trains!

 munster church. the 3 cages were where traitors were hung and shown for the town.. creepy

 town of old munster

 my lamb and green beans!

 old wooden shoe maker

 peacock!

 really dark, but were by a tiny door! people back then were my size

 raisin bread

 bees!

 sea lions

 dolphins

 funny monkeys!