Hannah & Julie
roommates, technically adults, writers on the side.
Last week I was sitting in the library and my phone buzzed. It was a text from Hann. Several texts, actually. This is what they said: Sept. 24, 11:13am: Found a new coffee cart. Sept. 24, 11:13am: Vanilla-hazelnut flavor Sept. 24, 11:14am: Styrofoam cups which isn’t my favorite aesthetic Sept. 24, 11:14am: But this shit …
We’re heading towards the one-month semester marker, and this is where I usually start to get overwhelmed. I am overwhelmed. Is everybody overwhelmed? It seems like everyone I run into on campus is always just slightly out of breath. Hey, how are you? I’m great, SO busy though. Let’s get coffee sometime if I’m not …
Big news, guys, this blog is turning 2! In blog years, that means it’s 21. We (Hannah and Julie) are also 21, so all three of us are going to the bar as soon as we’re done writing this post. (Yes, we can now write about going to the bar without tarnishing our reputations to …
Peeps, E girls, and the Big Wiz—this one’s for you. I’m twelve years old, and I am deliriously happy. It’s a summer night at the Eliopoulos’ house. All nine of us are in the bonus room. My flannel American Girl sleeping bag is slowly turning into a sweatbox, but I don’t care. (Caitlin and Kelly …
Dammit, you guys, I did it. I blinked. I blinked, and it’s all over. I’m back in the states and happily overwhelmed with the rush of familiarity and the time difference. I’m going to leave you with the last thing I ever wrote in Ireland. I’m sitting in my gate at Cork Airport, waiting to …
“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” –Paul Theroux Friends, this is my last post before I leave for home. (If you remember that I used this quote to start my last post before I left for Spain, ten points to your Hogwarts house. If you’re not sure which Hogwarts …
There’s nothing quite like the surge of nostalgia you get when you realize you’re doing something for the last time. You’re sitting in a booth of your favorite pub surrounded by everyone who means a lot to you, and it hits you that this is the last time that these people will all gather together …
“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you feel comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” -Clifton Fadiman My second week in Spain, I decided to travel from Granada to Madrid to spend a few days with my cousin Kristina. (For those of you who have …
I returned home yesterday from a two-week Eurotrip. It began in Cork then moved on to Granada in Spain, Berlin, Thessaloniki, Athens, some Greek islands, and Rome. This trip has been a long time coming; on orientation day, my first day in Cork, we were handed a schedule for the semester and told that we …
I chose the enormous picture at the top of this page because it sums up a pretty big portion of how my friends and I have been spending this semester: Being huge idiots and sticking out like sore thumbs. Recently, Hannah and I realized something cool about our time in Europe. For five months of …