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So we went to Versailles it was beautiful, but outside the palace gates was such tragedy and violence. So you can't help but think about that when you are touring through it. It's a very ornate and intricately designed chateau. Meagen and i had a big fight with the tram that we paid 5 euro for to bring us.... within walking distance, to Marie Antoinette's estate.  I guess it's just for the lazy Americans that come to Versailles...aka us, but we really shouldn't have waited that long to get driven 5 minutes. and then the tram closed, so we couldn't get back to the chateau by the tram. It didn't matter because we had a lovely walk through the Peasant village and the gardens. It was really beautiful I can completely understand why she would want to build such a grand estate on that land. France is just beautiful in general, no wonder the French are considered so smug about it haha. It was also nice, again to have meagen actually tell me what's going in History and interesting tid bits. We Left on Tuesday after meeting up with the boys from the IPA and having yet another Taco night...which i had a dream about last night so...I think I'll have to bring a kit to Doolin! 

Well, That was a long time ago and I'm sorry that it took so long for me to get a little bit up, but I've been busy...err... right. haha We had a couple days after we got home from Paris to relax and enjoy ourselves and catch up on sleep. Then back to school this week, which really kind of kicked my butt. This is not real school, we have so much freedom to do other things, so going to class every other day is really nice, but not a very good routine. I got through the school week, and now I'm at the Dail listening to the Health and Children Committee debate on the misdiagnosis of Cancer for 9 women at a hospital in PortLaoise.  It's kind of crazy. They are bring up facts and wrong doings that are clearly stated in papers, e-mails, letters and reviews, but the Health minister is just dancing around it. And that's ok? I don't get it some times. 

Haven't gotten my mid-term exams back and I'm kind of nervous because I felt like I was writing like a 5 year old, and some people got like B +'s on all Three. Everyone else's schools take the b+ and turn it into an A because they grade a lot harsher and differently here. I HIGHLY doubt that Northeastern will do anything like that. I really doubt it.  So I might be screwed this semester in terms of grades, I mean not terrible grades, but not the 4 A's I really was hoping for. 

I'm going to Doolin to see Meagen and her friends that are on spring break this weekend, and I'm so excited. Everyone in my family has been to Doolin and now I'm going to be able to see everything they saw! I'm so excited to be spending time with Meagen again because I really don't think I'm going to be able to see her again for a while. Which makes me sad, but I'm going to see her in Greece again at the end of April. 

Sarah and I booked our flight to Switzerland last night, so we are actually traveling after our program I'm so excited and it's going to be such a great experience. Sarah and I really do well together in terms of traveling, well you can ask her if she agrees, haha, but I think so! I think things are going to work out in terms of getting to Greece and Italy. Now I just have to finish all of my papers and study for finals! which are in about a month! I have three papers due in 3 weeks and I've started one and almost finished it, I'm really just writing down a paragraph or two every so often and I think I'm about half way done, I'll probably finish it up on Monday. 

And the most important and most exciting thing that is happening next friday is that Daniel P. Sieger comes! Spence and Matt are coming over too! We have a lot planned for a little amount of time, but it's going to be such a good time, I've missed Dan a lot and it is going to be really good to see him. Also a little bit of Boston and home is a good thing for everyone.