Fiesta en Espana!

More videos from Free Travel. This time they’re from our fun times in Spain and Barcelona!

We rowed a boat in Madrid!

Beautiful day in a Beautiful park in Barcelona!

Enjoying some Spanish Guitar!

We had a FANTASTIC time in Madrid and Barcelona! I highly recommend Spain to anyone!

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Party in Paris!

For the beginning of our 10 day free travel, my group (Me, Jenny, Madison, and Morgan) headed to Paris for three days FULL of fun!

One big thing in Paris is the amount of performers who get on the subway.

Our first night we hit up the Eiffel Tower, and it was BEAUTIFUL!

The second day in Paris we got to climb the tower at Notre Dame. What an INCREDIBLE view!

Outside Notre Dame:

Our last night in Paris we climbed to the top of the Arc de Triomphe for another incredible view!

The final morning in Paris, Morgan and I headed to the Catacombs, while Jenny and Madison went to Disneyland Paris.

After the Catacombs, Morgan and I spent a while at the Eiffel Tower just lounging about in the park enjoying life. It was wonderful!

From Paris, we went to Madrid, which you’ll have to wait for!

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Vienna Videos!

So, I know I am a bit late again, but here are some more videos from some life in Vienna! Some are very mundane, some are very entertaining (at least I think so).

Enjoy! More to come!

A short tour of our Deutschmeister Apartment!

Inside Stephansdom Cathedral. SO Magnificent!

A One Man Glass Bottle Orchestra!

One Night We Happened Across an event for Amnesty International, and felt like hippies in the park!

At the Haus der Musik, Zach found a piano to play!

We got to make some new friends from Lipscomb University, and enjoyed a day by the Danube River with them!

The Vienna Staatsoper!

When we went to Graz, we saw this very interesting man playing a variety of flutes in QUITE the getup.

One day, we found an amazing playground with an amazing zipline, so of course we played on it.

So there you have it. Everything we did in Europe up until our 10 day Fall Break. Hope you like em!

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Happy Halloween (Part 1)!

Well, everyone it is halloween. And while this post has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with anything Halloween related right now, I will give you this Halloween gift I have discovered just now.

Some of the guys on our trip have recently become childishly obsessed with playing Pokemon. Think about- the internet consistently dies at night, but after we have done things, so what do we do? Play Pokemon. Therefore, I am just beyond excited to have found this dubstep this morning. There will maybe be more Halloween presents through the day, or maybe tomorrow based on what we do today for Halloween!

Enjoy!

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London Calling

I know it has been OVER a month since I have been to London, but I have finally gotten all of my London Videos up. If you want to see pictures from London, head to my facebook, but I’ll probably add some favorites on here soon. I am going to ATTEMPT to be a more consistent blogger for the remainder of this wonderful adventure I am on! For now, ENJOY the videos I am posting!

Video of when we first arrived and were at our Hostel, the Equity Point Hostel.

When we THOUGHT we were seeing Changing of the Guard.

Actually at Changing of the Guard.

Hanging out at Trafalger Square!

At the veryyyy top of St. Paul’s Cathedral!

Across from St. Paul’s, getting a nice view.

In the British Museum, looking at one of my favorite exhibits!

Well, that’s all the videos I have for London! Hope you enjoy them! I’ll be adding MANY more videos from our adventure very soon!

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JoJo is BACK ya’ll!!!

One of my junior high obsession, JoJo- Leave (Get Out) anyone?- IS BACK with a brand new song and it is as HOT as her classic stuff!

Luckily, I have provided the song right here because it is wonderful.

Enjoy, and go dust off your old JoJo albums and give em a spin!

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In case anyone forgets…

This is a montage of all of Kelly Clarkson’s Idol performances.

The original, and still the best.

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American Idol: A New Beginning

Well if you are my friend or blog reader, you should well know that I have been in a love affair with American Idol since 2002, when Kelly Clarkson, the first Idol EVER, was introduced into my life!

Tonight is the exciting premiere of the brand new 10th season of American Idol!

Now, I won’t lie, last season was NOT the most exciting season of Idol. In fact, it was probably the least exciting season. However, no one can look past the superstars Idol has made in the past.

I used to keep an Idol blog; however, it simply got so boring I could not keep up. This season I will not keep a blog. I will still do my Idol spiral (ALWAYS) and probably post some blogs throughout the season on my thoughts.

I am mostly really excited to see what the changes are like in this season. Obviously, the new judges will bring an entire new feeling to the table. I am truly hoping someone with so much charisma and an incredible voice comes from this season that reignites the fire that is American Idol. The nation’s number one show can still make a comeback, I just am hoping it happens this season!

The original panel

Adding Kara Dioguardi

The panel minus Paula plus Ellen Degeneres (for one season!). Her stint was brief, and she was definitely funny, but she didn’t exactly add much to the show in terms of musical insight.

And then they went back down to three. With two new judges. Simon made his exit, Kara got out of her contract somehow, and Ellen decided she couldn’t be mean to people.

What will J-Lo bring to the table? Years of experience and an understanding of working the media spotlight. And Steven Tyler is a rock legend, so I hope he is really hard on performance and such.

I think Idol will go one of two ways this season: tank or bank. I’m hoping for bank.

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Country Strong

I saw Country Strong last night. I have been wanting to see it for a really long time, ever since I heard Gwyneth Paltrow was doing a movie about a battled country star, and Leighton Meester (from Gossip Girl) was in the movie! As the movie got closer to opening I began hearing mixed reviews about it, so I was starting to wonder, but I knew I would love it regardless.

I finally got to see it last night, and I was nervous as the movie began because I wanted it to be so good…

I WAS NOT DISAPPOINTED IN ANY CASE. IN. ANY. SENSE. OF. THE. WORD. Seriously, I love this movie so much. Script and story-wise it’s not like groundbreaking new material, but that’s not what it was about. The CHARACTERS were so amazing. I loved everyone in their parts, and I cared so much about all of the characters. And the MUSIC was so good. So good! They just really encased how even in country music there is a lot of different types of music.

I do not want to say ANYTHING about the plot because I want to give nothing away. Seriously go see it. It will make you feel so much. Even if you don’t like country music, you can love this movie. I want to see it again already. I want to download every song from it. I want to be a country singer (just not my type of voice though) because it’s just so good! Ahhhh!

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New Year, New Me

WELL if I didn’t just now choose the most clichéd blog title of the new year, I don’t know what I did.

Let’s be real, last semester I was extremely terrible at updating my blog. This semester will be different. At least I hope so. It will be very busy (2 plays, church, Spring Sing, spring showcase, getting study abroad things ready, school, social life, SGA, club, etc.) but it’s all worth it and I want to keep up with the blog!

I have only a few resolutions this year, and I think they are pretty realistic:

  • Keep up with blogging better
  • Get on a regular exercise routine (working on that)
  • Do all of P90X in the summer
  • Read 30 Books (stole that from my friend Melanie) (So far I’ve read two).

I can’t think of any others that I thought of before, which must mean they are not that important!

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