Sooooo its been almost a month and a half since I wrote last... I'm sorry to all those people that check my blog every week haha which is no one.
But anyways the last month has been eventful to say the least. The month of March was full of parties and traveling. It started off by the study abroad group here taking the kids studying abroad here to a trip to the eastern parts of Latvia. We went to a town called Vidzeme, it's about 2 or 3 hours away from where I live by bus. It was a really cool trip though, it started with us visiting a huge castle that was in the next town outside of Riga. The castle was pink haha it was pretty funny because all when we got there everyone was like, "this is a castle?????" It looked more like a old mansion, but they called it a castle that a German family occupied in the early 19th century. So that was pretty cool. After that we went to the oldest church in Latvia. It was built in the 15th century I think. It was a cool church, very small but interesting non the less. I think it was a Lutheran church. The inside was pretty standard, there was a statue of god, and then a pretty big cross with jesus on it behind where the priest stands.After that wonderful church we went to a castle, a real castle, it was another town that I don't remember. The castle was huge, it was red brick and had a huge silo in the middle for a watch tower. It had to other smaller towers around it for protection I think that there was 5 of those. The whole thing was on top of the highest point of the area that it was in for advantages when it came to battles. Its crazy to think that they thought that much about where they built their castles back then... I never really thought about that kind of stuff. It was very interesting though. After that it started to get dark and we went to another castle that was the town hall of the city that we were staying in. It was more modern I would say and looked like a castle that you see in pictures, but it was cool to because we got to see the sunset of the Latvian forest. It was b-e-a-u-tiful ha.
After all the site seeing we did all day we finally arrived at our hotel, there was about 70 of us that went on the trip so we pretty much had the whole hotel to ourselves. It was awesome, so everyone started to party, and then later on we went to this club that wasn't very big. So when we go there with all of our people the place was packed. It was a good time though. The night ended around 3 or 4 and we had to be up at 9 to leave the next morning to see more sites of the day.
The next day..........
We went to ANOTHER castle haha. But luckily this one was the best out of any of them. It had towers, dungeons and a moat around it like a castle from cammelot or something. This one was built in the 14th century I think, and then the city built itself around it so its the center of the city which is cool to. After that we had lunch and then made are way to the biggest cave in Latvia... haha it was one of the smallest caves I have ever seen, so not to much to write about it, but the walls of it were really soft sand stone so people had wrote there names and things all over it. That was pretty cool, there was one that said it was from 1886. After the cave we made our 3 and a half hour bus ride home.
The Pink "Castle"
The castle on top of the hill ^^^^^^
Ok..... that was only the first half of the month... the rest of the month was much better....BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
For our spri
ng break here there was a bunch of us that wanted to travel. At first everyone wanted to go to Amsterdam, which I did, but then when it got closer some people changed there mind and went to paris. But we all flew to the same place for a day or two and that place was Brussels. The city was pretty amazing, the central square where all the parliment buildings and stuff are was the best on that I have seen yet..... the buildings were huge and covered with cold it was amazing. We also went to this place called the Atomium that's the picture with the big iron balls, it is actually the iron molecule i guess. It was huge tho and very cool. So we were only in Brussels for one night the first night, we couch surfed there. Which means that we met some guy online and stayed at his place for the night. It's really cool actually. It was free, and the guy was really cool. His name was Carlos from Venezuela, ha we drank some Venezuelan rum the first thing when we got to his place. He was a nice guy.
After Brussels we went to AMSTERDAM!!!
We left Brussels in the morning and took a bus to Amsterdam. The bus was about 4 hours and it wasn't bad because I met a guy from Texas, he was traveling the world in 90 weeks. So I talked to him for a while about that and then we just talked about life. It was nice to talk some "normal" enlish with someone. I swear my english is getting worse here because I never really speak with anyone that is good at english. Only my parents but thats only every so often. Anyways, we arrived in Amsterdam and the first street that we walked down was so crowded with people it was insane. I didn't think it was going to be that touristy, but it was. It was okay tho, because the place we stayed, another couch from a guy from there. And he lived a little outside of center so we got a way from it at least in the night. The guy that we stayed with was a funny dude, he had just got a tattoo on his arm of XXX because it is the flag of Amsterdam and he was born and raised there. The first night we went out with him to some over priced club and got our dance on. It really wasn't that bad, but the girls were definatley not as pretty as the girls from Riga :) haha. Anyways after that night we didn't really go out to much at night. In the days we would go to the museums and see the sights. Amsterdam is a really pretty city, there is canals all over and the roads are all brick and its cool. Ha but the weed is legal there so around every corner you turn there is shops that sell dope, its crazy "i guess" you just go in the back and you have a variety to choose from... its crazy. And the shops are everywhere.
Also they have the red light district, which is crazyyyyyyy... just prostitutes in windows offering themsevles to the people that walk buy... it makes you sad when you walk past them, because like something like 75% of them are human trafficed in from like eastern europe, where I live now. Ha thats how beautiful the women are where i am, that people have to transport them other places for people to see... haha. But anyways at night almost every window is full of a girl from around the world. ITs crazy.
But the museums that we went to were cool tooo haha, the Vincent Van Gogh musuem that was pretty cool seeing such a famous painter's paintings. But my favorite museum was the Heineken one haha. I got a bottle with my name on it that I'm pretty stoked about. And the museum in general was just interesting. Anyways thats all we did in Amsterdam. We were there for 4 days so it was plenty of time.
Then we went back to Brussles to catch our flight back to Riga. We got back to Brussels about 4 in the afternoon and our flight for Riga didn't leave till 6 the next morning. So we had to spend the night in the Airport, which sucked but it wasn't too bad I only slep like an hour and then when I got on the plan to Riga, I was out for the 2 hour trip.
I am Amsterdam<<<<<
The Red Light District!!
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So now, I am sick of writing. But this weekend continues, we are going to the capital of Estonia, the city is called Talinn. Then we get a cruise boat and go to Sweden, Stolckholm. Its gonna be awesome there is supposed to be 2000 students on the boat so its gonna be a partyy!!! I'll let you know how it goes though... And I'll try to write more because all I really do is travel an have fun here in Europe I should be able to update this thing....
Much love, and PEACE
From RIGA
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