A whole generation with a new explanation; people in motion, people in motion.

I've been checking Kim's blog daily to see exactly how much I suck at doing this. And I've reached my limit and am feeling sufficiently awful about myself so its time for an update! January basically passed me by before I even got a chance to get used to writing 08 on my homework, which granted, I am not doing a lot of, but still. School is no joke though. Classes are minimum three hours long and I have basically two a day so that means I'm in school quite a lot. And you're only allowed two absences a semester so that means I actually AM in school a lot. I only have classes Monday-Wednesday though, which is very very conducive for travel. When I'm not hitting the books, exploration is my top most priority.

Since my last post, my travels have closely resembled those of Miss Luong's. Friday a few of us braved what was quite possibly the scariest bus ride of our lives to the small medieval village of Eze for no real reason at all. What happens here is you just plan to meet at the train staions or bus depot and just get on see where it takes you. After a rather lengthy and awkward encounter with the bus driver we discovered we were in for a real treat. Eze was home to an amazing medieval fort and also "Les Jardins Exotiques." I had heard about these gardens in passing and how they are just absolutely beautiful and the plants are amazing and whatnot. The gardens were in fact, absolutely beautiful. But exotic? Meh. The only plants I saw were cacti. I come from the desert, you know? I was more impressed with the sculptures. Absolutely brilliant. The view (as always) was magical.


Saturday we spend the day living the high life in Monaco. Bus driver said to me in very broken English, "Monaco is bling bling!" How could we resist? With the weather on our side, we hurried there the very next morning. We visited the original Monte Carlo casino and enjoyed the real deal while the one across the ocean was aflame.
The place is ridiculous. Monaco in its entirety is 2 square kilometers. The WHOLE country. 2 kilometers. Its super clean and really fancy and absolutely beautiful. Our friend was right; Monaco just screams money. See examples below.


We also saw La Musee de l'Oceanographie which is pretty self explanatory, but it was extremely gnarly and probably one of the coolest things I've ever seen in my life. So cool in fact, that it was under the direction of Jacques Cousteau for like 20 years!

What followed was a nice leisurely and sophisticated lunch at Fredy's. All in all it was a fabulous day and a really great place, but to be completely honest it kind of creeps me out. It's fabulous for vacationing and indulging, but otherwise its really something else. Monaco has a 0% crime rate and a bajillion surveillance cameras EVERYWHERE. Every corner of the country. That's a bit strange, no? I don't know. I suppose I'm just not one for safety.

Other than that, busyness as usual. Hope all is wonderful.

XOXO