First Days of Ireland

Here’s the deal…. I’m in Ireland!!


I left Newark last Monday. I found a lot of kids from my program in the airport, it was nice to have met a few kids before I landed here. The flight over was amazing, since it was night I could only see the lights from the cities as we flew. It was beautiful.

It was a 6 hour flight and I tried my hardest to sleep but it was like trying to sleep on Christmas eve. We landed at the Shannon airport around 7 and it was still dark out! Which meant the bus ride to campus was so pretty cause the sun was just rising as we drove.

People told me the Ireland’s green but it’s REALLY green. It’s the middle of winter and the grass is still green! Like spring time green! I love it! On the walk to the grocery store I go across a bridge and you can see a huge green field then the hills in the back its breath taking.

I love the house I live in, there’s two floors with four rooms on each. My housemates on the first floor are all American and ¾ are from my program. My roomies on my floor are from Spain, Czech Republic, and France.

I was nervous the first day when my roomies moved in but they are cool. We’ve been making lunch for each other. The second day I made grilled cheese for lunch and my two roommates from Spain and Czech Republic hadn’t had it before so I felt so cool making it for them and introducing them to something “American”.

Here are a few photos of campus. I’ll have more pictures once I get the charger for my camera… I made the mistake of leaving it at home.

My very tiny but very awesome room

This is the path to campus

main campus!

walking into the village i live in

Laters,

Time To Fly

Right now I'm sitting in the airport waiting for my flight. I honestly don't see why I had to get here so early. The flight info online said to get here 3 hours before the flight and I was. And now I'm waiting. I'm waiting for my flight at 7 tonight. The longest part of check in was waiting in the line. Then I had to go through the security. Again it took longer to wait in line. And here I was stressing these last few weeks about making sure I followed regulations on everything and I passed right through. So now I've just got to wait. I anticipated this and brought books to read. Right now I'm reading The Crimson Petal and The White. It's pretty good so far... It's about a prostitute Sugar who lives in Victorian London and rises through society. So until my flight I intend to put a good dent in this book.
Laters,
TV

Phantom of the Opera

For those of you who don’t know… I have a HUGE obsession with Phantom of the Opera. I went for the first time with my family when I was in third grade. It for the kids on Broadway night it was the first time I stayed up really late and the next day my mum let us sleep in late and took us to school late. It was so cool! Then of course the movie came out in 2004 and it’s one of my favorite movies. Then I went three years ago for my mum’s birthday. My little brother and I skipped school for the day and went in for the manatee. Check me out.

And now I got the super smart idea to go see Phantom next semester in London!! How freaking awesome right! Not only is it going to be Phantom of the Opera but they’ll all have British accents! Super hot!!!! While I was looking for tickets I saw that there’s a sequel musical Love Never Dies. And I really want to go see that too. But it all depends on how much money I have. But those two are on the top of my to do list next semester.
I just love the music so much from Phantom! Here are my two favorite (yes I do have an addiction to posting music. Hehe)

^Phantom of the Opera^

^Past the Point of No Return^




Also on another London related note, I can’t remember if I poster or not. But two weeks ago I submitted my application for London Met and today I was on Craigs List looking for apartments for next fall. some of them are super cool, right now I’m just looking at prices, where they are, where the closest tube station is, and what it comes with. So basically I’m super excited for the fall.


Laters,

Song Time

First off-- Happy New Year everyone! I hope you make all your dreams come true!


Second off-- I thought I’d share a few songs that I’ve been writing to lately.

Third off -- I leave for Ireland in 15 day! Whoot! So be prepared for an excessive amount of pictures and good tales. I pretty much finished my packing and I’ve moved out of my room. The only stuff left in it is going abroad with me! Yay!

So now onto the songs, enjoy!











 



Laters,

New Years Eve

On the eve of a new year I’ve decided to do some thinking. I’m 20 years old, I know it’s not old. But it’s also not young. It was strange when I turned 20 this year, I realized I was no longer a teenager. There’s something about being a teen that lets you be immature while still growing up. Now I feel I need to think seriously about everything. I graduate in 2 years and I have to be able to stand on my own. I know I’ll be able to but it’s still intimidating. It’s like looking up at a huge mountain and you know that you have to climb it or you’ll be stuck where you are forever. So I’ve started climbing my own mountain this year. Before I’d simply looked up at that mountain, never attempting to climb it, yet I was planning what I’d do till I was 30. I had planned to work with the NYPD in the Forensic Unit, get a studio apartment in the city, and not get married till I was well past 30. And now… now I’ve realized a few things. First off I don’t know if I’ll live to be 30 so why plan so far ahead? This life is short. Tomorrow might be my last day here. Or I’ll live another 50 years. Who knows? One thing I do know is that I want to live a full life, however long it is. I’ve had friends come and go. I’ve attended a funeral for a friend in high school and it’s only now that I realized what I leaned from Tucker. Live life. Just two simple words but there’s so much that goes behind that. I realized that things have changed and my future has changed too so I’ve given up on my old plans. I’ll live where I’m supposed to. Work where I’m supposed to. And marry when and who I’m supposed to. It might be six months or six years. Either way I’ll be happy. Another thing I learned from Tucker was to dream big. So I’m dreaming big and making those dreams happen. I leave for Ireland in 17 days. A new chapter of my life is starting. I have blank pages that need to be filled. But I know this chapter will be short, 4 months short. Because after I finish the semester I will get on a plane and come back to the states but I have no intentions of staying. I’ll be back on a plane for London. I’ve come to terms with the fact that I no longer have a future in New Jersey. Things have changed and my new life starts in London. Another new chapter that will last as long as I want it too. I will only end it when I see fit. Because tomorrow today will be history, this year will be history. History is in the past, it’s only purpose is to get you to your current point, once you get there it serves as nothing but a story. You can’t change it so just accept it. I realize that I used to be so concerned with time, with wanting to grow up faster, with wanting to finish school as fast as I could. Time is no longer important to me because I know that everything will happen at just the right time and I’ll be ready for it at that time. On this new years eve I would like to shed my old skin, shed old fears, and leave behind burden I’ve carried. I want a fresh start. And I want to live. I’ll live life and be happy with everything that comes my way. I’ll thank God everyday for giving me another day to live and breath in the sweet air. I’ll count my blessings and be thankful for my family and friends. I’ll be thankful knowing that there are things coming my way that I can’t even imagine and I’ll be happy when I finally receive them. I’d like everyone to know that at 20 years of age I have finally decided that I don’t care what other people think and that I will live my life how ever I want, I will ignore naysayer’s and skeptics, I will remember those I have lost and live as if I need to live for them too, but I will be me and only me. I might never come back to New Jersey for more then a few weeks, and I’m fine with that. I might never have these opportunities again so that’s why I’m grasping them and holding on tight. I’m going to live like tomorrow will be too late. After all I don’t know when my road will end but I do know that I will have zero regrets.

The Kean I Know

Hi all. Happy Holidays.



So I thought I’d do this post. I’ve sort of been working on it for a while. The last feel weeks of school I’ve been taking my camera to class and I’ve been taking pictures of campus. So in honor of me moving out last Thursday here’s the Kean I know!

Heading toward the gym. nice trash cans right?

Cougars Walk coming out of the quad

These two pictures ore of the first snow of the year and my last snow on campus, I woke up the next morning and it had melted. But it was nice while it lasted!!

That's UC straight ahead and i just thought it looked soooo pretty lit up at night

The lovely view from my room hahahaha

um.... this is behind the library... yeah...

Crossing the street toward the new STEM building. It's such a nice place to have classes. 

I like the wheeely chairs

Walking up the STEM sidewalk/ looking over at main campus

Main Campus by Wilkins Theater

So there's the Kean I'll remember!

Laters,

Insert Title Here

I’ve been working on my paper for my Revolutionary Era Europe class since I got the assignment two weeks ago. All I have written is the intro and conclusion. Now mind you I have an outline to go with it… I just haven’t written it. Why? I have Quotes to back my points up. I have the research. I have more then enough nifty ideas to tie it all together. So what’s holding me back? I can’t come up with a title I find suitable. It’s one of my downfalls I suppose… I can’t write a paper without first giving it an epic title. I can’t write a book without giving it a mindblowinly epic title. Sure I’ll change it but it needs a title for me to invest my time in it. I feel that if something doesn’t have a title and I’m going to be investing my time into it then I’m sort of afraid that I’ll drop it and move onto something else. So now I’m trying to come up with a title for my paper or else i'll be leaving it till tomorrow night and i don't want to do that.