THIS BLOG POST COMES TO YOU IN FOUR PARTS.
Part 1: Since I'm in a terrible mood today I thought, better way to cheer myself up than to complain about my life to a bunch of strangers? But, in case you still want to know about my Southern Europe trip I'll try and wrap it up fast.
Part 2: After Cinque Terre we took a bus to Tuscany where we went on an absolutely BRUTAL three day hike. OH MY GOD. SO HOT. SO MUCH UPHILL. Especially the first two days. Words can not describe how amazing it was to see the Rifugio after that hike. Some parts we weren't even hiking. We were climbing...and I'm clumsy. Those things don't go well together.
After Tuscany we took a nine-hour bus ride to France where it was absolutely beautiful. We camped there for a few days while we whitewater-rafted and whitewater-canoed. It was amazing. Absolutely freezing, but amazing. After that we prepared for La Tour Du Mont-Blanc, which is an eight-day hike we took through the French, Italian, and Swiss Alps.
La Tour was amazing. It was just so beautiful with such an array of different weather conditions and terrane, but it was so worth it. One day in particular was absolute HELL. It was uphill, then downhill, then flat, which is actually a pretty good day, but not while it was hailing and it felt like it was freaking January. We stopped for a while and I couldn't stop shivering. I actually broke down in tears. But there was also the good days. One of the last few days we started the hike going uphill in basically a blizzard, but it wasn't even THAT cold, and then it went downhill in a blizzard and we had a snowball fight. It was awesome. Then as we were going down the mountain it quickly changed from snowy to muddy and we slipped and slid in the mud forever. Then it got sunny and we reached our Rifugio HOURS before we thought we would.
After La Tour we went to Chamonix, a city in France that is absolutely gorgeous. It was so beautiful. Then we took several trains to Paris where we finished our trip in style. Overall the entire trip was one of the most amazing experiences I've ever gotten the chance to do. Seeing all of those beautiful places was just absolutely incredible and I'll be so lucky if I ever get to do it again. If you want an even more detailed itinerary of my trip I'll put it here.
Part 3: NOW that I'm done blogging about my trip, I get to vent. School this year is so difficult. I come home from a 7-hour day of school to a mountain of homework, including essays, books, tests to study for, and more. And on top of that I'm helping to plan a weekend up north for next weekend for forty teenagers and I'm being swallowed by requests from teachers, friends, presidents (of clubs and stuff), and parents. I have no idea how I'm going to get it all done. I'm also taking three English courses this year, and they're difficult. This is all not mentioning that I have a (small) social life, babysitting, I'm addicted to the internet, and chores. I swear, I'm going to have to be fucking wonder woman this week.
Part 4: I'm a sophomore this year. My school has this program for sophomores called MYP (My Personal Project). MYP is completely optional and, admittedly, fairly pointless, but a couple of juniors recently talked to all of the sophomores about the projects they did last year, and that got me thinking, "What if I turned NaNoWriMo into my MYP?" Imagine how BADASS I would sound standing up in front of a bunch of people saying. "I wrote a novel in a month." I'd feel like such a bamf.
Anyways, for those of you who don't know, NaNoWriMo is national novel writing month where the goal is to write fifty thousand words in a month. Yeah. It's hard. I don't even really have a story in mind. I have a title that i absolutely adore, and I'm kinda trying to work off of the title to build a story, which is proving to be fairly difficult. I've come up with a few characters and just some funny little lines, but no plot yet...I'M WORKING ON IT, OK? I'll get there, but it'll take a while.
Also, sorry I haven't posted recently. I've been drowning under my workload, but I'll try to post more, and if not...sorry, do you want a fucking umbrella? K...toodles.
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