a letter of love

Dear Morocco,

I will come again someday to watch your sunsets and sunrises, sleep on your sand and drink peppermint tea with you.

But you cannot make me eat your food. Ever again.

Love,

kim

adventures

hello hello! I´m still alive mom :)

We arrived in Barcelona last night right at sunset. It´s really huge, but the buildings are beautiful. It was death trying to find parking so I´m glad we got to turn the cars in early this morning. France was breathtaking. Every picture I took is a postcard.. and I was in >FRANCE for BASTILLE DAY! awesome. We had pizza and wine on the beach and watched fireworks- and shot some too in which i burned a good sized blister on my thumb. scar memories make good stories.

My butt has nevr been more sore from hiking across an entire coast of cliffs, but I´ve been getting enough nutrition from nutella and french bread. yumm. I missed Harry Potter last night.. no one here undersands me. I think I´m going to have to separate from the group to see it sometime today. We´re still searching for a hostel for one night right now, but we looked so tred at this hostel that they´r letting us use their internetz! i´m working it.

I bargained for a barcelona jersey for half price today. And got a postcard :) just getting my practice in for morocco. hopefully I´ll get internet again before I get back to frankfurt for another update.

till then

till then

Thpain

i'm alive

pamplona spells like pee, and is stained with sangria.

san sebastian is one of the most beautiful beaches i've ever seen. i teared up watching the sunset behind this lighthouse on an island. mm. Slept on the beach <3 Of course i forgot to get a postcard..

Arles is today. Can't wait to see where Van Gogh went crazy. I forsee myself doing the same, but we´ll see. It's so fun galavanting around Europe in a red mini cooper!!! almost like I'm home

"Last Day"

It's my last day in Trier for school and with classmates!

Tomorrow I embark upon an epic journey. I leave for Madrid tomorrow to meet africa matt and his international groupies. I haven't had time to get excited yet though, because I've been so busy finishing up with school projects and such. The semester wasn't too terribly productive for portfolio pieces, though I am walking away with a font that I designed all by my big girl self, and knowledge of how to print intaglio and that I don't really want to do it again. I also picked up a lot of German and am sad to leave it.. there has to be someone in Lawrence I can practice with..

anyway, since I won't be updating for a good 2 weeks and 1 day, and as a more elusive way of bragging, here's an itinerary of my next adventures:

8/7- meet in Madrid
9/7- get to Pamplona by the car we rent in Madrid and ¡run with the bulls!

12/7- leaving Pamplona late afternoon and driving to San Sebatian to hang out on the beach
13/7- driving to Arles, France making lots of stops along the way in Toulouse, Montpellier, Avignon, with lunch in Carcassone.
14/7- Bastille day in Marseille!
15/7- lunch in Cassis and hanging out on the beach- then to Nice for HARRY POTTERRR!!!!!!!!!
16/7- touring Monaco, then driving to barcelona making stops along the way-Antibes, Cannes, dinner in Avignon
17/7- Barcelona until our flight to Grenada at 17:30h
18/7- touring Alhambra then training it to Malaga for the ferry across to Morocco!

19-23/7- Morocco- Chefchaouen, Casablanca, Fes, desert trek, dune boarding, camel riding, hookah smoking, etc.
23/7- flying back to frankfurt for my last 4 days!!

America Day!

This is me in 1994 for our neighborhood 4th of July Bike Parade!

Not really, but only because I don't have my pictures from that long ago with me so I had to settle for a google image. I used to wrap my spokes with red, white and blue crepe paper, and tie ribbons from the handles. I never had a statue of liberty costume, but it's only now that I see how much I was missing.

I'm craving barbecue, sun, sparklers (or Wunderkerzen in german) and those ice cream cakes with the blueberries, strawberries and whipped making the american flag.. I'll see what I can do about it..