First and foremost, I owe you all my deepest apologies! I fear that I have abandoned this blog in the past two weeks. It won’t happen again! I promise. Now, let me catch you up on life.
I fell down some stairs and bruised my elbow. This was about a month ago and it has just stopped hurting. Here’s me all goofy with my lovely sling.
I turned 21 on May 31st and have yet to show you photos! Here are just a few from my birthday picnic. It was such a fantastic celebration. All of my lovely friends brought food and we sat on blankets and ate delicious dishes and talked and laughed and twirled in circles and generally had a good time (which may or may not have been influenced by the sangria my lovely friend Ada brought).
The whole picnic event was organized by my darling boyfriend, Kenneth. He did all the work and I just got to show up and have a fantastic time. Isn’t he wonderful? I celebrated for three days, two cakes, and one (or four) giant daiquiris! I wish I could tell you about all the bars I’ve been to now that I’m 21 but honestly, I’m saving my pennies right now. I leave for London in less than two months. Yikes.
So far I’ve received my new passport and am about halfway through the visa process. I hope to send in the paperwork for the visa tomorrow. It should take about a month to get my visa/passport back to me so the sooner the better! I bought my plane ticket a few weeks ago! I leave September 1 at 6:40 pm and arrive in London on the 2nd at 7:05 am. I am so excited and so nervous. Rest assured, there will be a post dedicated to study abroad in the future. Plus, I’ll be blogging from London all fall (stay tuned for cool giveaways).
The other day I did something I’d never done before! I walked across the bridge to Georgetown!
My fellow ambassadors (Jefferey, Kay, and Rainier) and I, walked from the Rosslyn Metro station across the bridge, through Georgetown to the Foggy Bottom Metro station. It was so much fun to walk across and see the kayaks. I’ve lived in the area my whole life and I can’t believe I’d never done that. I highly recommend MU students to put that on their ‘to do’ list. Plus, once you’re over the bridge and in Georgetown there are a ton of awesome shops (American Apparel and Annie Creamcheese) and yummy places to nom.
I’m going to wrap up this post with some Fourth of July photos. Luckily, living on campus means there are fireworks (literally) in your backyard. The golf course right next to Marymount hosts a firework show ever Fourth. Kenneth and I had a little picnic and watched the fireworks right on the back porch of the Main House.
See you soon!
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