Amsterdam

So I'm back from my whirlwind travels around different major cities... it was an incredible and crazy two weeks and I got to see so much cool stuff! I am truly blessed to have experienced such an awesome trip. Now, though, it's back to reality and homework and other things, so updates will come in parts.

My first stop was Amsterdam. The friends I was supposed to travel with booked their flight tickets on the wrong day, so the trip started as a little adventure, but I managed to find some other DIS students who were going to Amsterdam and I tagged along with them. We had a really really good time experiencing the city, etc, and saw some really cool stuff. We went on a canal tour of the city in the morning (it was a great way to get our bearings and learn about the history) and then wandered around and found our way to the Red Light District. Later, we went to the Anne Frank House, which was where she hid during the war. The whole thing was very well done as you walked through the rooms guided by quotes from her diary. It was just really really cool. We went out to some bars and clubs on Halloween and had a really great time. They were a fun group of people, and I was lucky to get to see the city with them.

This was on the pub crawl-- you can't get as good of a feel of how many bars there were around. There were tons of people walking all around and the streets are lined with different places to go into. The girl in yellow is Allie, and she goes to Tufts.. we just met here in Copenhagen, though.
WOODEN SHOES! They were everywhere.
Amsterdam was really pretty in the fall with all the canals and changing leaves. These two girls are in my special needs class at DIS.

Canal tour! It was in 5 different languages, which was kind of cool. Here are a few friends (Danny goes to Tufts, too) with the English signs, haha.