Hey, hope things are going well back in Texas; I'm starting to miss it a little. It's been a busy couple of weeks here, I've traveled a bit and had a huge paper due yesterday. Everything is done though and I am very ready to go on Spring Break.

Holland was a lot of fun, although Amsterdam was certainly a shock. I've got a couple of pictures up on Flickr. Amsterdam was a very pretty town but it seemed dirty/degenerate. We went to the Rikjsmuseum, which was very impressive and saw both Rembrandt and Van Heyden exhibits, both of which I enjoyed. I went to the Van Gogh museum on Saturday, but they had already closed. I spent most of the weekend just walking around town and looking at different sites; there were some really cool parks and statues. The city is laid out with rings of semi-circular canals so most roads parrallels a canal, which made Amsterdam both easy to find your way around and pretty. We got back and last school week was largely uneventful. We stayed in a Hostel called the Shelter which was quite a bit different than I expected. It was actually quiet, which was welcome but the building itself wasn't very nice nor clean. I had a good time though.

This last weekend was a lot of fun too, me and some other guys from the hall went to York on Saturday and Durham yesterday (both in the UK). York was a very pretty and ancient town, where the Romans had been and there was quite a bit of historical stuff to see. We went to an Evensong service in the York Minster, which is the largest Medieval building in Britain. The Minster was awesome and immense, though somewhat covered by scaffolding. That night we hung out in York and went out with some people we met at the hostel for St. Patrick's day. Durham was cool too, there was a pretty interesting castle and then a beautiful cathedral. We couldn't really walk around inside it because services were going on (it was Sunday morning) but were able to see most the building nonetheless. I have a couple of pictures of both Amsterdam and Durham that should be up.

I am very excited about spring break (and in a little trouble for not telling my parents my plans); so here they are. Tomorrow (saturday) the Baylor group is taking the train to Oxford, where we have a tour of C.S. Lewis' house. We are staying in Oxford and hanging out in the town and university on Sunday. Later in the day Sunday, we are going to London and staying at Bayswater Inn near Kensington Park for the next 5 nights. We are going to see the sights Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday then take day trips to Canterbury, Cambridge, and Salisbury. On Friday, I am flying out of London Stansted to Venice, Italy. I am going to Venice with another guy from Baylor, Blake, and we are meeting two of my friends from Melville in Venice. The plan is to stay in Venice Fri. and Saturday night. On Sunday, we are going to take the train to Naples and stay there Sunday and Monday night. Tuesday morning, we are going take a ferry from Naples to the Island of Ischias to the city of Forio. We are staying there through Friday night, then going back to Naples, where we will catch the train and work our way back to Venice, stopping in Rome either on Good Friday or Saturday. As it is, I don't think we can get rooms in Rome over Holy Week, but it will still be really cool to see. I am flying from Venice back to London on Easter Sunday. The trip is going to be awesome, Croatia and Morocco were both deemed to dangerous or inconvenient because of language and lack of anyone that had ever been to either place before. Anyways, hope things are going well back home; I miss ya'll!

Hey, its a beautiful Friday afternoon and I am sitting in the library; classes and reading assignments are really starting to pick up. I still like my classes and schedule though. I'm doing well, staying busy, and still like it here. In my last post I wrote that I would be potentially going to the rugby game in Edinburgh, however a group of us last minute decided to go to a Dave Matthews concert in Glasgow. It was an acoustic concert, so Dave and Tim Reynolds were alone onstage with just their guitars. The concert was incredible, the hall it was in was pretty small and Dave really interacted with the audience. We ate at a restaurant right next to the concert beforehand; the sign said it was a casino, and thats what we expected, but it ended up being just a restaurant. Anyways, Dave was sitting at a table two away from ours, so we got to see him and Tim Reynolds beforehand, which was pretty cool. After the show, we walked some around Glasgow (not quite as nice as Edinburgh) and went to a couple of different pubs. After much difficulty finding a place to stay, we finally found a room.

This past week has been pretty uneventful, just class and hanging out around St. Andrews. I don't think I'm going to do anything significant this weekend, I may go on a hike on the Fife Coastal path tomorrow or I may just hang out. Next weekend me and some guys I have met in Melville are going to the netherlands, flying into Amsterdam on thursday and back to edinburgh on sunday. You can find some very cheap flights here within the EU, which is nice, and the University has a travel service that books flights and stuff without charge. I am in the process of figuring out what I want to do over spring break. I think I will either go to Morocco and visit Casablanca and Marrakesh (work on that arabic!) or fly to Croatia and visit Croatia and Greece. In both places the exchange rates make life much easier and both promise a ton of fun. I think me and one or two other guys from Baylor are going to travel together. Let me know if you have any thoughts or suggestions on spring break, I'm going to be booking something next week. I really want to visit Rome also, and haven't yet ruled it out, but the week I would visit is Holy week (Easter) so it is packed! Lots of fun but can't get rooms. Well, I'm out but hope things are well at home and keep me in your prayers.