Thursday night marks the end of the school week for me really because I’ve got no classes on Friday.
To be honest, though I’m going to have my hands full with a lot of reading – which I don’t mind – for the 4 classes I’m taking. I brought my design in for a new Wikipedia page and found it to be a good base to start from for something we can launch later this spring. It’s really getting exciting, especially because I’m getting “my hands dirty” in stuff that’s going to go to the British public. Obviously, they like look it over and approve it, but the first drafts are coming from me, which is awesome. I really don’t have that much planned this weekend though either, so I’ve got plenty of time to work on all this. I just realized that my birthday is in less than a week, turning twenty, the big two oh. When I can actually get a minute to sit down a reflect on this past year I hope that I find that I made good choices and had no regrets. No regrets is an oft-used mantra in my family, and I fully subscribe to it. I think 19 was just smashing, so the challenge is to one-up myself with this year.
The planning started in earnest for our Spring Break trips to Paris. As it looks now, the group goes to Brussels from Friday through Sunday. Sunday afternoon, a group of about 5 of us are taking the train from Brussels to Paris. We’re going to stay in Paris for about 3 days or so. On Thursday, we’re going to train to Normandy. We’ll spend Thursday afternoon settling in and on Friday a trip to the invasion beaches for a tour and whatnot. Then we’ll get a train back to Britain which has to go through Paris…so we’re goin back to Paris again, then the Eurostar back to St. Pancras International Rail Station. It’s all pretty broad right now. I’m going to look up train availability and Hostel availability and make this solid way to spend our spring break. I actually think a good amount of people from our group are at least starting their spring break in Paris, bit when I found a group that wanted to go to Normandy, I simply could not pass it up. I love history, especially military history and to me, the invasion beaches of Normandy are the “Holy Grail” of my avocation. I’m just getting excited typing about it. This one singular event played to heavily into the outcome of WWII and by extension, the future course of world events. For me, being able to go to the beaches and possibly Flanders Fields in Belgium is the best way I think to pay tribute to what has been coined as the “Greatest Generation.”
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| British Troops landing on Sword Beach, and no I didn't take this picture |
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| Flanders Field in Belgium, the Arlington Cemetery of Europe for American troops (I'll take credit for this one lol) |
I’m hoping, as the title suggests, that the upcoming weeks will be “the experience” to remember. But at the same time, I don’t think I want one event to define this entire trip. I want to remember every part of it in as just a positive light. I’ve sure as heck met some great people on this trip and I hope that we can all spend time and get to know each other more so when we break in late February for a week.
That’s all for now, until next time,
Stay Tuned…
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