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Monday, August 18, 2008
First week in Europe
Hey all! John here again and I am writing to you from an internet café in Paris. Today marks the end of my first week here in Europe and I have been having a blast. Riding on the hopes and dollar signs of my credits cards, my vacation has turned out to be amazing. The people over here have been so much fun and I have been making the best of every day. This morning I am really tired because I was out last night at a dance club here in Paris and so I needed some time to decompress and drink some espresso. The food in this city has been my favorite so far even though I have been to London and Paris. Tomorrow I am off to Amsterdam though so I may end up having to change my mind about that.
As I said last time I wanted to try and get to some skiing spots during this trip but I have not really found the room financially and it looks like that option has passed. Since I am heading north tomorrow I think that my opportunity to go to the slopes was here over the past three days. After a few days in Amsterdam I want to see Berlin and then I will be leaving from there to go home. My plan had been to try my best to fit it in but I wanted to see how financially everything was going to work out when I got over here. OF course I have been living off the support of my credit cards and so it has been just a constant accumulation of debt. I did get a loan but that was only for living expenses so everything else has gone on my visa card. Luckily for me I have a good credit score and as a result, a few credit cards. When I get all of the bills from this trip paid off I should have a pretty good credit score because there certainly have been a lot of bills. My big goal right now is to just cut down all spending since I have become a little bit too lacks with my extraneous purchases.
Tomorrow morning I will continue this trip on to its final leg and then I will be back in town with the rest of ya’ll. I think I’ve gotten my energy back for now so I think I’ll leave it at that and just say salute for the day. Hope everyone is getting ready for the fall or on a journey like mine.
