San Fran is possibly one of the coolest places on Earth.

Well, at least that I've been, which isn't saying much, but I love it. There aren't any cities like it in like, the whole of Australia, and as much as I loev it here, San Fransisco is just...

I love it.

Hehe, can you tell?

Hey Y'all!

Let's see, I live in Georgia, and I've been to: South Carolina (All over because it's really close), North Carolina (Beach), Florida (Orlando Yay Disney World!) Louisville, KY, Denver, CO, Los Angeles, CA (I love Hollywood and Beverly Hills), and Cincinatti, OH.

I love to travel. I'm still hoping to get to England one day soon. I've got the passport, I just need the time. Hey Leni, I pay in chocolate if you're willing to be a tour guide!

I may just have to take you up on that in a few years, LLK! Hehe. I met a boy this year in math whose brother actually did that. Train-caught all the way across Asia and Europe, and I just went, "Dude, how much fun would that be?!"

An road tripping across the US. That would just be awesome. My boss and my dad were talking the other day about travelling the US because she's going soon. But she adored the whole of Middle America, and the people. So I'm itching to travel.

My only problem will be deferring my studies for a year. Which would be tricky if I go to school here. But if I go in the US, I will have from November to September to travel, becuase of the school year differences, so I wouldn't have to defer.

But now I'm just sorting out my thoughts to you. Hehe.

So yeah. 2011: anyone want to backpack the US with me? Coast to coast, baby.

Speaking of train travelling, I'm inter-railing this summer with a couple of my housemates. But we wanna try and hit Eastern Europe, since we've all pretty much done Western Europe to death.

Man, that sounds like fun!

If you go to Istanbul, you have to give me many, many details. I've wanted to go there since I was like eleven. Hehe.

Always! And I'm now going to be FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE (ish!) from August, cos #1. I just got made redundant (yay - I was gonna hand in my notice anyway, but now they'll pay me to leave!) and #2. I'm refusing to put stuff in my diary after that because I'm not gonna keep doing-stuff-for-free-just-out-of-the-goodness-of-my-heart any more! Spent too long this year doing that, and as we say here in Yorkshire, "I'm putting my foot down with a firm hand"!!

Which is why, since I said I wasn't gonna be around much, I've actually been around a whole lot more than I was before I said it!! (I think... )

Anyhoo - love to see any of y'all, any time!
Leni

Well since I live here anyway, absolutely Giorgia. Haha. Though I havea job and a school career to think of so I may only be able to give you like the month of June '11 or something, but we could still see quite a bit together then.

Would be awesome though. But, I've seen the US a bunch of times. I wanna see the world.

June works for me! Hehe. I put my plan to my mother and she looked like she was about to have an anneurysm. The woman who hitchhiked around New Zealand. *Rolls eyes*

Dad thought it was brilliant, though. Haha. Figures. Hopefully everything'll work out for then and I won't have to stay here for any reason. Reasons like not getting accepted to any US universities.

I have to study American History somehow, though. Hm. Can't do that here, but it's still a uni pre-requisite, there, isn't it?

I think so, actually. I never really thought much about it because we're forced to take like five or six American History courses in the course of our studies. (Or I was anyway, but I moved around quite a bit and they tend to make you re-take things because they think their school does it better.)

But, you could probably enroll in a distance learning course online and get it out of the way. You could do it from a small community college someplace in the states for probably a relatively small sum of money. (Something like $150 maybe closer to $300 after fees.) Which is considerably cheaper than the $1,000+ it would cost you to do it through a University. You would just have to ensure that the schools you were applying to accepted transfer credits from the community school you picked.

Then again, I bet there are all sorts of exceptions that they make for students from other countries because of the difference in course focus and all that. You might just have to take an American History course to graduate. Which is lame because American History is BORING.

Haha... okay, so maybe not that bad but I'm a Hitory major and it's by FAR the most annoying course I've ever taken and I know it all like the back of my hand.

I could probably teach it to you... speaking of! I bet you could also just take a placement test for it. Like to test out of the course. Then all you'd have to do is study independantly for a little while and then take the test. I bet you could pass, it's really not all that hard. History tests are like book reviews.

Hehe, thanks for the pointers, LLK! My mother did that, I think. From here (Australia), she went to a junior college and did her prerequisites (American History and Physics, because she did architecture, and here you don't actually NEED physics for that), then transferred out to Berkley.

If it's only a semester or so, though, I'm pretty happy to just take the course. Here, they still haven't figured out how to teach History at all. Whether you learn names and dates or politics or consequences of. They're all over the place, and it literally varies in method by school.

*Rolls eyes*

It's ridiculous. But I could probably just ask my dad to teach me American History. He remembers an amazing amount, actually, from high school and college.

I always fancied doing a course in American History. They do a good degree course at the Uni here in Sheffield, but - maybe I could join you out there, Giorgia?!!

I quite fancy the coast-to-coast stroll too!

Leni

Then join us Leni! That would be awesome. And, if we do a US coast to coast stroll I'll just take you to all the important places and teach you guys about the country from a "hands on" viewpoint. That'll be more fun than reading it in a book.

Now there's an idea, LLK. And yes, Leni, stroll away with us! I'll probably be broke, though, which will mean Youth Hostels and such, though. Just a word of warning. Hehe.

Sounds great, and I would so love to, but I'm pretty skint too. So unless a) my rich aunt puts me back in her will and dies pretty sharp-ish, or b) I actually win £10,000 on one of those stupid CSI competitions they have on TV every week - neither of which is ever likely to happen! - I probably won't make it!

Leni