First let me say that San Joaquin, my little town, is a very safe place.  Heredia is said to be the "safest city in Costa Rica," and San Joaquin is pretty much the safest town in Heredia.  However, you wouldn't know it, especially if you're coming from Athens, GA. and the north...

There once was a professor named Katie who worked six days a week and could never find time to sit down and write a blog to all of her loved ones.  Then one day after giving a long final exam, she realized that she had a rare 45 mins of extra time and knew exactly what she would do...

For those non-spanish speakers, A day in the life of Katie

5:45am - The sun comes bursting through my very windowed bedroom

6:00am- The alarm clock goes off  AENH AENH AENH AENH.  I get up, walk into the living room and turn it off.

6:01am- I take a wake-me-up shower

6:06am- I cook myself...

Damas y Caballeros,

Here is the first blog of the many that will follow over the next year.  I love all of you very much but unfortunately do not have enough time to write all of you, especially when it is the same thing over and over and over. Therefore, I will write this to all of you.

So,...

Its been a crazy week in Germany. Right after the girls left Katie and I went to Frankfurt. We were exhausted and sick after partying in Greece and London (with Eve and friends which was a blast) and then spending the night in the airport. So we decided that Frankfurt would be our recouping city. It...

We said goodbye to Natanya and Jenna a couple days ago, so now its the Katies, once again, taking over the world. Our closing schedule is as follows:

London: 7/27-7/28. Stayed with my friend Eve from chile for two night and hung out with her and her incredibly hilarious British (and Welsh) friends....

We got into Athens, Greece late a couple nights ago (I can't say exactly when because days are running together), and slept until noon the following morning. We walked around Athens, did a little shopping (much to my dismay), and toured around some of the ruins. Athens is hot and dirty and stinky,...

Itlay has been treating us beautifully. Time goes by slow here and people are passionate about EVERYTHING. We started in Chinque Terre where we rested onthe blue beaches and hiked through each of the five (chinque) villages (terre). Each town is snuggly set into the tall cliffs that drop into the...

Talk about adventure. In the past two days Iäve jumped off a 20 ft cliff into glacier water, slid down a waterfall, zip lined through a canyon cavern, repelled down a 150ft cliff, whitewater rafted, and loved every second of it. Interloken is absolutely beautiful. Sometimes its hard for me to believe...

Bonjour! Well, as travelling usually goes our plans to go to Barcelona were foiled by a booked train. We couldn't find any train out of Paris xcept to this tiny little fishing town on the Spain side of the France/Spain border called Portbou. It was perfect. This town was literally three blocks lined...

Paris is incredible. After spending two days in London, we took the Eurostar to Paris and arrived late on Wed. night. Our hostel is the biggest in Paris, and filled with people from all walks of life- young and old, from Switzerland to Nigeria. We all came to see the most romantic city in the...