So week 6 of our amazing journey has come around, and we are getting a much-deserved break from classes and travel. This week is dedicated to work on our journals, and go on practicum’s related to our major.  I don’t think this could come at a better time. After 5 weeks of nonstop adventures, travel and lectures I think we are ready for a little rest and relaxation. Girls have been everywhere from Spain, to London to Amsterdam and come back more excited after each trip. I traveled to Paris last weekend and fell in love with another city. We would need years to see all the places Europe has to offer, but I think we are all off to a good start.

If you were to look around the palace now, you would see girls everywhere with paper, notebooks, pens, glue and computers. We are all diligently working on our thesis journal that is due this week. It is a compilation of pictures and blurbs about all the things we have seen and learned, so that one-day we can look back and remember our adventures. I think it will be wonderful to look back at this journal in a year or ten years from now, and see pictures and responses to everything we got to do and see this summer.  If I can keep up with my book, hopefully I can show my own children and grandchildren the amazing summer I got to experience.
With the busy weeks we have had it has been difficult to keep up with the work, so this week we have all hit the books, literally. Also not having a time schedule for this week has been amazing. Girls can get up when they please and get to work as needed. Many of us have slept until almost lunch time, something we have rarely done thus far.  Every trip has been totally worth it, but I am so thankful for week 5 and the rest and relaxation we are enjoying, as we get to work on our journals.

Laying our materials for work on our Journal