stone age

(LG phone thru Moviestar)

Definitely feeling like a "moviestar" right about now with my high-tech LG, oh yaaa. The iPhone doesn't have nada on this! Haha jk. I actually really like this phone though. It's so small & so light that I swear a euro weighs more. Since I only have it for texts & important calls, it gives me my life back. My mom observed that people here are barely ever on their phones, well at least far less than americans. I've always been a sucker for simplicity- it's what life should be all about since anything else is just extra.

ello!

(Telephone booth right by The Big Eye & Big Ben, London)

Greetings from England! So mah mum & I met this pinoy priest & his pinay wife at the Heathrow airport when we first got to Europe & they're letting us stay at their place. Bloody crazy, right? They're such sweet people! My favorite part of the UK: I'm mighty jealous of the racial diversity they have here. Can I get an awwmen? Btw, all this was said in a British awksent.

divine omen

(photo taken on my way back to Madrid)

Although the sights from planes have always been so beautiful, I've always hated planes because they usually make me dizzy & nauseous. Yet on my way back to Madrid, right before orientation, I saw the most breathtaking sunset. There's no doubt in my mind that He was giving me a taste of heaven to shut down all my worries about my new life for the next three months. Afterall, I was high in the clouds where he usually stands, right? :)

rise of the phoenix

(Phoenix Park aka the largest park in Europe)

I leave Ireland & therefore leave my cousins tomorrow :( But I feel so blessed, right now more than ever. God is good.

lookleft

Thanks to the people of Ireland for these traffic signals because they saved my butt HELLA* times. But suggestion: they should be re-painted as "look left... or die" lol

*Disclaimer: get used to my use of "hella" because #1 I love NorCal so don't hate and #2 once you live there for at least a year, you can't hold out for much longer. Trust.

skittles

(in front of Tito Jon & Tita DeeDee's house in Dublin)

"Sugar, ahh

Honey honey"

THE ARCHIES "SUGAR, SUGAR"

morado

(Malahide Castle; National Botanic Gardens; Malahide Demesne Regional Park)

“I think it annoys God if you walk by the color purple in a field and don’t notice.” -Alice Walker.

The people here in Dublin have the most green scenery everywhere.  All this green is another one of Baby Jesus' works of art. Maybe the Irish can't handle the constant beauty & that's why they get their drink on daily hahah jk. I looove irish car bombs, mmm :D