OK so I am back again this time from the amazing country called Greece. I have been living here for 3 months now and I return to America in two days on the 22nd. I cant wait to be home again with my friends watching movies in the cinemas and eating whenever i want without the feeling of going broke every time I spend one Euro/Dollar. I miss my mother and my own room... I have to share a room with a guy here, its like being back in the dorms freshman year.

I have learned so much about myself and history that I feel like I am on overload and I need to shut down but I cant there is still so much to be done before I return home and upon arrival. Also those first weeks will be the most intense weeks in a long time. Getting all my affairs back in order... I am going to have my phone back and internet and cable and a car!!! Being a child of the electronic age I have gotten used to some of the luxuries the world has to offer. I have adapted but I know once I return I will revert back to my old self (which isn't so bad right?).

I have soo many funny and not funny stories about this trip I could talk for days. I haven't had time really (or mainly the internet) to put pictures up on here because the loading system is slow but I will continue to work on it and put more up. i have gotten to see so many sites and beautiful sunsets and amazing landscapes its almost ridiculous.

Before coming here I hadn't even been in Europe only Canada for a short time and Mexico for a week and a half for vacation. Now I have gotten to see Athens, London, Paris and Rome. Plus so many smaller cities along the way. I have eaten Italian Pizza and Gelato. I had a crepe in Paris while laying in the park looking at the Eiffel Tower. I ate a traditional English Breakfast a Pub in London right beside the Tower Bridge then saw a Shakespearean Play at the famous Globe Theatre. Numerous times I have sat on my roof and watched the sunset thus bringing to life the lights atop the Acropolis while eating a Greek Salad or a Yiros. I walked through ancient ruins all over Greece and Rome and then got a taste of the modern world in Paris and London.

Life here has been good to me I have loved every minute of my time here even the times where I wanted to beat the crap out of a guy in the program who was being a complete Dousch!!! Or the times I went off on a few girls are literally some of the dumbest people I have ever met. But overall those experiences taught me something and I will always remember what I have learned here.

I have no regrets about my amazing European adventure. I can honestly say that this has been the best time of my life. Every trip to a new city will forever be bracketed by this experience. I have been shaped like never before, one of the best quotes I have heard since being here is...

"Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor."

Through all my sufferings good or bad I am a new statue. I have been picked, cut, cleaned and then finished with splotch of paint. So for all you out there who are thinking about traveling the world all I have to say to you is go for it and put your whole heart and effort into it. You will start out one way and come out different and better for it. Life is not about the end destination but the Journey in which you take to get there.

So as I sit here righting this I might find myself thinking of home and what it will be like when I return, I know truly in my heart that I am going to miss this place and everything that came with it. Though this experience is over it has begun a whole new Journey for me, who knows what lies ahead but what I know is Im Ready!

Thanks for reading.
Steven Dale Parker aka Dmano.