Hotel Vs. Hostel

While traveling through Europe I stayed in many hostels, some were sketch, most were decent, and a few I would highly recommend to anyone traveling! I am going to San Diego in a few weeks and do NOT want to pay for a hotel! I am jobless and therefore completely broke because I spent the first half of the year blowing my money on all things European. Totally worth it though. Anyways I was thinking what if I stayed in a hostel in San Diego! Great idea! I did it a lot in Europe I never felt unsafe in the hostels, and they were cheap, so why not?! I looked on a website I have grown fond of www.hostelworld.com, I found a hostel for $21 a night, with free parking, breakfast included, and I could stay in an all female dorm room. So why not! It sounds perfect....well I have never heard of anyone staying in hostels in the United States, before I looked I didn't even know we had them! I am still debating whether or not I should do it. It would be so much cheaper than a hotel and staying in a hostel you get to meet other travelers around your same age doing the same thing you are! I think that was my favorite part of the hostels in Europe, I met so many people from all over the world! My one regret was not hanging out with a few of them, but next time I go to Europe I will definitely get to know my roommates better! If anyone has ever stayed in a hostel in the United States let me know what you thought and if it's a good idea to do so!

First Day

Well I originally was only going to use this blog for stuff about traveling and where I travel to, because who wants to read about my boring life....probably no one, practically no one reads my blog anyways, but I am going to write about it anyways, at least for today. Well today was my first day of college having Hotel and Restaurant Management as my major. My first class was in fact Intro to Hotel and Restaurant Management, my teacher seems so cool! Him and his wife travel the world! That is exactly what I hope to be doing with my life....without the teaching part. So I am sitting in class with the rest of the students and in walks this guy who is sweating profusely...it is only 9 am in the morning, and the heat was not that bad today. He comes in is wearing all black(first mistake), sweating profusely, has the greasiest slicked back hair ever known to man, and his hands are shaking. He continues to sweat and shake the entire class period. It was a little disturbing to say the least. My next class was Accounting and my teacher decided he wanted us to tell jokes every class period because Accounting is boring, his words not mine. He told a pretty lame one. After that I had Microeconomics, this teacher I can already tell goes on tangents, so that will be fun. My final class of the day was Computer Information Systems, a bunch of annoying freshman and me. This class will probably drive me crazy just because of the freshman. The teacher was the strangest looking person I have ever seen, I am not trying to be mean but he looked like a characterature, no joke. He also admitted to liking 2pac so I think we will get along! After class I tried to find the bookstore at SCC because by the way that is where I am going these days. It was too hot and I was too lazy to do it so I thought I would head over to The Textbook Store across the street from MCC, they only had one book I needed. After I purchased that hella expensive book, I headed out to my car and this boy walked by and waved at me, I waved back. He then proceeded to walk by my car again and mouth something, so I rolled down my window and said "what?", he then came up and the conversation went down like this....
"What's your name?" -Parking lot boy
"Bethany"-Me(obviously)
"Hi I'm Jeff"-Parking lot boy
"Hi"-me
"Are you in a hurry to get somewhere?"-PLB
"Yeah kind of, I gotta get home."-Me(totally lying)
"Can I give you my number?"-PLB
"Sure"- Me
Writes me his number on my receipt for my book
"What was your name again?"-PLB
"Bethany"-Me
He then walks away and waves goodbye to me, he wasn't that cute and it was kind of random but I was flattered to say the least. It was a good start to my new semester of school.

Shark Week=New Travel Destination

Shark Week is probably my favorite week of the whole summer! My obsession with Shark Week began when I was ten years old, I believe my mom read something in the T.V. Guide about it and told me I should watch it. Well 12 years later and I haven't missed a summer yet! I know it has been a few weeks since Shark Week has been over, but I just got done watching the shows this week. See I have this wonderful thing called DVR-Digital Video Recorder, I record everything I watch on t.v and then fast forward through the lame commercials! It is seriously the best way to watch t.v.! Anyways after watching the show Great White Appetite I decided that someday I am going to travel to the coast of South Africa to see this:

Seal Island

Great White Sharks jumping completely out of the water to attack seals! How crazy would that be to see in person!?! Now don't get me wrong I do think seals are one of the cutest sea animals, right up there beside dolphins, however this is part of the ocean life food chain. And I want to see it up close and personal because I think it is so fascinating and would be so amazingly cool!Hopefully one day I can blog about actually being there and show my own pictures! I will definitely make it happen!

Boring.

Lately I have been feeling like my life is the most boring and worthless thing ever! I have officially today been home from Europe for 2 months and am missing my life there desperately! While I was in Europe I had the most exciting life I have ever had! I traveled all over an amazing country, I spoke another language fairly well for not ever knowing it before, I looked the best I had ever looked, I met people from all over the world, and I traveled to 9 countries within 5 months! Now that I am home I am unemployed, fat, losing my italian and bored out of my mind! My plan of attack when I got home was to get a job, save money for a semester, and then go to culinary school. Well my plan changed...I am unable to get a job because every employer in the east valley decides to ignore my generic online application that I am sure they receive from millions of people. (I don't blame them how can you make a meaningful impression for a job online?) Secondly, I decided I like cooking but would rather devote my self to a career of travel, so I have decided to change my major to Hotel and Restaurant Management with an emphasis on international travel. However, the advisors at NAU decided that they didn't really want to help me out until 2 weeks before school starts, so I could be potentially unemployed and not fulfilling my new major requirements because of lack of communication on NAU advisors part. Hopefully next week when I call back the advisor who actually responded to me, I can figure out my life and be on a track to a more exciting life than I have had this summer.