Beautiful day here in Naples.. excited that the film festival is here.. didn’t get to see as many films as i would have wanted to see… but since this is an annual thing.. hopefully next year i will get to see even more of them… went last night to go and see a late showing of Camelion….  it was a great movie but it got me a bit upset afterwards… guess it hit a little too close to home.. anyway…

Today is an new day right?….  and have already gone to church… yes up really early… then to the Ritz for a delicious croissant avec chocolat… YUMMMM and a scone…. YUMMMM  and to blog a bit.. and today hopefully will see a movie with a happy ending…. the title surviving hitler… doesn’t  sound like it could possibly have a happy ending… but who knows?.. maybe? .. the brochure says it will…  and it says it is based on a true story… and a love story… how hopeful to find love in such horrid circumstances…

I remember reading ann frank as a young girl… then going  to her house and museum when i was backpacking in europe..  and then with my family visiting a few of the concentration camps… I think i was something like 12-14 years old…… there is this one picture i took… that is actually really powerful… through a fence… maybe i will inset it into the album…. loved photography… when  i was backpacking took tons of pictures… some are pretty funny… me sitting really close to the edge on the leaning tower of pisa…  getting stuck in the metro  turn stile… with my backpack… when we first started in Paris…. mimicking.. some of the statues…. pictures you could only take when  you are 18/19…. at my age now… just wouldn’t be appropriate…. or as funny….great pictures when backpacking …. we traveled all the way around europe… made it  up to
Sweden and Denmark.. ( visiting  my friends thomas and Claes…. and heidi) and even to the greek islands… where one of many funny stories…. i was offered a place to live and a job.. by this older man….HA! me being soooooo nieve.. thinking  that IOS… was such a great island… thought it would  be nice for a summer retreat… i called my mom… she unequivocally told me to get back on the fairy… and to not even think about it! Glad she did say that…HA!  

Guess pictures  seem to always tell a  story……
but its nice to have the real story behind the pictures…. right? 
Anyway i highly recommend that everyone go backpacking  in europe after college… perfect time…dont you think.. before you have to go out into the world… get a normal job..   and what a wonderful experience  you will remember it forever…  think of the sights you will see.. the people you may meet… and the experiences you will have… hopefully al great and wonderful….

 I recited events and  stories,  showed pictures to  so many people… I hope i was able to convince some other people to take the  time to explore  create some wonderful memories and take the plunge into taking an adventure ……Just be careful and wise about traveling and about your surroundings….
and just do it!!! 
 
 I did the school in france after high school… then backpacking  during college….also a great time frame… Hell,… when isn’t it a wonderful time to go explore the world….. and  especially europe. …. meet great people and have great experiences…   when this college boyfriend had graduated from college with his finance degree… he even went on an adventure to europe…. My younger sister went on her trip  through europe during college… but then she had learned to ski in switzerland on one of the Aramco ski trips…. and was also traveling to and from boarding school with me when she was 14…..   i honestly hope everyone gets a chance..   

Speaking of traveling i think boarding school was really a great experience…. and traveling  as a “returning student”  was really a blast.. Gosh i could go on and on about memories… but one memory… almost getting snowed in zurich  with a group of “returning students”  HA! Seasoned international travelers by 15 years old..we were so ready to have a fun mini break… that credit card  sworn to be used only for emergencies…HA! needless to say the weather changed and we were able to get back to saudi without our small  detour… but there are so many other stories of flights with other returning students…  just think if you can … travel and go to different  cities.. countries and meet amazing people… it will change your prospective on the world.. on how you know and learn about people and will enrich your life more that you will ever know…. i have this one quote framed in my den … says something about having changed  after seeing the world from  the other side of the moon… when i get home i will put in the exact quote…
” I am not the same having seen  the moon shine on the other side of the world.”
but i believe it means that great and wonderful experiences will change your prospective and your entire life… and that travel will both enrich your life and  modify your entire prospective.. on everything. Also i believe that once your entire prospective is changed … it will never go back to its original dimension.. you know? .