Sydney's Fieldwork Blog

Tuesday, May 2, 2017           Today was England! I had never been to the infamous Great Britain, and now I have! It was totally amazing. We took a train through London so I was there for like 10 minutes. However, throughout the day I went to Cambridge, Birmingham, and we are spending the night in Liverpool. We did have to get up early, but England is still a very very nice place.            We went to Cambridge first, and we biked EVERYWHERE. We rented bikes right when we got there and we used them for 3 or 4 hours. That's the best way to go places because walking would've hurt so much and biking avoids traffic. It was a lot of fun, except for when I sort of crashed into a car. We were going in between the edge of the street and a lane, which was like 2 feet of room, and my dad made it through and he was speeding ahead. For whatever reason he didn't go in the biking lane and I didn't see it so I followed him and then I was s...

Monday, May 1, 2017           So today was not like yesterday, it was actually kind of crappy. We woke up kind of early to check out, and we were off to the Netherlands. We took the metro to the Midi station where we took the train to Den Haag. There were multiple Den Haag stations, and the train had no signs or anything telling us which stop we were at, so we ended up missing the train station. This was one of the really fast trains, so the next stop wasn’t for a good 20 minutes. We ended up getting off at the Amsterdam Airport, and took a train back to Den Haag Central. Thankfully that train ride took only about half an hour.           At the train station they had a place to leave our luggage, and half of it was out of order. We had lost about an hour of time because we missed our station so we were a little bit on edge. We were having trouble getting some of the lockers to work, and we were going to try for the last time, ther...

Sunday, April 30, 2017           Today was our only day in Belgium, and I really liked it. Belgium is such a nice place, besides all the beer cans and broken glass in the morning. We got up pretty early to get an early start, not realizing that 1 It was Sunday and 2 it was 6am and nothing is open at 6am. I had avoided thinking about all of the scavenges because the book had so much stuff in it for a SHORTER amount of time than we spent in Sri Lanka. The Sri Lanka leg was extremely hard to win, and we were constantly on the move. For this, I’m sure it will be like that, just more. Today was a good way to start scavenging for the Europe leg.           While we were at the train station getting some help from Sonia, the helpful but intimidating lady at the station, we saw teams Thundersnow and Travelling Bohemians. We all decided to go around Belgium together. First we went to Mass with the Travelling Bohemians, while team Thundersnow...

Saturday, April 29, 2017           TODAY WE GOT A BREAK!!!!!! We flew out of Cairo, and now we are in Europe!! I've never been anywhere in Europe so I'm very excited for it. We got to our hotel in Brussels, Belgium around 4:45pm, and we were all at our (thank god!). This next leg is going to be RIDICULOUS!!! There is going to be so much traveling, trains, and I'm am assuming not a whole lot of sleep. There will also be not as many Asian tourists around, (except us) which I am definitely okay with. Because we flew out in the morning, and arrived late afternoon we didn't do any scavenging today. However, because we got our books today we were allowed to start planning out everything. Getting this book of 8 countries, multiple cities, over 250 scavenges, and having until Wednesday to get done as much as we can, was very overwhelming, and my stomach dropped past the floor. I sat on the floor and just curled in a ball for about a minute trying to process it. ...