 Hey, hi everybody. Thank you so much for clicking on this video. Welcome back. Yeah, this video is just going to be like a What I did this summer what? Happened where I have been I got back to the US probably about 14 days ago, but I was only home in my actual house in Maryland like I live in the DC area like my actual house for Four days so it has just been like the most chaotic summer ever But now I am I will explain where I am now. I'm just going to get right into the video First off, I want to say thank you guys for the reception of my four-part study abroad series that I did I took my time really making those videos. I haven't had a chance to respond to all the comments I'm really going to try and go back and do all that But I just wanted to say thank you that if I miss your comment or if it I don't know YouTube does weird things Sometimes thank you so much for saying the nice things that you did or liking the videos because those really meant a lot to me And I could see that people were taking things away that like I wanted them to so that was just really cool I'm really special for me, especially at a time of transition when I was leaving Scotland Which I am going to talk about now because I am not in Scotland Most of you guys follow my channel probably because you're looking at the University of Edinburgh And you like found me somehow or you're looking to study abroad. That's great, but you know what's kind of weird I'm not studying abroad anymore and I'm not in the gap year Which if you're like a real OG subscriber I started my channel because I was taking like a COVID gap year away from college and then I studied abroad So now I'm actually back like in college It starts probably next week So I will maybe be doing some content about the college I go to I go to the College of Charleston in South Carolina and I haven't been here in two and a half years and I have to start my life over again for a year in a way I feel like I'm studying abroad but like in a place I've been before because it's just like it's just like the same energy But it's different and somehow the culture shock here is worse than when I moved to a whole other country But we'll get into that in future videos, but yeah, just an update. That's where I am I've been pretty much off of social media I will tell you why I have been off of social media after okay, so then this summer, right? This this summer I Just I did a little traveling So my parents came to Scotland for about three weeks because they had never been and we did the Highlands We did it I love sky again. I had been like on like a little like excursion trip. There's a whole video about it We went again. It was so beautiful And I just really wanted to spend some time in the moment because I was Documenting pretty much all of my study abroad not all of it because there were lots of parts of my life that I didn't really show Because studying abroad is moving to a new city So like you don't want to like make new friends and then be like hey, can I film you real quick? I just really wanted to like really put the camera away and just enjoy life for a little bit because it very much felt like a once-in-a-lifetime experience to be there with my parents and then after my parents left my best friend one of my best friends, Andre Actually look way better in this camera than I do in that bathroom mirror Came over and we met in Prague and started our hot girl summer Except it wasn't hot girl summer in that sense It was hot girl summer in the fact that we got fevers and we had no AC Some places I'll get into that. So yeah me and my friend Andrea. We traveled across Europe Europa we met in Prague and We traveled for about a month or A month I would say or a little over a month definitely over a month, but we started in Prague We went to Vienna Turin, Italy Barcelona and Portugal which was so fun if you're ever gonna travel across Europe with somebody make sure it is like a ride-or-die friend because in terms of friendship like we are married now like she cannot get rid of me and I think that we know like way way way too much about each other Surprisingly our friendship is still intact very much so because if you think that if you you just you better like the person I think that's probably a good way to see if you should get married to somebody is to just travel for a month with Them and like see how it goes because that that's really the true test of any relationship Yeah, we had such a good time However in Vienna, this is these are like some of our like travel just like travel a little travel event adventures We get to Prague by like day two or three She starts noticing like she has these weird little bumps on her hands and I was totally gaslighting her for like a week I was like, yeah, you're fine. I was being toxic and I was like, oh like you're fine You're just it's just maybe just a blister or something, you know, we are going on I I personally struggle with like hand eczema sometimes so I was like, oh maybe you're just getting that and she started noticing them on her feet and We were like a little more concerned But I was just kind of like oh maybe you're just getting like blisters because they just looked like blisters Yes, I did look at her foot blisters. This is what I mean You get close with somebody then we were going to Vienna And she wasn't really feeling good on the train but the train was really hot The train had no AC from Prague to Vienna. So we were just sort of vibing She wasn't feeling great like the first couple of days, but then she started to get better and We did have like one day where we were like, like, do you have monkey pox? Like we really just we we looked up the symptoms because we were like, oh weird spots on your hand What could that possibly be? Monkey pox, right? It wasn't monkey pox We were fine. But so then I start to Get what I think is strep throat when we get to Italy So we're in terrain in our Airbnb and I am like I'm literally on zoom with an Italian doctor Who was so nice and he's prescribing me strep medication. I Start taking antibiotics and then the next day we're out and about I'm like, I'm just feeling the same I like the strep is not getting better And if you've never had strep before or started taking medication like usually by like day one or two You start to feel pretty like much immediately better at least in my that's why my body has reacted to it Actually, there's like there's like a couple of things that happened during this day during the same day My phone was stolen in a market in Turin one thing I will say about Turin Beautiful city. The food was so good. There was not a person in sight who spoke English We really we just said, oh, not the touristy spot that we're gonna go there and we did that However, I was just a walking target for I Just looked like a big foolish tourist the whole entire time and so I did get pickpocketed My phone was taken. I believe in like an outdoor food market. I'm getting back to the other part of the story About what was wrong with us? So phone gets stolen. We go to a bar We get apparel spritzes because what else are you supposed to do when your your phone gets stolen? And so we're sitting in the bar I start to notice that I have little bumps all over my hands And then I look at my feet and they're all over my my feet too I start googling things because I'm now I'm like, okay, you definitely had something Because now I have these same weird little bumps So turns out we somehow contracted hand-foot and mouth disease in Prague or she maybe she got it on the plane or something and very Very odd experience still haven't gotten COVID somehow But I did we did get hand-foot and mouth disease in Italy and she had it in Vienna in Prague But yeah, so then I stopped by antibiotics and I just basically take like ibuprofen for a couple days And I was I was pretty much fine, but um that is what happened and basically for Two and a half weeks. I didn't have a phone So my friend was really great and she you know Basically had to do everything because if you don't have a phone in this day and age Like it's really hard to even know what time it is like I was really I was really lost I didn't have a phone I had no way to upload videos and then I sort of I was gonna make videos about Where we were going but then I sort of I was sort of nervous to take my camera out after I had been pickpocketed I was like you know what it's just not worth the stress because when I get home if my camera gets stolen like That's a much bigger problem because of like phone insurance. I don't have camera. I don't even know if you can get camera insurance I have no idea. You know for those two and a half weeks. I read a lot of books I definitely feel the phone addiction More potently when you haven't had your phone for two and a half weeks and then you get it back It very much feels like an active addiction. So I need to maybe do some things to Quell all of that. So now I am in Charleston. This is my apartment. I have a new roommate I just met her a couple days ago. She's not right now So I'm like doing my weird YouTube stuff at this moment It's like I don't want to scare her too too immediately with all of this But it feels super weird to be back at school. I haven't actually started school yet But man, uh, yeah, it just goes to show you that just COVID just keeps sort of messing up college In a different way because now I'm here and I basically have to like start my life over once again, which I'm gonna be honest with you guys I'm like a little bit tired of doing but the only thing I can do is have a positive attitude and Keep flying forward and try and get involved and I want to maybe make some kind of like video series or video about what it's like moving to new places because I feel like I have lived here in this city before but I've sort of had to start over a lot and I think that might be an interesting thing to cover on this channel So I will definitely be doing more videos about Edinburgh and study abroad because there are so many topics that I haven't really felt like I have I guess like covered as in depth as I'd like to so I'll probably be doing like another Q&A about Edinburgh and study abroad and those kinds of things before I sort of maybe move into like more of my life here Yeah, stick around because I know I'm gonna be making videos about culture shock and like I guess reverse culture shock I don't even know Yeah Thank you for watching and thank you for Listening to this like weird rambly story time. This is just I wanted to get like a little update up there before I start like getting into more like curated content. Thank you guys so much for watching and I will be back Regular now so Thank you for watching Baaaa Baparapapaaa Baaa Baaa Baaa Baaaa