A volcanic eruption in Iceland has literally frozen all of Europe. The funny thing about it is that here - where you would expect there to be a lot of news coverage- there is literally nothing. I have to look at American newspaper websites to keep up to date with what is happening.

The eruption could not have come at a worse time - everyone's spring break has been effected in one way or another. My parent's trip has been canceled, and although I still hold out hope that they will somehow make it here this week I'm starting to think that it will not happen. I didn't realise how much I wanted/needed them to come until I woke up this morning and they were not here. It looks like Prague is not going to work out as well, and Dublin and Rome are still up in the air.

Unfortunately, the majority of my friends were able to get out of France before the eruption began to effect French airlines and so I'm stuck here by myself until next Tuesday (unless a miracle happens). I know it could be worse - let's face it Paris isn't the worse place to be stuck- but right now I really want nothing to do with Europe anymore.

On the plus side I will have a lot of time to do all of my homework for the next month.

I really wish things had worked out differently- I feel badly that my Mom won't be able to get her first passport stamp.