The First Entry

Hello everyone and welcome to Scott on the Rocks.  Let me start by paraphrasing every blogger in history about their first ever blog.  "This is my first time doing a blog, it's not really my thing, I've never really understood why people would care about what I'm writing," and so on and so forth.  Well, like those people, I am a first time blogger, but the difference with me is I feel I was born to write blogs as much as math blaster and number munchers were born to kick the snot out of kindergarten math.  Hopefully my faith in my writing heroes, Mark Titus and Rick Reilly, will help make this blog more entertaining for everyone involved.  Basically, I have two main goals in writing this blog:

1) To inform family and friends of my whereabouts while studying abroad this semester in Greece and Italy while also telling insightful stories and tidbits about what it's like to be a college kid in a foreign country with a bunch of people who don't wear deodorant.

2) To become a big enough internet sensation that Taylor Swift will finally notice me.

I realize that one of these goals is far-reaching, but the second goal should be pretty easy to attain.  Anyways, back to this being my first post.  As I write this, the countdown is on to me leaving on a jetplane and heading off on my adventures (It's currently at 10 hours, and 15 minutes until I go).  Though I'm not going on a dangerous mission to save the planet from an asteroid hurtling through space, I'm still starting to finally get nervous about not having the comforts of home for the next four months.  Since I go to the far away St. John's for college (exactly 1 hour from my house), this will really be my first experience venturing out from the nest.  My parents are obviously more nervous than I am at this point, but I think by the time I touch down in London town, I'm going to feel like quite the outsider.  My traveling companions, which I will henceforth refer to as the Three Caballeros, are most likely getting jittery about the trip as well, seeing as how one (Bill) has only flown once, another (Matt) will be deprived of video games for four months, and the last (Ryan)...well I guess I'm not sure if Ryan's nervous or not.  I'll get back to you guys next post on what his feeling are.

I guess I'm not really sure what else to write about yet because as of now, this entire post has been built off of speculation.  Obviously, as I go, this blog will become more advanced and exciting for all, but I think for this first one I'll keep it short and sweet.  However, I hope you're as excited as I am to discover new lands, hear new stories, and to journey where no Johnnie has journeyed before...or at least where only few have.

Ya digg?

Today's Special Shout-out: Charles Moore. He becomes an early candidate for "Biggest Contributor to the Blog Outside of Me," by coming up with the title for the blog.  Thank you Charles

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Scott Twelves