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On a normal day my phone sounds like a ver aggressive mosquito, angrily buzzing every other minute. Nowhere else are my real life and online life as intertwined as here: I receive tweets from blog buddies while checking the results of my final exams and pictures of my friend's lunch are next to pictures of pretty flowers on the other side of the planet. Most of the time I love it. Sometimes the constant stream ofmessages annoys me. That's why I couldn't care less about not having internet access most of the time during my four week trip to Germany and France.

At first the silence on the campground was deafening. Obviously no mail from college, but also no tweets from blog buddies, no endless conversations about Hodor with a high school friend. Nothing. I felt a little uneasy... until I realized I wasn't mindlessly staring at my Facebook newsfeed, I wasn't looking at badly written blog posts about make-up (sometimes I get so bored I even look at make-up blogs- I always regret it). I wasn't bombarded with messages from friends and foes alike. I wasn't getting distracted by the wonderful world of the internet, I was living in the real world for 100%. And it was awesome.

Suddenly I found myself staring at ducks in a river for hours at a time. I got overexcited at the sight of certain rocks. The geologist inside me spent hours thinking about the geology of the area and the part of me that's a writer kept coming up with plots for fantasy stories set in the woods I'd been walking through all day. I didn't miss the internet at all in those first two weeks. We spend too much time staring at screens and too little looking at the world around us. That's a shame. It's a beautiful world and it has too much to offer to be ignored. Turning your phone off for a couple of days won't kill you - if anything it'll make you feel more alive.

I came home on the 13th, ten days ago. I haven't posted since that day. I went online to catch up with some friends, but the internet had lost some of its appeal. While I was away, I'd started to miss being in touch with my friends, but back home I missed the woods, I missed the conversations with my dad. And so I decided to stay away a little longer. Spent some more time in the real world. I don't know what pulled me back in. I was probably missing you guys and all of the awesomeness you have to offer. Still I seem to turn my phone off a little earlier every night. I try not to spend too much time browsing site I'm not interested in. But most of all I try to enjoy the real world more and so far I'm enjoying it a lot!

Stay Awesome!