Firenze...

So last night i went to lions fountain, which was a cool but very american bar. I met this guy who was traveling around europe getting ideas for a new restaurant he wants to start. He already owns this pretty successful one in miami, thats asian style and apparently wants to start another one but with a more european flair so him and his partner are traveling around Europe getting ideas. I told him i am going to school for marketing and management soooo if he ever needs someone to help advertise his new restaurant in the near future to shoot me an email hahah doubt that will happen but hey one never knows! came back pretty early last night because have alot i want to do today. Theres a museum down the road from my house (i live on via ghibellina) that i want to check out i just honestly have no idea what it even is haha I went to the Uffizzi museum the other day by the ponte vecchio bridge and that was pretty cool. They had a Caravaggio exhibit and his paintings were amazing, some were a little morbid but cool nonetheless. We werent allowed to take pictures unfortunately but heres one of the paintings i saw that was super intense

All the Caravaggio paintings and one painted shield with a medusa type person on it were all in these rooms that were painted a deep red so it was a cool effect. The rest of the museum was just okay, some of the paintings were cool but there was also alot of portraits (which personally i think arent too exciting, especially when theres like 100 of them haha) and very religious art work. They had a bunch of old statues around the building that was cool. The actual museum itself was gorgeous, everything in italy has so much history and is so old that even the museum itself is a piece of history. its pretty awesome. I got a museum pass for 40euro which is a pretty good deal bc now i can go into a ton of museums for free and cut the lines. The museums are fairly expensive some of them so i use it 3 times and the pass was worth it. Today i have class at 3, but i am going to meet sarah at 12 and go check out another gym, weve been comparing gyms and prices to see if we want to join one and which one to join. We also want to check out the san lorenzo food market for lunch and maybe do a lil grocery shopping. Apparently the food there is super fresh and delicious, and ive heard the food market is huge so im excited to see that. ive only been to the san lorenzo clothing market so far. So that is my plan for the day! I am going to head out now and do that. It still blows my mind that im living in florence. I dont know if ill ever get used to the idea haha the only bad thing is the mosquitos i aquired a few more buts last night its awful, theres no way to avoid it. Darlene, a woman who is living with us who used to work on wall street is now going back to school here for painting, bought us a citronella candle yesterday which was super nice of her but idk how much it actually helped and we cant leave it on at night bc anna said well burn the house down haha but im pushing 45 bug bites right now, i just want it to get cold out bc than theyll all die out and not bother me anymore!...the cleaning lady just came in to take our sheets and laundry i think...she started speaking super fast italian and was picking all our stuff up so im assuming so or me and lauren were just robbed of sheets and clothes hahah she said as she was leaving, "parlo italiano si?" im like uhhhh "un poco?" hahahah anyways time for me to get my act together and head out. Italian is my only class today, tomorrow i have italian and sculpture class, thursday i have italian and rise and fall of the medici family (history) and global buissness and society. So its not too crazy of a schedule gives me alot of time to discover florence and of course the 3 day weekends are great for traveling. im so excited to leave for the amalfi coast on thursday night!