Monday, October 18, 2010

Eurochocolate YUM

So this past weekend i went to the eurochocolate festival in Perugia. It was delicious haha i ate way too much chocolate but totally worth it. I went through a program called "Florence for Fun" they help organize trips for florence abroad students. I am also doing my Greece trip through them. We got up at 730am on saturday to meet the group at the station and get on a train to Perugia. The train ride was about 2 hours so got to sleep a little more on the ride there which was nice. Once we arrived we had to take a 15 mins or so bus ride to the festival. The festival was packeddddd. It was like oktoberfest but with chocolate haha We got a "chococard" which was this card that had all the tents listed on it and what free things you could get at each tent. We also had a map of where all the tents were so that was very helpful. We started from the beggining of the festival and worked our way through every choclate tent there was haha It was a really fun group of girls too it was me, lauren, amanda, christina (she was visiting from Rome for the weekend!), marianella, and alyse. So we always all have fun together. We missed sarah bc she was with her parents in cinque terre for the weekend. I had a chocolate kebab which was pretty delcious instead of meat it was shaved chocolate and the "pita" was like a cookie/cake type thing and i got strawberry jelly in it for my "sauce" it was deliciousss, but also probs contributed to the stomach ache later that night hahah the hot chocolate i think was my favorite part, we got a free cup of this hot chocolate from Ciobar, which is an austrailian chocolate company and it was sooo warm and thick it was sooooo good. i wish i got 10 free cups hahah it was a pretty cold day too so hot chocolate really hit the spot. The city itself was gorgeous and id love to go back and see the city without all the crowds and tents.

we left around 6 and got back into florence by 8 so we went home and changed and took chrsitina to one of our favorite restaurants Tijuana. Its an amazing mexican place (on the weekends we dont mind having non italian since we have it everyday during the week! as delicious as it is one can only eat so much pasta haha) and christina loved it of course bc its delicious! I had a big nacho plate and a strawberry daquiri that was super pretty in a huge cup with lots of fruits in it and stuff. Later that night we went to Club Space, which was super fun but it poured rain on our walk home and its about 25 mins from our apartments so that part wasnt too fun haha Now ive just been studying for midterms and cant do anything else until thursday at 415 when my tests are all done! haha i have all 3 midterms on thursday in a row so its going to be a brutal day (well i have one midterm on wednesday but its my sculpture midterm and we just have to sculpt a monkey so cnt really study for that hahah just gotta bring my artistic brainwaves that day haha). although i cant complain too much bc as soon as my 3rd test on thursday is done i get on a train and go to the pisa airport to catch ym flight to BARCELONA!!! wooo!!!! i am sooooo excitedddddd!!!!! i cant believe fall break is finally here! Barcelona for a few days than greece for a few days, its going to be AMAZING. ill definitely have lots of pictures and stories to share after this next week or so :) On another note lauren posted some pictures she took with her camera of our dinner table when the austrailians and a few other ppl were here sooo im gunna put them up to give you an idea of what our dinner tables look like: (dinner is the best, the food is amazing and its always hilarious)
In this photo (from left to right) is Kyle, Kinglsey, Doris, and Alex (than me of course!) - the three boys were the 3 from Australia and they were so funny i wish they could stay the whole semester but they were only doing a short program with their high school. Doris was also quite the character she was from Switzerland and spoke like a billion languages but sometimes u couldnt understand her in any language hahah
In this photo its liz (shes french and good friends with anna), Anna (my host mom!), the japanese couple (never learned their names haha), kyle, kingsley, doris, alex, me!, and darlene (going back to school for art, but she worked on wall street for a bit for Lehman Bros. and shes so funny)

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