Weekenddddd

I had a super long week of work, which i cant really complain about because its the first week I've been overwhelmed with school work since I've been here haha but it was still brutal. i had to write a paper for my Medici class and the topic and what to do was so unclear (at least i wasn't alone i called about 5 people in my class and nobody had the same answer or had much of clue what the assignment was) it was so frustrating! I usually enjoy writing papers but its hard when you don't even know what your supposed to be exactly writing about. She basically said write about 4 conspiracies using two chapters of this book and don't summarize but explain who was involved, what the conspiracy was, where it occurred etc. Within the two chapters of this book there were only 2 conspiracies discussed...and saying who, what and where is basically a summary....see how this could be a confusing/difficult task? haha but did the best i could and handed it in today so that's over and done with. also had an Italian quiz that i was a little nervous about because there was a lot of information on it but i think i ended up doing very well and was very confident when i handed in the quiz. Just alot going on in all my classes but keeping up and doing my work so thats good. Glad this week is over though haha now the weekend woo!...I wrote that on thursday than took a break and never came back to my blog haha so it is now saturday afternoon. I went to pisa today! me and alyse took a 945am train to pisa and got there in about an hour and we met christina and her italian cousin there. amanda was too sleepy to get up and go and sarah is seeing pisa with her parents when they visit so she passed haha but it was super fun, the tower is absolutely gorgeous and its called the leaning tower for a reason it looked like it was gunna tip over! more than in the pictures! we got to climb to the top of it (which was ridiculously expensive we had to pay 15 euro to go inn! so insane, but it was cool) and climbing up the stiars was hilarious it was so small and disorientating bc its sooo slanted and weird, heres me on the stairs making a weird face haha:

And all the views from the lil windows and the top were amazing. Pisa was a cute little city. there wasnt much else to see besides the tower and the really cool church next to it. Here is the view of the church from the top of the tower. It was gorgeous.

 

It was also really funny because my name is Torre and that is the word for tower in itlalian so my name was everywhere! i got a postcard with my name on it pretty cool hahah me and alyse had a really fun time trying to take the classic tourist picture of us pushing the tower, it is WAY harder than ppl make it seem. we could not get it to look right at all. here is all our failed attempts and than one sorta successful picture...

laughing at how dumb we look trying to do this hahah

Success! (sort of...)

So we stayed in Pisa till about 4. we got lunch at a lil pizza place that was decent than had amazing gelato. than we took the bus back to the train station and the train back to florence. got back and went to the gym for a bit, proud of myself for being productive haha than showered and am now in my room! we are all going to go out to dinner around 8ish to a nice restaurant bc we havent eaten out much at all so im excited to do that. have a good meal for dinner and than im going to stay in and relax. i was out late last night and had a really good time but even though its saturday night im exhausted and need to sleep haha and were going to a Florence soccer (football!) at around 2 so going to get up earlyish and get kebabs and walk over to the game which should be sooo much fun so i wanna be rested for that. its been a really fun weekend so far :) i cant believe its october already the time is just flying by! i have midterms in like 2 weeks! ah!