So i havent been able to post in a really long time, i have been super busy with school work, because unfortunately its coming down to the home stretch here! I am super excited to come home because i miss the family and just american things haha but i am definitely going to miss it here, it has been an amazing experience. Two weeks ago I went to grenoble, france to visit Chantal and family! it was sooo much fun. i took a train there which was the one bad thing about the trip haha i had to transfer about 4 times on the way there and it took over 12 hrs to get there and i missed one of my connections bc the train was late so spent an afternoon in Torino, Italy haha but I finally made it there by friday night at 8 and Chantal picked me up at the train station and took me to their house! the house is sooo cute and located right in the city. They are also right next to the huge grenoble soccer stadium which was pretty cool, they said it can be alot of fun but also pretty crazy with these european soccer fans right outside there door during game time hahah The city was gorgeous and surrounded by mountains, the big buildings with the mountains in the background was so surreal looking.
When i ffirst got there we just had a delicious relaxing dinner and went to bed pretty much right after tht, i was exhausteddddd. I had a super nice bed and lil apartment in their upstairs all to myself which was also super nice. The next morning we woke up and had a delicious breakfast of french bread, yogurt, eggs, and just an amazing spread of options. It was nice to eat something for bfast besides bread nutella and coffee haha after breakfast we got dressed and chantal and xavier took me on a tour aruond town and than took me to hike "la bastille" which is like a medieval mililtary fort built in the mountainside. this is the la bastille from the city:
We had the most gorgeous day it was sunny and warm. The mountains around it also have these things called "la ferrata" which are like mountain climbing trails built into the mountain. They have all these metal bars to attach your climbing equipment to that make a sort of path to follow while climbing. It was so cool, we didnt get to do it because we didnt have the equipment but i would love to come back and do it someday.
We hiked for a long time and than went and met up with Alice and got a late lunch at this place called "Grandmas" and it was designed like a grandmothers house haha the food was AMAZING they had soups and these bread things that were kind of like italian bruschetta but the bread was so delicious and they put tons of stuff on them. i got one with bacon and cheese and idk wat else delicious things on top hahah it was wonderful. later on alice and i went out for a drink and she took me to some cool bars and showed me around town so we got to bond which was fun, shes such an interesting person and her english is amazing and im super jealous at her skill with languages haha after this we came back and had a huge birthday dinner for alice! we had tonsss of appetizers and champagne and a huge dinnerr that was delicious. they also invited their italian student they have living in the downstairs apt to dinner so that was cool, i think he prefferred to speak in english or french though since my italian isnt exactly fluent hahahh i got alice a leather bag from florence and she loved it! so i was happy with my present to her. we relaxed the rest of the evening and than me and alice had a lil marathon of the show "how i met your mother", which is a really funny show and she said she learns alot of her english from this show which i thought was even funnier haha than we eventually went to bed and the next morning we woke up had a breakfast and did another gorgeous hike in the mountains ith chantal xavier alice and leo and the dog baya!! it made me miss maya so much! but the hike was super fun and than later on i unfortunately had to pack my bags and head to the station, alice was heading back to school for the week so she cmae to the station too, to get on her train. i said my goodbyes and headed back to florence, the train ride back went alot smoother than on the way there but was still super long i arrived in florence at 5am the next day and walked sleepily back to my hosue and to bed hahah it was a great weekend though and im really glad i got to see them it was so fun. That week after i got back i just had a lot of paper writing and hw to do which wasnt too much fun. and that weekend after me and amanda didnt go on the prague trip so we did a little florence exploring. This past week i went on some cool field trips with my medici class. first we went to palazzo vecchio which was the government building for florence long long ago and the medici family moved in there and had all these secret rooms built which we got to go into so that was really cool. there would be a painting that was actaully a door and all these secret passageways it was pretty fun.
These pictures are justof the entrance hallway, we werent allowed to take any in the actual palace rooms and things. The other field trip we went on was to the Vasari corridor. This was super awesome, it was designed by Vasari the famous artist/architect and commissioned by the Medici family. The corridor goes from the palazzo vechhio all the way across the river on top of the ponte vecchio bridge all the way to palazzo pitti another meidicean palace. The medici and government people used this corridor to walk through town undetected and listen to what the townspeople were saying, basically to spy on them. It was so cool to walk through! and you got some amazing views of the city and over the river. my camera hasnt been working very well which is why the pictures are scarce, but other people have taken lots of pictures so once they post them on facebook i can steal them as my own pictures since its all the same stuff hahaha me sarah and amanda are going to visit christina next weekend in rome. i am so excited to go to rome, there is so much to see there and i have been through it a ton of times for travellling and getting flights from there but havent actually had the time to explore it. i will have lots of pictures and fun stories after this next weekend! I cant believe though as of now i have 21 days till i come home!!! doesnt seem true but it is, thats so soon! i have to get another suitcase bc of all the stuff i need to bring back! i have to go do work now but i will post again soon and post more pictures, there wont be such a long dry spell of postings again hahah ciao! :)
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