Friday, December 17, 2010
Monday, December 13, 2010
pictures!
Just taking in all of florence I can in my last days! heres David on top of the duomo, during Wheres David? week hahaha
baptistery of San Giovanni
Boboli Gardens Fountain (of course commissioned by the Medici)
gorgeous duomo
palazzo vecchio
christmasy streets!
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| (above) santa croce! In the plaza where sarah and amanda live |
last week in firenze...
My gallivanting around europe is coming to an end this coming weekend unfortunately :( Although I am veryyyyyyy excited to head back to the US, i missed everyone and just everyday american things, but it is still very sad as well. I have to leave behind my two roomies Nil and Lauren, who hopefully ill see again! Nil wants us to visit her in Turkey someday so I hope to be heading that way at some point :) I will also miss Firenze and living in a city, where else can i get amazingggg kebabs at 3am with sarah and amanda just because were hungry and need a study break? hahah Ill miss the food, my host mom, and all the other people I have met here, and speaking italian! now i have gotten a little tired of always having to be in italian mode and i miss being able to know I can communicate with the people wherever i go, but it has been amazing actually using another language and i know i will miss it insanely as soon as im back for a bit. All in all this has been an amazing experience. This past weekend I went out with all my friends and we did lots of celebrating! I also got to be in the end of the year fashion show for the fashion classes at my school, because our friend Marianella was in fashion design class and asked me to be her model. of course i agreed, although had some doubts after she showed me the outfit I would be sporting for the whole university to see hahah here is just a lil sample of when I first tried on the outfit:
so it was quite the outfit hahahaha apparently the theme was either 60's or hippie chic? clearly Marianella has no idea what they wore in the 60s because thts the era she chose, everyone had these pretty cute outfits on and i wore this. she is too funny, i do have to say our outfits were the hit of the show! I wasnt too nervous, even though one grl back stage said wow u have a lot of self confidence to wear a marianella design in public hahahahah it was so much fun, im so glad i decided to do it. I had my makeup all done up and looked a lil more like a vegas showgirl than a 60s grl but owell! heres a few pictures from later that night of our last weekend out in florence!!!
It was a great weekend. Now i just have tons of work and finals to get through than im heading home! wooooo!!!! :) cant wait to be back! well i better get back to studying...
mary, alyse, me
me, spencer, sarah, amanda
It was a great weekend. Now i just have tons of work and finals to get through than im heading home! wooooo!!!! :) cant wait to be back! well i better get back to studying...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
ROMA ROMA!
This past weekend i went to roma with amanda, sarah, and christina. It was sooooo much fun. We took a train there on friday around 11 and got in at 330ish. Christina met us at the station because shes studying in Rome so she was already there of course. Our hostel was super close to the train station which was very convenient. It turned out to be a really nice hostel which was awesome bc it was oonly 15 euro a night and i had done the research to find it soooo if it didnt wrk out i wouldve felt bad hahah so we checked in and got changed to head out into the big city! It was already a lil dark out bc it gets dark at around 4 now haha but not a problem still could see a few things. first we went to the trevi fountain which was soooo gorgeous. threw in my penny so tht means someday ill return to roma!
After the fountaiin we went to the pantheon which was pretty cool, but it was even cooler bc we ran into this grl megan from bentley who were good friends with whos studying abroad in madrid, spain who just happened to be visiting rome and in the pantheon the same time as us! such a weird coincidence!!! sooo we chatted and almost got kicked out of the pantheon for being too loud hahah and exchanged numbers with her so we could meet up later that night.
After this we headed to aperativo at this bar, which is wen u go to a bar and u just have to buy one drink and they have this whole buffet of food set out and u cn eat as much as u like! its supposed to be like appetizers but we treated it like dinner and got a ton of plates full of delicious food. We relaxed at the aperativo place for a while which was super nice and chic, we felt like we were on Sex in the City. after this we headed to another bar called the drunken ship, which was sooo much fun. they had beer pong going so me and amanda played christina and sarah, and of course we won. me and amanda are too competitive to lose anything. The next day we did the hop on hop offf bus tour of rome. its an awesome thing to do bc it stops at every tourist attraction adn a bus comes to each stop every 15 minutes so u get to see everything very conveniently instead of walking everyhwereeee (which is hard in rome bc its huge!) and figuring out the metros and all the public transportation this was much more convenient and fun.
on the bus! we got front row seats!
We went to the colleseum and went inside of it. that was super cool.
We also went to the spanish steps, which werent as impressive as i had expected, but still cool.
We also went to the Vatican, which was INCREDIBLE. Even the size of it alone is unbelievable. It was so gorgeous and there are tons of cool pieces of artwork everywhere. it definitely lived up to my expectations and more.
We stopped at a couple other places saw lots of cool buildings and piazzas. There are just ancient ruins everywhere in rome its strange ur on a pretty modern bus and street than theres all these crumbling pillars from millions of yrs ago along the sidewalk haha so strange but cool. We did the bus tour all day than finally tourist-ed ourselves out and got ready for dinner. we went to this delicious restaurant and got bruschetta for an appetizer, i got gnocchi with chicken as a main course, side dish of potatoes, and cheesecake for dessert and of course some vino to go with it, when in rome! The waiter loveddd us and thought we were hilarious so he gave us tons of free wine and ice cream so we stayed at the restaurant for hrs enjoying ourselves hahah
this waiter loved christina and he was so funny, as u can see from me laughing so hard to the left hahah
after that we went out to a bar and relaxed the rest of the night. the next morning we had to checkout by 10am so got up early showered and headed out. Christina took us to this hugeeeeee market that had everything from makeup to clothes to pets to everything you could imagine. it was crazy. we went to lunch at this cafe and had the worstttt food. our lasagne was cold, the meat was weird, it was the worst meal wed had in italy, we were so hungry though we couldnt even complain we just ate hahah and our waiter would mumble wen he talked so we didnt understand him at all, and he was speakin enligh we would have rather he spsoke italian, it wasnt the language barrier he was just a teerrrible waiter haha but besides the bad meal the rest of the day was awesome, we went to a park by christinas house and got soupali's which are delicious fried rice balls with tomatoe sauce and stuff in them. deliciousssssss. than also got the most famous tiaramasu dessert in rome. it was DELICIOUS and i dont even usually like tiaramasu tht much.
this huge donut thing i got at a market the first night, after it was warmed it was covered in nutella, basically the ultimate donut...AMAZING
After that we had to head back to the station to get our train back to florence. it was such a funn weekend we had a great time and it was a good last trip together. now i really have to think about heading back to the states! so crazy! im excited to leave bc i miss everyone and just being home, but im really sad too bc italy is amazing, my host mom is amazing, and my roomies lauren and nil im going to miss so muchhh!!!!!
Me with the trevi fountain
all of us!
After the fountaiin we went to the pantheon which was pretty cool, but it was even cooler bc we ran into this grl megan from bentley who were good friends with whos studying abroad in madrid, spain who just happened to be visiting rome and in the pantheon the same time as us! such a weird coincidence!!! sooo we chatted and almost got kicked out of the pantheon for being too loud hahah and exchanged numbers with her so we could meet up later that night.
After this we headed to aperativo at this bar, which is wen u go to a bar and u just have to buy one drink and they have this whole buffet of food set out and u cn eat as much as u like! its supposed to be like appetizers but we treated it like dinner and got a ton of plates full of delicious food. We relaxed at the aperativo place for a while which was super nice and chic, we felt like we were on Sex in the City. after this we headed to another bar called the drunken ship, which was sooo much fun. they had beer pong going so me and amanda played christina and sarah, and of course we won. me and amanda are too competitive to lose anything. The next day we did the hop on hop offf bus tour of rome. its an awesome thing to do bc it stops at every tourist attraction adn a bus comes to each stop every 15 minutes so u get to see everything very conveniently instead of walking everyhwereeee (which is hard in rome bc its huge!) and figuring out the metros and all the public transportation this was much more convenient and fun.
on the bus! we got front row seats!
We also went to the spanish steps, which werent as impressive as i had expected, but still cool.
We also went to the Vatican, which was INCREDIBLE. Even the size of it alone is unbelievable. It was so gorgeous and there are tons of cool pieces of artwork everywhere. it definitely lived up to my expectations and more.
after that we went out to a bar and relaxed the rest of the night. the next morning we had to checkout by 10am so got up early showered and headed out. Christina took us to this hugeeeeee market that had everything from makeup to clothes to pets to everything you could imagine. it was crazy. we went to lunch at this cafe and had the worstttt food. our lasagne was cold, the meat was weird, it was the worst meal wed had in italy, we were so hungry though we couldnt even complain we just ate hahah and our waiter would mumble wen he talked so we didnt understand him at all, and he was speakin enligh we would have rather he spsoke italian, it wasnt the language barrier he was just a teerrrible waiter haha but besides the bad meal the rest of the day was awesome, we went to a park by christinas house and got soupali's which are delicious fried rice balls with tomatoe sauce and stuff in them. deliciousssssss. than also got the most famous tiaramasu dessert in rome. it was DELICIOUS and i dont even usually like tiaramasu tht much.
always eating...
After that we had to head back to the station to get our train back to florence. it was such a funn weekend we had a great time and it was a good last trip together. now i really have to think about heading back to the states! so crazy! im excited to leave bc i miss everyone and just being home, but im really sad too bc italy is amazing, my host mom is amazing, and my roomies lauren and nil im going to miss so muchhh!!!!!
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