Day 37: Here's the Mail it Never Fails!

     Um where did September go!?!? Time has been flying! I slept in til 12:30 because I couldn't get to sleep last night until after 3. Caroline and I went to the post office and I got a letter!! From my mom!! Mail is my favourite :). Then we went bag hunting. We didn't find anything we loved, but I ddin buy one of the Long Champ bags that I wanted all month. It's purple! We got back around four and I napped until 7. I am always so tired here!
     After dinner tonight, Caroline and I went for an hour long walk. It was really nice weather and we didn't want to waste it. We got gelato and found the green dome, which turned out to be a synagogue! Mystery solved. It took me foever to fall asleep tonight because I'm so excited for the weekend! We have to wake up at 7 though, so buona notte!

Day 36: Classes, Presentation and Quiz, Oh My!

     I practiced my oral presentation on counterfeiting 4 times before class. Then I spent the entire class waiting to present. Of course I had to wait until 2 hours had passed to go. And I think it went really well; the class paid attention at least. Then I had my Italian quiz. I forgot how to say bridge, although that was one of the first words I learned here... exhaustion much?
     I got to watch Covert Affairs today! I found a way to stream it here (sadly, I don't have hulu OR pandora!) At 10 pm, Caroline and I went out to Kikuya and the Red Garter. We were going to hang out with Chloe but she ended up getting lost and didn't show up til 2 and by that time we had left. A car literally followed me when we left to go to Blob to stare at me, and when it drove past, the guys inside were hollering at me. Rude! They would never get away with that in America; I was horrified! At least Blob was fun, making the night better. There was live music. We stayed out until 11:30; Derek literally begged us to stay, but I was so tired. I hadn't even drank anything but water all night because I wanted to stay up and go to the clubs, but that just wasn't happening tonight. Oh well!

Day 35: 4 Years

     I can't believe it's been four years since Auntie Ciara passed :(. I think I'm starting to get sick; I'm completely exhausted all the time. I had italian tody, and we reviewed for the quiz tomorrow. She's not putting much on it, surprisingly. Quizzes here are different; it's like high school. After class, I went back to my room, but the cleaning lady was there so I left. As I was leaving the building, I ran into Caroline, and so we went for a walk together. We stopped for some gelato and explored Firenze. As we were heading back, we discovered an awesome light store next to our house. It sells the coolest random stuff.
     I had to walk quickly to my Wine Marketing and Business class so I wouldn't be late; time had flown while we were exploring! I studied my index cards for Italian during class because once again we weren't learning anything in this class. Takei and I spent two hours skyping this evening. I miss him soo much! I spent til 1:30 in the morning working on my international marketing oral presentation for tomorrow. It's on counterfeiting, and I had to make a powerpoint. I hate when I'm the only one presenting :(.

Day 34: Project Success!

     Today I had photography at 9, per usual. I didn't get out of bed til 8:40, yet I still managed to have breakfast and get there exactly on time. Our projects were due today and I had been super nervous about it. The subject was "Around Florence", and so I had photographed bikes. My professor liked my collection of ten pictures, so I'm pretty satisfied with myself.

     I also got to practice layers on photoshop. Then we went to a park because for the next two weeks, our project is landscapes. Chloe and I left after we got a few pictures and she showed me her appartment. It was giant!! They had a piano and two patios and a common room, and a few other rooms. It was so nice! I still had an hour to kill after I left her appartment, so I went home, changed, got some gelato from Carraia which is across the river, and then went to class. Jogging club was cancelled and so I just read and did homework tonight. Mafalda and I wathed youtube videos together, and she and Caroline quizzed me with my index cards. It was a really fun night :)

Day 33: We No Speak Americano

     I've been frustrated by my limited vocabulary in Italian, so I started making index cards of all the words I should know and want to know. I'm hoping this will expedite my learning of the language. Italian class today was fine; we're working on in versus a, which is annoying because it doesn't really have rules.

     Marco and Rebecca had dinner with us tonight. They barely spoke english and so most of the conversation went over my head. Rebecca ever acknowledges Caroline's or my presence. It's always awkward when she's here. I started reading 'The Help' tonight and I couldn't put it down! I love it! I'm on page 91. I don't want to finish it too quickly because books here are expensive but it's sooo good!

Day 32: Hating Mosquitoes

     Last night I slept about 20 minutes. A mosquito kept attacking me and I could hear him but I couldn't see him. I got so frustrated that I just got out of bed at 4 am and hid in the bathroom from the bug. I brought my laptop with me so I wouldn't be bored, and ended up skyping Tom for 2 hours. By that time it was 7:30 am. I went back to bed when Caroline woke up because of the bug and killed him! I spent he rest of the day sleeping and doing homework.

     Tonight, we went to the restaurant near the Duomo. I got the pomodorini-pesto dish that I got last time, because it is phenomenal. When I went home, I skyped Katie F for an hour. It was so nice how much I got to talk to people from home today!

Day 31: Happy Birthday Anna!

     Today Caroline and I visited a church that had Michelangelo's crucifix in it, but we couldn't see it because they closed off the roo that it was in. Then after that was a bus, we went grocery shopping, and then went to Gusta Pissa. Amore, the really cute waiter, was there. We don't know his name, so we nicknamed him Amore. He's a fashion marketing major and half English, half Italian. :)  We ended up sitting with a couple on their honeymoon; I gave them a ton of tips on what to do/see and where to go/eat. After the couple left and we were about to leave, Amore came over, and we told him he should go to Blob that night. He said maybe, because he had work at 9am (Blob is normally after hours so that would mean noo sleeping!). He's so nice :).
     Caroline and I walked around after lunch and then went home and napped. Time flew! Then we met up with Nick and went to Marina, a Russo-Italian restaurant. Caroline and I went out to Blob. There were only irish people there, and I talked to one of them for awhile; he was from Cork. I got carded for alcohol tonight; really? I'm pretty sure I don't look under 16. And he served me last night without carding me. Lamee. Amore ended up not showing up while we were there. But we stayed less than a half hour, and then went home to bed because we were super tired.