Whew... its been a long week...

*Day 3*

Friday we had Italian class for 3 hours. it was sooo much easier than the first class. we went over vocab and started conjugations. it is kinda coming back to me from spanish 3 years ago. After class we had free time so we went into town to the supermarket. bought a few things that I needed, but they didnt seel shorts...i wish i had brought some. Friday was Clare Gieson's birthday, she just turned 19 so im not the baby of the group! Some people in the group have had friends study abroad before and they told us about a local discotheque so we decided to go there to celebrate. we got lost on the way there so we walked around for a good 30 mins before we finally got there...it took us 4 different people and 2 different hotels to get us in the right direction. we had an absolute blast there. myself as well as a few people in the group had never been to a club before so we had a blast. apparently they are much better than the ones in America.

*Day 4*

Beach Time!!! we had been out late the night before, so when 7 am rolled around we were super tired....we had to leave the villa at 7:30 to make it to the train station on time. that morning i wasnt feeling well because i didnt get a lot of sleep, so the whole traveling in a train for two hours was going to be really annoying... about half way thru the trip i woke up from a nap and was feeling really nauseous... and now i have officially been sick on every main form of transportation available. car plane and now train. i started to feel a little better after that and slept some more. once we arrived in Viareggio we could smell the beach. we walked a little bit to the free beach but there wasnt much room, so we decided to pay 5 euros (discounted for the big group that we had) to go and have lounge chairs and umbrellas. we played in the Mediterranean Sea for a little bit then decided to lay out in the sun.... WORSE IDEA OF THE TRIP YET! since i hadnt sleep that well i fell asleep in the sun and now i look like a lobster. it dosnt sting that much now but it will turn into a really nice tan :) we had 2 hours to spare once we left the beach so we all wanted to go get something to eat. we stopped at this yummy pizza place called cartoon pizza. it was pretty tasty. the shop was right next to the shopping center so after we ate we shopped around for a while. i mainly looked around and didnt buy anything. they did have some nice fedoras, but the were a little on the pricier side. after we shopped , we got some gelatto. i had lemon and it was delicious. we had to leave at 6 oclock because the strike was going to start at 9 so we had to be back. once we got back we all decided to watch a movie in the classroom. Step Up 2 was the movie of choice, so after a while of trying to get the computer and speakers to work we finally could start watching.

*day 5*

Today we went to mass and we shopped in Florence. We went to the Duomo for mass. it was really nice and we had a small celebration. i thought it was going to be much bigger but it wasnt. It was all in Italian, but there was a sheet that had the readings in English. After mass we were all starving, so we stopped at a pizza place and had pizza again. It was much better than the one the day before, and the owner was really nice. we may go there again. we also had some more gelatto. i had caffe and mint. they were really good together. there was coffee beans in the caffe and big chunks of chocolate in the mint. we shopped around for a while. i bought a purse, wallet, scarf and hairties. i also tried on a really nice leather jacket that was 380 euros, got it down to 100, but didnt buy it. the guy handed it to me and it was just the jacket that i wanted to get too. i may wait till it gets a little cooler out. now its time for dinner and after that ill try putting up my pictures. for some reason they will not upload to facebook :( maybe i should try to do it a little less at a time.

Ciao!