Ciao mi amici,
This week as been fairly uneventful. Saturday and Sunday I rested after our trip to Cinque Terre. I did some homework and enjoyed being around the Villa. Saturday evening 4 of us took a ride on a random bus (#36) to see where it would take us. I don't recommend doing this in the evening. The bus we happened to get onto ended up going way outside of Florence, similar to the distance between Settignano and Florence...just in the opposite direction. By the latter half of the ride we were the only ones on the bus, which is not exactly a good sign. The adventure would have been fine if it would have been light out and we could have seen where we were going. We were afraid our bus driver was going to stop for the night and leave us in the middle of nowhere. Thankfully, we started to recognize buildings and streets that we had passed on the way there. Once we got back to Florence we headed back up to the Villa. Moral of the story: Don't ride bus #36 ever...and don't jump on a random bus if it is almost dark. :-D
Monday we went to the Duomo in Florence with Francesco. On our way to the church of Santa Maria Novella it started downpouring on us. It was so GREAT!!! The 28 of us were running down the streets of Florence in the pouring down rain yelling and laughing. When we arrived at Santa Maria Novella our shoes and clothes were soaked through. My camera stayed dry thanks to the bag I had it in (thanks Aunt Sandy!). It rained several more times that day and the next.
Tuesday evening I went with Claire, Paul, Dave, Jessie, and I to the big super store in Florence. This is the first time we had gone there. Basically it is an Italian Walmart...a little smaller though. I got a bottle of sweet wine, I've yet to try it though. We headed back to the Villa and sat around talking for quite some time. Then we headed to the lounge to watch the Sound of Music in Italian (Paul had bought it at the super store).
Yesterday it was rainy again. I did homework most of the day. Today I've had Italian class and soon I will have theology. Tomorrow morning we are all leaving early for Parugia and Asissi. We won't return until Sunday afternoon. I am really looking forward to it!
Well, class time for me. I hope everyone is doing well.
Love from Italia. Ciao!
Anna
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Hey Anna,
ReplyDeleteWhat an adventure. As I read your blog I am trying to form a mental image of these various adventures, people and landscapes. Very fun and so glad you are there!
Love
Aunt Jane
ps we returned from Yellowstone and were lucky to see a grizzly off in the hills, and we enjoyed the boiling creek.
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ReplyDeleteSO fun, i can picture everything youre doing and i miss it SO MUCH!!! cinque terre seems like quite an adventure - nice work on your toe, girl - ouch!! and i hope you had A BLAST in perugia & assisi, a couple of my favs (who am i kidding, everything over there was my fav, hahaha). but it was so fun - where i had my 20th birthday lol! how cool is that! i cant wait to hear about it -
by the way - is the store you went to the COOP?! BEST. PLACE. EVER. i miss that grocery store- if you havent, you should go there - and get some chocolate hippos. i know you dont like chocolate ;) but just do it for me, eh? lol
cant wait to see you!!! HOPE YOURE HAVING A BLAST!!!!!!!!
love you
laura