Let me start out by saying this: IT SNOWED IN ITALY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know, it snows often but I haven't seen snow in a REALLY long time so I was extremely excited. Chelsea was too J what can I say…were southern. We got to Venice on Friday after a 5 hour bus ride and a 20 minute ferry trip across the water to the city.For one beautiful day, we had blue skies and warm temperatures. I automatically fell in love with Venice. Alaina and I stayed in the hote...

When we stepped out of the hotel this morning to walk to class, we saw sunshine for the first time since we left the states. It was AWESOME! It lasted for all of 2 hours because it's pouring down rain right now. Ha.I now know that I could never live in Seattle because all this rain is depressing. Hopefully it will be nice by the time we got to Venice this weekend.We just got out of class so we're all hanging out at the language school using the internet. College ...

I'm an utter failure at the Italian language. Seriously. I should be put in Italian Special Ed.It's not the entire language that I'm bad at…just the grammar part. I can't conjugate a verb to save my life. Marco, my Italian teacher for the first class, helps us out a lot. He speaks more English with us than the second teacher who doesn't believe in speaking English with us….so yea. That might be part of my problem. Still no text books for us but they should be...

I've officially been gone for 1 week. 15 to go before I get to see your beautiful faces again! We just got out of our 2nd language class and I must say....this is going to be REALLY difficult. I keep mixing things up with what I know in spanish but I think I'll get it eventually. Tell grandpa that I'm starting to understand how to prounce all the weird Italian words. He'll be proud :) haha I just saw on facebook that its SNOWING! I'm so jealous! I pay a ton of m...

Hello from Florence! We got here yesterday with no major setbacks. Amen. We get to stay at this really fancy hotel in downtown florence so thats a plus but we keep getting lost everytime we leave the hotel. One girl on the 3rd floor had her room broken into last night. Someone sawed off the door handle and got in then stole her passport, credit cards and travelers checks totalling about $8000. Needless to say, not many people slept very well last night. They too...