Helloo!!!! I'm back in the states!!! Yesterday (8am Italy time, 1am Alabama time) I headed to the airport for my travels home - and I arrived back at my apartment at 11:30pm Tuscaloosa time, 5:30am Italy - basically I was traveling all day, and up for 24 hours. I couldn't sleep on the plane because of, difficult people beside/around me, you could say, haha. But I went straight to bed and woke up at 7am today, and I feel pretty good! So, now I'm just unpacking and...

Hello!! I hope you are all doing well! I'm currently in Sorrento - thursday was our last day of class and we left after that for a mini vacation from our vacation haha. It was much needed though - thursday we had to turn in our last paper which proved to be very difficult, and I tried to begin packing all my luggage and start cleaning my apartment. Ah. But class was wonderful - we had it early at 8:30 so we could leave for our trip earlier. For class we went to S...

Hello! Wow I can't believe that in less than a week I will be back home - it's definitely a mix of feelings. On one hand I can't wait to be back and see everyone I've missed so much (and eat things I've missed, have AC, etc) but on the other hand I have grown to love Florence and Italy so much. I definitely feel at home here, and I keep thinking about how "homesick" I'll be for Italy when I leave. For the most part, today was just a combination of try...

Ciao! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend :) Today we went to the Boboli Gardens and the Piazzo Pitti for class! We took our lunches and had a little picnic in the gardens, and discussed the paper we're writing - it's about the Medici Tombs, and then we went into the Pitti Palace and toured the costumes exhibit. That was really neat - it had the clothing/costumes dating from Renaissance time, to the 80's. I loved the 18th century and the early 20th century dre...

Ciao! Today was such a great day - we had nothing planned for class, so I organized a little trip myself to go horseback riding in Tuscany! My friend Julia helped plan it, and 4 other girls came with us. We found a trip that took us out to Tuscany to ride in the countryside for 2 hours, then a mini-tour and wine tasting at a castle, finishing with a wonderful lunch at a resort-like area where we could lounge by the pool. It was a much-needed relaxing day, a...