Wow what a last couple of days! For a moment I thought Italy was doing all it could to keep us from leaving the country! The story all began a very rainy and blustery Venice night when our hotel concierge told us there would be a 24 hour train and bus strike the next day….our last day in Venice. This was a big problem because we were staying on the island of Lido and the train station was on the island of Venice, only a 5 minute and 6 euro water bus ride b...

Covered in a layer of fog and slight mist, Venezia has been truly magical. We've gotten lost on the side streets, tasted the most delicious brioche and been over what seems like every bridge. We arrived yesterday by train to Venice then boarded a vaporetto (water bus) to get to our hotel, which is on Lido, a long island just East of the main island of Venezia. It is a perfect location, we have to take the water bus to get to and from Venezia but there is a s...

Well out wandering the streets and shopping today with a friend we could not figure out why there were so many policemen directing traffice (it's usually a free for all) and a helicopter circling the city. We thought there must be some official in town. After returning home we saw this article in the paper. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8953863/Florence-street-vendors-shot-dead-by-lone-gunman.html A crazy man went on a killing spree...

Ciao! Well I officially graduated as a certified teacher of English as a foreign language! I am so excited but quite nervous at the same time! :) I am going to go to Rome on Tuesday to send out my resume and then it sounds like me and a classmate are doing a whirl-wind tour of Europe! Leaving Wednesday and coming back right before New Years Eve. We'll be spending Christmas in Salzburg.......The hilllllls are allllivvve with the sound of muuuuusic!! I don'...

I'm taking a break from the hours of homework I've been doing! I had a request for pictures of my school and apartment so I added some of both. I can't believe I only have one week left of school! It's gone by in a blink but it also feels like I've been here for months. On Friday we went to the Christmas market. It had so many cute stands, it was hard not to buy anything! I tried some sausage, mulled wine (which was awesome), apple strudel and a custard fil...