now my feet won't touch the ground

Alright this is gonna be rough...

the week vacation was fantastic. Went to Verona on the way to the mountains, which was cool... The mountains were sooo beautiful, and there was a mini-spa in the hotel, so for 2 days the schedule was wake up, go skiing, come back at 3, sit in the steam room/nap, eat dinner. I went skiing the first day- scary... the alps are steep. The 2nd day I went to the mountain but ice skated instead and then went bob sledding- this ended up being more of a near death experience than skiing. Or maybe i should say a near face-break experience as i had a person AND a bobsled land on my head. luckily there was nice cushy snow to protect my face.

Then me and some of my friends went to Trieste, which is a really really pretty town by the sea. We walked around a lot, went to a castle, made ourselves lunch from the breakfast buffet, and some other stuff... interesting i know. After 2 nights there we went to Venice, took a nap in our amazing hotel that we never got to fully enjoy, and then went into the city (our hotel was actually in mestre, a short distance from venice). In Venice we walked around a lot. Ate some good pizza, drank some dranks, met a lot of people, and ended up back at our hotel around 3. walked around venice on Sunday, slept next to a canal, ate some free food, then headed back to siena!

Now my normal classes have started. I'm taking italian cinema, sociolinguistics, translation, creative arts, and i still have an italian language class. 3 of my classes have a 10 page paper due at the end of the semester... :-( boo work.

Last weekend Maraya and i went to Bologna- left siena around 12 on saturday and caught a train back to Siena at 5am sunday. We got a lot accomplished in Bologna... walked around a lot, drank cappucinos in a jazz cafe, looked around in a church, wore funny hats, sat on the steps of the library trying to preach to people in italian and ask where the university piazza was, and an assortment of other things. (thats a pic of bologna at the top)

Now we get ANOTHER break for about 10 days. On friday i head to London, then on Tuesday I go to Glasgow Scotland, then on thursday I go to Dublin... Ireland! yeaaaahh dublin

okaayy i'm sure i'll post again soon... maybe in a couple of months? okay i'll actually try this time.

byeee loves.