We went exploring for dinner and man was it great! The restaurant was absolutely to die for, I had another amazing pizza (typical) with sausage on it. It was also great seeing Radhika (the alum) one last time before she leaves. After dinner we went to a small little hole-in-the-wall place called Ciocoloto e vino. The concept is that you order one of their shots from the menu and it is served very elaborately: whipped cream, chocolate liquors, sprinkles, cocoa, ...

This weekend was downright amazing! We left Rome Thursday afternoon to take the train to Florence. It only took us an hour and 45 minutes, which was a pleasant surprise after last weekend. We got there and walked to our hotel, which was only about a ten minute walk. We settled in, then went as a group on a walking tour of Florence. It started to rain which wasn't exactly fun, but the city was so beautiful and different from the other cities we've seen so far ...

Today was a normal school day. Laurel and I accidentally slept in -- we had intentions of going to see the inside of the Pantheon but we're going to have to save that for another day now, woops! We attended classes then headed home to freshen up, then a group of 7 of us from the trip all went together to go on a walking tour that one girl had found in her travel book. Well, on the way, we of course, blew right past the piazza we were supposed to start in and en...

Today was a relatively easy day compared to yesterday. We attended Cinema class this afternoon (after having lunch at home with all our groceries we bought - yay!) then had a tour of the Forum and the Palantino (which we learned in class is the premis of the English word Palace, it is where the emperor lived and conducted business, little fun fact). It of course started raining as soon as we got there, but it stayed light enough for us to finish our tour. We th...

Today was a very long day. We woke up early and went grocery chopping before class to begin saving money on food -- 20 euro each got us breakfast, lunch, and snacks for the week, so much better than retaraunts! We then headed to school, but our tram got stopped due to a teacher's strike in the road, and it sent us backwards before letting us off, so we then had to walk to class and were late. We went to Cinema, and then headed home to change to get ready to see...