All right, I've been back in the States for almost a week now, but this needs to be done (and Christina yelled at me to do it, so I have motivation!).

( This is it. :/ )

I still can't get on using my own laptop, so pictures will have to wait until I'm back in the States. But tonight I took a final walk around Florence, pretty much spending the entire evening just wandering to wherever my whims took me ( Read more... )

This hostel is hilarious. The owner, Clara, runs everything by herself- including cooking everyone breakfast and serving it to us in our rooms- and last night she went out to party (she's in her twenties) and just left two of the more trustworthy guests in charge of locking up the common room. Not terribly responsible, but it's got a really fun ( Read more... )

Today has been ridiculously hard. I've spent the entire day being pretty much two seconds away from bursting into tears, because I had to leave my host family this morning and it wrenched at my already fragile emotions ( Read more... )

100 words
Speedtest
That's only two less than I thought, and I screwed up a few times because I was thinking too hard about it ( Read more... )

This is probably the second-to-last picture post I'll be making on this trip, with the last being from my final couple of days in the hostel. These are from the parties we've been thrown by the staff, and from our trip to the Boboli Gardens.

( Pictures yay )

Concerning Rome again. It is Very Serious, so if you don't like Very Serious things you're in the wrong place!

First, we have my high-quality and well-trained photographic skills on display with sepia pictures
( sepia pictures )

I got a perfect score on my Italian final.

...unfortunately I can't expect anything like that for Art History, but I'll sure try!

( And part of day three, since there wasn't much. )

( Finally! )