Originally I had wanted to go to Siena this weekend but, realizing how far it is and how expensive it would have been to stay over night, I looked at a map and picked two random towns in the area as destinations. Friday we, Katie, Sarah and myself, decided on Cortona, a hill-top town in Tuscany where 'Under the Tuscan Sun' was filmed! The train ( Read more... )

Nobody warns you what a culture shock grocery shopping can be! I needed a few groceries and my roommate wanted to bake cookies so she sent me with a list of ingredients down to the big coop by the train station. I went with my friend Allison, and only after I got there and started wandering around the isles did I realize that I didn't know what any ( Read more... )

A venerdi ho mangato con mi amice, alla loro appartamento. abbiamo mangato pollo, risso, carote, broccoli, e pane. poi, siamo andate due pub e uno discoteque. A sabato, con mie compagne di stanza, siamo andate a la marketo vicino il stadio. Molto freddo!!! Ho comprato una giacca per cinque euro! A domenica siamo andate un giacca di footbal! Otto ( Read more... )

I was invited over for Friday night dinner at a friend's apartment last night. It was really nice, the girls in that apartment (Julie, Renita, Amanda and Sarah) are all really sweet and I had a really good time. I lit candles with Sarah, who baked her own challah!!! and we did the Friday night service after dinner together. It was nice to have a ( Read more... )

Ever try to walk down a steep frozen hill? I wouldnt recommend it (it actually reminded me of the time I intelligently decided to ski on iced-over snow...) It did occur to me that if I was having this much trouble getting down the hill to class that I wasnt quite sure how I was going to be getting back up... Thank goodness for the throngs of high ( Read more... )

There was snow on the rooftops this morning when I got up, though none on the ground. It made for a beautiful picture out of my living room window, to see the hilltops sprinkled with snow and the sloping roofs in red and white ( Read more... )

hey, what do you want to do this weekend? i dunno, wanna go to rome? yeah, ok, let's go ( Read more... )

walking towards an unforeseeable destination, can't see what's ahead, hard to see clearly what's behind, dodging danger as it rounds each corner, going on despite it all ( Read more... )

erin lindsay and i ended up staying up way too late talking last night so i ended not going to sleep until almost 4am. i had a really long day today because i had class from 10-2 and then 3-5, but i survived. im going to go to bed early tonight so hopefully with more sleep ill be a little more sane ( Read more... )

It's amazing the difference the weather can make. Yesterday was miserable; I was tired all day, nothing seemed to be going well, I was feeling alone and introverted, and to top everything off I realized that I no longer am in posession of my ATM card! Granted, I understand that last part didn't have anything to do with the weather, but the fact ( Read more... )