On the way to Venice with the school we stopped in two smaller, alliterative towns: Verona and Vincenza. They weren't too exciting to say the least, but were pretty mellow and the weather was nice, also I was finally starting to feel a little better so all-in-all it was a good day ( Read more... )

... for making sure I can experience Italian healthcare, and for ruining my first few days of warm weather. hah ( Read more... )

Censoooreeedd... Take that mom ( Read more... )

This was our last day in Amsterdam, and all we had rigidly on the schedule was an appointment at the Anne Frank museum at 5:30. We didn’t wake up until noon!! Definitely a late start, but we decided to go up to the man-made islands on the Eastern harbor and check out some of the modern architecture up that way. We went a sort of round-about route ( Read more... )

So today wasn’t exactly what I would have planned. We did a lot, saw a lot, and had fun. But we could have done more, saw more, and had more fun. Maybe that’s just me though, never satisfied. It wasn’t Amsterdam though; it was the lazy, constantly hungry, slow moving group of friends I was with. But such is life, and things can’t always go ( Read more... )

So the sex museum, I guess it was exactly what you’d expect a sex museum to be. Chastity belts, ancient erotic sculptures, giant penis chairs, animated wax figures, real, amateur, personal photographs of couples having sex from the 1950’s to the 1980’s, the first pornographic playing cards, ancient carvings of phallic symbols seamen made from ( Read more... )

Censored again, but you don't need caught up at all ( Read more... )

So for those of you who got the axed version, to make a long story short, everyone besides Jake and I went back to the hostel to nap ( Read more... )

Really this starts off more on Day 0. Our plane left at 06:00, but the last train into Pisa was at 02:00, so we had to leave that night around 24:30 ( Read more... )

I still don't really have much to say. I'm hoping Amsterdam with some new people will snap me out of it and I'll want to write again. But anyways yesterday we climbed to the top of the Dome for class and I at least wanted to make mention of it for posterity's sake ( Read more... )