Hello all! So I realize it has been a while since I wrote.. Maybe a week or so but I thought I would just tell you about what has happened so far! Classes are going so great I love all of them and they are so interesting. Its cool to look out your classroom window and see a huge beautiful church sitting there. I just feel so lucky to be here I love it.
So last weekend was my first big trip outside of Perugia. We went to 4 cities Siena, Florence, Pisa and Lucca. We started in Siena, which about an hour bus ride from Perugia. We got there and it was so pretty! Siena is a smaller town like Perugia but they had the prettiest Duomo I have seen. Most of the work in the Duomo was done by Michelangelo which was so awesome. The picture on the right is what it looks like on the outside. All around it was such a great time in Siena.
We then stayed the night in Florence that night and it was so crazy. I am really happy I am not studying abroad there because I don’t know if I could handle the amount of people. With so many people around it is much easier to get things stolen from you. So I ended up walking with my backpack in front of me because it’s the safest way to make sure all your stuff is safe. But the hostel I stayed in was actually really nice. I was expecting something way worse because we only paid 15 euro a night. But it actually was on the 5th floor of this building and you could see the city of Florence like in the picture to the left. It was so cool
The next day (Saturday) we took the train to Pisa! Pisa was not all that it was cracked up to be. It really only had the tower of Pisa and that was about it. So we got there and had to walk about half an hour to the tower. When you saw the tower you just had to take a second and laugh it off. The fact that they build a tower on sand cracks me out. But it was cool =] I did the classic holding the tower of pisa up as you can see. I don’t think I will ever go back to Pisa but it was still worth the time to see the leaning tower.
After Pisa we went to another small town called Lucca. Going to Lucca we didn’t know much about the town at all really. All my teachers told me that it was worth the effort to go there and check it out. They were so right. Lucca may be one of my favorite towns I have been to. We got there and it was just so green. The picture with the water and the green grass is from Lucca. Seriously a fantastic time and the best food EVER!! I got pasta and it was sooo good I ate it so slowly just so I could savor it. It was incredible.
Then we went back to Florence to spend the night and hung out in Florence the whole day Sunday. Florence is a seriously beautiful city but it’s so crazy with tourists. There also is way to much to do in just one weekend. You would have to stay in Florence for a whole week to see everything here. Although I didn’t get to see much I was able to see a museum with statues and painting from the Duomo in it. Again Michelangelo’s sculptures were so awesome. One of the famous ones is called “Mary with the glass eye” in one of the pictures on the right there is Mary and if you look close you can see the glass eye. Then we went back home =]
Well that is all for now. I am also in the process of uploading all my pictures onto an online photo album. So I am working on that should be up in the next week or so just so you can see all my pictures from my trips. Miss and love you all
-catherine
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