Venezia

So I spent Thursday and Friday in Venice, and it was pretty awesome, although completely exhausting. It's SO touristy, and since there are no cars it feels like Epcot. We visited the Basilica di San Marco (which was built around 900AD). It was absolutely gorgeous and there was a great view of the water from the top. We had a group meal that night and it was DELICIOUS. Pictures are posted in my Venezia album so you can drool on your screen.

Saturday we took the longest ferry ride of our lives to three of the little islands in Venice. It was gorgeous, but also unnecessarily long and hot. We got lunch after and I had the most delicious crepe ever. The food in Venice was definitely better than the food in Florence--so far at least.

Later on Saturday we went to the Peggy Guggenheim museum. It's a huge collection of modern art and it was a nice chance of pace from all the Renaissance art we've been seeing. After the museum we boarded the train and I slept all the way back to Florence.

Today has been a lazy day for catching up on sleep, and my roommates and I are having house dinner tonight--Pecorino e pere ravioli (pear and pecorino cheese). We also bought pumpkin and lemon ravioli, so I'm kind of excited.

I'm feeling much better after my "I hate everyone in this program" rant. In Venice some of the girls told me that I need to loosen up more and drink more, and then last night when we got back one of my roommate's friends got so drunk I had to escort him in an ambulance to the hospital. One of my roommates went with me, even though neither of us knew him, and his friends ditched. So I no longer feel like I have anything to prove to these people, because I know what I'm here for and I know what I want out of this program, and I don't want to end up in a foreign hospital after vomiting in the street. Way to go, America. You make the world proud.

I think I'm going to buy shoes today. I need some really bad/I want some really bad.

Baci,

Athena