Luciagelato

Ciao I just got back from about 10 days of traveling. First to Sicilia alone, then to Napoli where I met some friends and Katie, then we went together to Pescara to visit my family for Easter. I will start with a revised excerpt from my journal on the fifth day of my journey. 19/04/11 This is my fifth day in Sicilia. I got here last Friday after waking up at the butt crack of dawn, taking the train to Roma, then another to the airport where I was nervous about them seeing my passport and kicking me out of the country. All was fine and I didn’t get deported. After the plane to Palermo I took another two trains and finally arrived in Castellammare Del Golfo, the town I was couch surfing in. The station ... read more

Buon Giorno, Today is a beautiful day in Italia. I am lying in the grass covered with daisies. Next to me one of our cats is lounging and purring, her pregnant tummy soaking up the sun. The birds are chirping all around me. Life is sweet. I just returned from my long weekend in the mountains. My experience was full of beauty and adventure but also with a bit of internal conflict. For this reason, this blog entry may sounds a bit more pensive and a bit less comical. I headed out Thursday morning. My bag was brimming with all of the warm clothes I have, a sheet, a towel and a borrowed sleeping bag. I was wearing a rain jacket and rain boots. I was ready for the mountains. I caught the 7am train and ... read more

This is an excerpt from my journal that I took with me on my trip, with a bit of embellishment. 02/26/11, 6:22am “At the airport way early, still dark out, want to be in bed. We took three trains yesterday to get to Bologna. For the most part it went smooth. It was too and a half years ago when I first came to Bologna. It was Naomi and I and the extent of our visit was walking approximately two steps out of the train station, eating pizza and making up stories about the Italian man we were stalking who we named Antonio and decided was a model. Oh and I can’t forget that we also used the McDonald’s bathroom. The view of the city from the train station is quit misleading. If I would ... read more

La neve and other exciting things. Last night, while Katie and I were getting dressed to be fashionably late to this strange music film show we were invited to, it started to snow. I first realized this when a man, a friend of Katie’s new roommates, walked into katie’s apartment covered with snow. I said “Piacere” (nice to meet you) then ran to the window. The view of Viterbo covered in snow from Katie’s room at the fifth floor of the apartment building was spectacular. I reached my hands out in an attempt to catch the large fluffy white snowflakes. After my hands started turning red, I retrieved them from outside, closed the window, did a snow dance then finished getting ready so I could go out to play. Katie and I were almost the only ... read more

Wow a New year already. A new year to celebrate, a new year for adventure, a new year for love, nature, peace and friends. My mom and my wishes of being in Italia together finally came true. First we said we would make the trip when I turned 16, that never happened so then we said when I turned the big 18, it never happened then either so we got tattoos instead. Then I was 20 and living in Italia and she decided she had to make it happen, what better time to celebrate in Italia than for my 21st and her 50th birthday. She was on standby so she was supposed to get in on the 21st but it didn't work out that way. She went to the airport about 4 times trying to get ... read more

Ciao, I hope you all are enjoying the holidays and not getting too sucked into consumerism☺ I am having mixed feelings right now. My mom has been trying to get to me on standby, I know, worst time of year. She was supposed to get here on the 21st but I am still waiting and she is still trying. She will get here soon I know. But for now I am sitting in my kitchen alone, knitting, eating walnuts and listening to Eva Cassidy and Simon and Garfunkel. Voglio mia mamma per natale, I want my mom for Christmas. At the same time, I am enjoying my alone time. I have been surrounded by lots of people ever since I moved away to college two and a half years ago. I have grown to love being ... read more

Here are some photos from two weeks ago. this is me procrastinating ... read more

Buon Giorno Tutti! Oggi e molto freddo ma anche bellisimo It has been so cold lately but also very sunny and beautiful. I have so much to catch you all up on but I think I will skim over some and leave some smaller things out. I want to start by telling you about some of the big changes in my life right now. The semester is ending in a few days but I am not ready to leave Italia. I knew I wouldn’t be ready to leave so early so I thought ahead and booked my ticket back in May. I was brainstorming of ways to stay here and things I could do and I thought of Wwoofing. Wwoof is a really awesome program that hooks people up to work on various organic farms all ... read more

Buon Giorno While my wonderful Italian thanksgiving is the main focus of this entry, of course I must add in other events as well. Tuesday and Wednesday nights are students nights here in Viterbo. I think it is ridiculous that they chose Tuesday and Wednesday nights, I mean I still have to wake up at 8am the next morning. Anyway I finally sucked it up and went out on a Tuesday night. We went to Raverse with some of our Italian friends, the only place to dance here. People don’t usually go out until 12 so I thought it was silly that we got there at 10:30, but it was nice to just chill and talk and drink a little with our friends. When people finally started showing up we got up and danced. It was ... read more