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Yesterday my sister and I left with Valentina to Cisterna di Latina's train station at 8:20am. At 8:45 we all took the train to Roma Termini; Valentina was going to work and Sylvia and I were going to spend the day with with Alejandra, Ada Maria, and Ada (My friend Sal's relatives) to visit the colosseum (which I haven't seen in 8 years) and the foro romana (I still don't know what that is.) After meeting up with Alejandro at the train station we took the metro to the colosseum. It was packed as hell. I felt like I was on a subway in China where they have people who wear masks and gloves and are hired to push everybody in so they could fit. I was shocked. I was so shocked I wanted to laugh ... read more

There are some interesting things that I noticed about Milano and I was told that this is very common: There are a lot of street vendors, performers, and beggars. The street vendors are often indian-looking or African and they are the most annoying people here. A lot of them hound you to buy something that they’re selling and they’ll hang around whining about how they don’t have a job and they really need the money and they won’t leave you alone until you really ignore them. And when I say ignore I mean just literally pretending they’re not there and maybe start talking to the people that you’re with. That’s the technique that works. However, my father is the kind of Italian, that will vent his feelings about whoever or whatever is bothering him so there ... read more

Today we left Hanjo’s house and we are waiting for our plane to Mailand. That’s german for MILANO, BABY!!!! We are really excited for the next chapter of our trip but we will definitely still think back on the awesome time we had in Germany with our very good friends. Last night was the most memorable part. My sister and I went out with Hanjo's sons and Hanjo gave us the keys to the apartment so that we wouldn't have to wake anyone up when we came home and we could come back at any time. We had a beer and talked at their apartment with Moritz's girlfriend there too and we just laughed about all the differences between our cultures and about all the interesting things that we discovered during our stay. Later they dropped ... read more