I'm so sad. Everyone is leaving. Most people have already left. some are already home. and we leave on wednesday morning. our apartment is pretty much packed up and it looks so bare. But even though i'm going to miss it here, i'm really excited about seeing everyone at home. i'm a little bit worried about how shelle's going to react. i just hope no one gets hurt. So. Last tuesday, keri sarah and i headed out to Fiumicino airport to fly to amsterdam. i hate flying. keri ended up with the worst flight experience though. she didnt get to sit [View Full Entry]

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Yesterday was our day for final exams. we still have a couple of projects due on mon. that i still need to do some work on. but instead i'll catch up on this thing. the exams were pretty easy, but it was terrible getting ready for them. that morning was soo rainy and miserable and i got soaked. i think rome is going to float away. the tiber is flooded so much i dont think we're going to see the sidewalks again before we leave. i cant believe we're leaving so soon. Megann left this morning and Rachel is leaving tomorrow. [View Full Entry]

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Even though i'm pretty relieved to know that i wont have to go on any more 12 hour train rides across the continent any time soon, i'm still pretty sad about the fact that i'm almost done with my semester here. I ended my 6th day of rail travel with our trip to Munich for thanksgiving weekend. Keri and Sarah and I started out trip from Rome on Wednesday night after another long wednesday, and since we didnt book sleeper cars, we spent the night in an uncomfortable box with some initially irate italian lady and did not sleep, or at [View Full Entry]

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Keri, Sarah, and I are leaving for Munich tonight so i figured i should update before i have too much to write about. This past weekend, almost everyone went out of town except for a couple of us. Keri and i went around to do some stuff we've been meaning to do but havent' yet around rome. We found the gelato place near the pantheon that's supposed to be the best in town or something. it was soo good. best flavors ever. esp honey almond. yum. we also went down to do some window shopping at the galleria because they had [View Full Entry]

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Ahh got back from Venice last night. everyone else is still there, but keri adn sarah and i decided to come back early because its really expensive to stay there and we saw everything in the first day anyway. Venice is so beautiful though. Gorgeous. Started out pretty rough though. Since keri sarah rachel and samantha and i all had eurail passes we didnt get the reservations for the train and were just going to use our passes instaead. going fine until about florence until the guy came by to check our passes and told us we had to pay 20 [View Full Entry]

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Not too much has been going on lately, just some midterms and studying and hanging out around town. But yesterday we had our day trip to Caprarola and Bagnaia, which were about and hour and a half north of Rome. It was a really fun trip because we jsut looked at some villas and gardens and played around in them. It must have been really fun to have been friends with the Farnese family. their gardens were really sweet. this one fountain was a fake cave that they had water drip down from the ceiling into a pool below. very cool. [View Full Entry]

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So last sunday was the papal mass!! it was an amazing experience. not only was this an opportunity to go to receive mass from the pope, but it was a cannonization mass where he cannonized 5 saints. how cool is that? so anyway that morning we all got up super early to get ready and go. The mass itself started at like 9:30 or 10:00 but we had to get there at about 7 in order to get into the gates and get seats. We all meet at teh bridge before the sun was even up and walk into St. Peter's [View Full Entry]

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So we went to Florence last weekend. I jsut havent had the energy to write all about it on here. I know taht the longer i take to update, the more i'm going to have to write about when i do, but that makes me feel even more overwhelmed about writing so i just don't. So i am just going to recap the main events from Florence. Train ride there. yay pretty tuscany. dropped luggage off at hotel and went to see some churches or something. a museum on architecture. a library. the uffizzi gallery. that i enjoyed. i got to [View Full Entry]

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seriously. best place on earth. ok i'm lying a little bit on this journal b/c i'm not actually in switzerland anymore. but i wanted to put another country on here. so anyway, last thursday night we got all our crap together and took the bus to termini from school. i had to wear my coat b/c i didnt have room to pack it adn we got on such a crowded bus and i was sweating so bad and we werent very happy. but we got to termini early and got some delicious mcdonalds. the train station wasnt as scary as imagined. [View Full Entry]

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alrighty its lunch break on my horrible wednesday. dante and italian got switched so we had italian this morning. easier to concentrate when i'm not so exhausted. but still i was ready to get out of there. plus we're not getting out of school today til 6:30 and i have to go to standa before they close at 8 to get the stuff for switzerland!! yay we're going to switzerland tomorrow! i have to buy gloves and a hat and some bread and nutella and apples. and then i need to pack tonight. Yesterday we were supposed to go to some [View Full Entry]

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