OliviainItaly

June 19 My wonderful alarm never went off this morning. WONDERFUL. So all my hopes of going to Cinque Terre today are eliminated. Something like this would happen! ARGH After sitting in disbelief for a while we decide to walk around FLorence. The city we've been living in for a month but have basically yet to roam. We go to the market. The day is good for us present wise. Get gifts for whoever we needed to get gifts for and just relaxed. I bought SlumDog Millionaire so we watched it on the computer once we got back. Lounging felt so good for once. Eating food, being lazy. Sounded all perfect to me :) June 20 We head to Piazza Indipendenza around 930 to get on our bus to Sorona. We are going to the spa ... read more

I am going to update what I've been doing soon but today around 4 pm I found out that a friend of mine passed away this morning at 2 30. He was only 17 yrs old and was shot due to a quarrel in a parking lot in Land O Lakes, FL. He is my best friends, Steven, cousin so it definitely hits home for me... I wish I could go back for the funeral but all I can think of is why someone would pull the trigger on someone else. It makes you realize how unsafe you actually are in the world around you. You never think this will happen to you but thats my second friend that has gone to heaven in the past 9 months... RIP Jen Spiegel and Dustin White.... Another angel ... read more