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I have been trying to get to Venice before I left Italy so I finally was able to go Saturday. I didn't actually know who I was going with until I showed up at the train station at 8am on Saturday. I found out a few people from the Wells program were going and I just decided to tag along. Actually, I thought one of the girls I was close with at the beginning was going with everyone, that's why I initially decided to go. However, when I got to the train station I stood around for about an hour, after 45 minutes I thought they had already left and was just about to forget the whole thing, but a girl on my program, Cat, and a couple other girls from my program (Jenny, Kalee, and ... read more

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to go home for Thanksgiving this semester, being in Italy and all. The Wells program sponsored a Thanksgiving dinner for everyone though since we all couldn't be with our families and homesickness is starting to set in. It was at Accademia and our advisor and his wife ate Thanksgiving dinner with us. It was weird to have school on Thanksgiving and not celebrate it until the dinner. The dinner was very good though, of course there was red wine served. We had a soup for the 1st course, it was an orange-ish color, but we couldn't figure out what it was. Then we had the real Thanksgiving food, turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, etc. The restaurant has an American chef so it was a real American Thanksgiving. For dessert, they had pumpkin pie ... read more

Day 1 Me and my roommate, Caryn and our friend, Ben, on our abroad program went to Paris this past weekend. We flew into Paris Friday morning through AirFrance. We got in around 9:30am but we spent 2 hours in traffic on the way to the hotel. I had only gotten 4 hours of sleep so i was frustrated but once we were out of traffic it was fine. We got to the hotel, we stayed at Le Meridien. It was very very nice and everyone was so nice to us and helped us out a lot. The rooms were also very nice, beds were so comfortable. It was nice to be able to sleep on an actual bed instead of a cot like I have in Florence. It was also nice to not have to ... read more

My roommate Megan and I heard there was a Beatles cover band on a Monday night at a bar that we frequently go to. It was mostly girls because it was sponsored by Bus2Alps, which is a travel program for students abroad that takes care of transportation and hostels. Megan and i were so exhausted that night, we only were there for half of the set. We ran into my trip leader for Prague and played darts with him and another Bus2Alps guy while waiting for the band to start. We also got invited to play darts with, at the time we did not realize, "Paul" and "George". We said no because we thought they were just creepy guys, we regretted not play darts as soon as they got up on the stage though. The band ... read more

We came back from Madrid on Tuesday so we still had a couple days of Fall break left. Me and my roommate decided to go to Milan for the day. We took the train and it took about 2 1/2 or 2 hours and 45 minutes to get there. Once we got there, we went to the Duomo in Milan. It was very pretty, I think it was better than the Duomo in Florence, but just the front of it. We didn't get to climb to the top. Instead, we spent a few hours trying to decide what we wanted to do. There are a lot of churches to see in Milan, but we didn't go to those. We went to where the shopping was, which was not that far from the Duomo. We saw the ... read more