A last minute trip was to Perugia. We just took the train from Florence, it was about 2 hours or so, not too bad. It was a very pretty train ride too so it went by fast. Once we got there, we had to follow a tour group because we had to take a bus and there were about 5 different routes that they were going so we just tagged along. After we got off the bus, it was quite a walk to the actual festival. The festival only lasts 2 weeks and we went the last week. Perugia is where the Baci chocolate is made. They put chocolate on everything at this festival though. As soon as we walked into the festival, we got to taste chocolate pasta...it was not good. They have these cards ... read more

Prague was an excellent place to visit. I went there with three of my friends and we stayed in Czech Inn, it's a hostel and a hotel. However, the hostel room we stayed in was just as nice as a nice hotel. The only thing different was the bathroom. Breakfast was included in our travel package we chose and it was probably the best breakfast I have had in Europe so far. We arrived in Prague Friday at around 11am, it ended up being a 13 hour drive from Florence. We then got to do a walking tour of Prague and had a very funny tour guide who knew we wouldn't remember dates so just stuck with the entertaining information such as that the movie Eurotrip was not filmed all over Europe but just in Prague. ... read more

We finally moved in to our apartment yesterday!!! It's really cool but they said I can get electrocuted by my bed because the frame is metal and there's electrical chords around it, so I think I'm just going to sleep on the couches. It doesn't have a/c so that sucks but other than it's pretty cool. You can see the kitchen from the living room which is kind of weird. I also think that I have bed bugs which they warned us about but I didn't think would happen...I've got to go check it out later. We've just been having orientation the past few days, they've finally let us on our own for a little bit. I went to dinner with a bunch of girls from the program. we got the internet tonight so we decided ... read more

2nd day I realized something today….I want to marry an Italian. You cannot tell how old they are and there are all tall dark and handsome. We started today with a language class which was difficult but informative. We learned greetings and how to ask how are you and how to answer, days, and months. A couple of girls and myself decided to just explore Rome for a couple hours so we went back to Fontana di Trevi and got a quick lunch. I just got a mozzarella and tomato sandwich (go figure). Everything is actually a lot cheaper than I thought it would be, a huge bottle of water is just ,80 but that could just be the area. Then we just walked…for a long time. We got a little lost but eventually found our ... read more