The Sun Comes Out

The First Two Weeks

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January 22nd 2010
Ok. So far this blog has been a fail. i keep starting it, and then something happens to my internet and it completely takes everything away because i keep forgetting to save it. maybe just after each sentence i should hit save. i have been in bologna exactly two weeks. we left the united states on thursday january 7 and arrived here friday morning january 8. we arrived in bologna to a dreary, gra ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more