hi jessie!

thanks daddy :)

Update/Pictures!

So we started class yesterday - and I really like it (woooo!). All of my teachers keep asking if i know the meaning of Quattrini (que significo?) And i surprise them when i know that it means "little money." Class is kind of long - 6 hours a day. And we already have a test on thursday. I guess usually on this program they stay in florence for 3 weeks instead of 2 - so we're taking the 3 weeks worth of classes in 2 weeks. But oh well. I'm excited to get to rome.

Florence is really pretty! Today during our lunch break from classes Amanda and I got sandwiches from Gionnis (mozzarella, tomatoes, and pesto) and a bottle of white wine. We ate in this little piazza right outside our school where there are a bunch of doggies chasing pidgeons by a fountain. There's one woman who we've seen walking her dog everyday that looks like a giant Jessie...I'm going to talk to her tomorrow and find out what her dog is! And take a picture.

Tomorrow we have more class but afterwards we're going to Pisa. On friday we leave for Venice for the weekend, and next wednesday we're going to Siena and thursday Feisole.

I put up the pictures i've taken here but i haven't taken very many :( i'll be better about that i promise!!

Oh my favorite phrase i've learned so far - "ciao, cani!" (hi doggies)

florence is so pretty!!! it looks a little like des moines. not.

anyways today we basically walked around florence all day exploring and whatnot. we had lunch at an italian restaurant owned by a family which was SO good but had about 5 courses, which was too much (even for me and amanda).

we're in our hotel room with two other girls, danielle from san francisco who goes to UCSB and caitlin from berkley who goes to UCLA. we really like them - and we get along really well. our hotel is HUGE and AWESOME and our room is so much better than the holiday inn in london! tonight we're going on a pub crawl around florence, should be fun.

i'm starting to feel ill....if i have swine flu i'll be severely pissed.

we don't have any obligations tomorrow which is great. we start class on monday, though. 3 hours on m/w/f and 5 hours on t/th. yeesh. we also go to venice next weekend.

anyways, gonna take a nap!

peaaace.

ps. saw about 203948023984023 doggies today - i like this place.

game on, brooke davis.

also - just watched the first 4 minutes of the One Tree Hill premiere on perez.

IT LOOKS AWESOME. i feel better.

group travel is really easy and efficient.

we're at the heathrow airport waiting for our gate to open. we have a while before we're actually in florence - probably like 9 or 10 hours. so thats daunting, but we'll be there eventually.

I MISS MOM AND DAD AND JESSIE :( :( :( :(

jet lag blows

I'M SO TIRED. toured london all day with amanda, getting up at 6:00 to fly to rome and take a 4 hour bus ride to florence. oof. i just want to be there.

we went to an italian restaurant in notting hill for dinner...not like we'll be eating italian food for the next 3 months or anything. BUT it was good - had linguine pesto (pesto mommy!!).

we met these two weird guys last night at an irish pub - they were both wearing I LOVE MJ buttons that we thought were kinda cool at first but it turns out that they're in some weird fan club that like traveled around following him and went to his funeral and stuff. weird. one of them had to walk away when we brought up his death.

he has since developed depression.

i'm hoping we have internet in florence - but we'll see.

i miss jessie.

YOU SOUND LIKE YOURE FROM LUN-DUHN!

Haaaaaave arrived in London. Its cold. But very very pretty. We got here at 6am, took a bus to our hotel in Kensington, got breakfast at a pub called Garfunkels (no beer that early, we asked), and took a 5 hour nap. Its now 4:20 and we're getting ready to go to meet the rest of our group for drinks at 6! Tomorrow we have a touristy doubledecker bus tour of London at 9 and then we're gonna got shopping at Harrods :) :) We leave for florence on friday morning aaaat abouuuut 7am.

I've already made a huge mess in the room - shocking.

And I miss mom and dad and jessie. My framed Jessie picture is up by my bed already :)