Just finished up my last classes. Exams next week and then we're done... and it's really weird. Time flys, but I really don't know where the last 3 months went. I can walking into the hostel at 5 in the morning on the very first day in Macerata like it was yesterday and now we have to pack up our apartments, clean the spaghetti off the kitchen walls, throw out the empty wine bottles, and leave in a week.
Since I last wrote, we went to Rome for our last excursion. We saw everything that Filiberto could pack into 3 days, of course and it was awesome. The weather was beautiful which was completely different than our luck in Florence. We did the Colosseum and walked around Palatine Hill, toured the Vatican museums, Sistine Chapel, climbed St. Peter's, saw the Forum, Bernini's fountain, the Pantheon, etc...oh yeah, and found gelato. An essential. I don't know if I like Rome or Florence better, they are kind of like apples and oranges though. Rome is definitely more touristy, but we found a couple places in the few days we were there that most tourists don't know about like this park with orange trees and a great view of the city.
I met my tandem partner, Serena, for the last time on Tuesday night. We went to Pathos, a local cafe. She was leavin
g to go home for Easter Break. Italians get a whole week for Easter, kind of like our spring break. She isn't coming back until the 12th so I'll be gone before she gets back. I don't know if I'll ever see her again, but I'm glad I decided to get a partner because it was cool to have an Italian friend...I wish we had more time to hang out though. She was sweet and I didn't get to know her very well. She also made me speak Italian sometimes, so I would have learned a lot with her...
Tomorrow Molly, Alyson, and I leave on a 5 am train to Naples. The tentative schedule is to do Pompeii Friday, Capri and Visuvius Saturday, and Naples Sunday. We're staying in Sorrento and apparently there are a lot of Easter celebrations throughout all of Italy. So we'll see how southern Italy does Easter. I'm so excited..It's supposed to be warm and beautiful. We're gonna try to find the pizzeria in Naples that invented the Margerita pizza. So...hopefully, somewhere in there I'll get some studying done?
I need to go start cleaning out my apartment out...and packing.
Happy April Fools Day!
Buona Pasqua!
