Bajardo is a breathtakingly beautiful town... We are all living in these little houses that are made of bricks and stone and cement up this tiny hill at the end of town. My house is at the bottom so i don't have too many rocks to climb to get up there but getting luggage to the top of that hill was a trek. The houses are nice but i pretty much feel like we don't live in civilization anymore. There is no interent, the water is rain water, the floors are all cement, there are bugs everywhere and we have just enough food and supplies to get by. I could definitely see it as a place you could visit but i could never ever imagine myself living there.
Since we all got in Bahardo, on saturday we all ate dinner together in this near the houses, played a few games and had a movie night. It was great just to hang out and relax after the long exhausting week of orientation.
After being woken up by the ridiculously loud church bells at 7 am, I went to mass on sunday with some of my friends which was really nice. The church was beautiful. I didn't really understand everything that was going on but i kind of picked up on where we were in the mass and was attempting to speak the italian so i felt pretty good about it. We also went on this treacherous hike in the woods on one of the mountains to find this river that apparently doesn't exist. About three groups went down looking for it and not one found it. We must have hiked for a little more than 3 hours. I have so many scratches from thorns and plants on my legs it looks like i got attacked by a bear or something. It was pretty nuts and exhausting...very fun though. Later, Arrigo's friend came and made us dinner and i think it was almost the best pasta we've had all week with the exception of the pesto lasagna....pretty greatstuff. Last night the italia/spain game was on so we huddled into the piazza and then a bar in town to watch it. I've never really been into soccer but let me tell you i was freaking out last night...it was intense....i think it must have been the left over exhilaration/craziness in me that i didn't get to express for the celtics. Unforunately italia lost in a shoot out....4-2. It was devesating.
As you can tell by me posting this, we came down on the bus to san remo today. We found the beach with the sand which was great, played some games, got a tan...all those fabulous things. I am going to be so tan when i get back to watertown, you guys won't even recognize me...well that's the plan anyways. We got some mcd's for lunch (HAHAHAH) and now are gonna hang around until we can take the crazy trip back up the mountain. It's a ridiculously twisty and turny one and i'm hoping no one gets sick. Tonight we're gonna throw a party and hopefully sleep very late tomorrow morning.
On wednesday we'll be going to cannes and monte carlo (woot!woot!) which should be a blast and we'll find out our camp locations on thursday. This whole experience has been pretty great so far, i'm going to be really sad when we all have to separate for our respective camps on saturday...i feel like we've kind of turned into this one big family. All the other tutors here are wicked awesome and i hope us actually saying we are going to keep in touch means we will. I've already got semi plans to visit chicago and montreal. Kristen, Cara and I will probably hang out in boston too!!! wooot!!!
alright i should be going....lots of peeps in line to use the internet here. I'm not sure when i'll be able to get on this again but hopefully soon. love and miss you all!!!!
again please call me anytime this week....it's freeeeee and i have lots of time.
love, lauren
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