that's right i made it. I am in firenze and ok so its been almost a week since i've last updated. i'm sorry about that. next time i talk myself out of bringing my laptop on these abroad adventures smack me.
the end of camp was alright. my kids were crazy bananas the last week and put on a show called the "what can you do?" game show. they weren't very good and needed to use scripts to remember their lines unfortunately. That thursday all the tutors and directors went out for dinner...and actually all drink together on a normal social basis. It was nice to be able to hang with the other tutors at night outside of the occassional beach trip after camp.
Saturday i headed to ROSETO degli ABBRUZZI. On the way there was a turn off the highway for sulmona and i wished for one more day so i could get there and get to where my dad was born. I stayed with alessandra who is amazinggggg. Seriously, i love that girl. We went to the beach both days and when she was working saturday night she made sure that i was out with her friends. Them teaching me to speak proper italian and making them practice english was hilarious. We all had a wonderful time. Sun night we had arrosticini (it's sheep on a stick...i know sounds funny right?)....it was amazing. Apparently you can only get it in abbruzzo and i will miss it cuz it was phenomenal.
Roma was the next spot on my adventure. I stayed at the yellow which was a great hostel minus the fact i didnt see my roomates at all (except there sleeping bodies when i strolled in early tuesday morning). I was supposed to meet up with Eric (fellow tutor in the scau) for the la luna fest (celebrating 40 years since apollo 11) but it didnt end up happening unfortunately. Moby was performing for free and it was pretty sick. We both ended up going but didnt see each other with the 10000 or so other people there. I also saw Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince in English which was wicked great minus the end (i wanted dumbledore's funeral with the big white tomb). In addition to walking through and by some famous piazzas and things i've seen before, I hit up the Pantheon (which was magnificient) and St. Peter's Basilica and Dome in the Vatican. Climbing the steps of that dome was interesting. It got so tiny and hot and claustrophobic. The view was absolutely breathtaking when you got to the top. You could pretty much see all of Roma. I can't wait to do it again tommorow at the Duomo here in Firenze.
Well alright seeing as it's 1:14 in the morning here and i have a full day of sightseeing to do tommorow, i should be off. We'll see what happens with updating tommorow or thursday. But if not i'll talk to ya in Zurich (this 13 hour layover is gonna be a bitch).
Can't wait to see you all!!
amore,
lauren
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