28.01.2009
Hello again.
I’m sitting in my apartment atop the Piazza del Mercato Centrale. I don’t overlook anything except a “courtyard” which is not exactly spectacular. The other girls took the rooms with a view. I had a slight meltdown today.. I feel like a peasant compared to all my roommates.. my roommates are all friends slash sorority girls who are opposite of Jess and I… so what do I do? Call my mom and say “I’m having the worst day of my life and I’m in Europe for it!” So if you’d like to start a “pump money to Lauren” fund, that’d be fabulous.
I felt like yesterday was a blur. We got up early and went on our walking tour of Florence (it was gorgeous outside by the way). We got to see the four main areas of Florence that are mainly divided by what church/order of priests are over there. It was really good and very informational… though I probably would have appreciated it a little more had it not started at 9:30 (3:30 am at home). They brought us to a bunch of cool places like the Medici palaces, Il David (who is behind scaffolding at the moment), Dante’s house, and a bunch of other places. The tour guide was great and I felt bad that we were all so tired because she was pretty into it and we weren’t.
Then at night, we took a bus tour (aka they rented city busses and we drove all around the city while standing up). We got to go to where the copy of il David is, which overlooks the city. Gorgeous.
Today we moved into our apartments. And I bought 3 bottles of wine for 10 Euro and they’re actually pretty good and probably equivalent to a 12-15 dollar bottle at home.
I need to sleep now..I’m gonna try not to make these posts long anymore .. haha

Also.. I'll figure out pictures soon.. stupid internet..