....wind.
more coming soon ;)
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Reasons to Stay in Italy
Ladies and gentlemen, my classes for next semester at Stonehill College:
MWF 9:30am - Bio412: Neuroscience
W 1:30pm - Neuroscience Lab
TTH 8:30am - Psy451: Senior Capstone: Applying Psychological Principles
Th 6:30pm - CJ333: The Accused (Criminal law)
TTh 10:30am - SO227: Human Services
TTh 2:30pm - Psy411: Counseling Practicum I
Annnnnd there's a 5 hour requirement of an on-site counseling internship.
In other news, it's midterms week here in Italy. I stressed myself out studying tiny little details about my Mafia class, only to be greeted by a 4-question midterm that were the most broad, BS-able questions ever. I am going to miss that. haha :)
Has anyone ever been to either Prague or Vienna? Any suggestions on what to do there?
MWF 9:30am - Bio412: Neuroscience
W 1:30pm - Neuroscience Lab
TTH 8:30am - Psy451: Senior Capstone: Applying Psychological Principles
Th 6:30pm - CJ333: The Accused (Criminal law)
TTh 10:30am - SO227: Human Services
TTh 2:30pm - Psy411: Counseling Practicum I
Annnnnd there's a 5 hour requirement of an on-site counseling internship.
In other news, it's midterms week here in Italy. I stressed myself out studying tiny little details about my Mafia class, only to be greeted by a 4-question midterm that were the most broad, BS-able questions ever. I am going to miss that. haha :)
Has anyone ever been to either Prague or Vienna? Any suggestions on what to do there?
Saturday, March 14, 2009
ALRIGHT ALRIGHT HERE IT IS
I know you all are DYING to know SO badly what is going on in my life, since I’ve neglected to update this at all for the last three weeks.
Weelllll okay since my last update I’ve been to Milan, Venice, Athens, and Dublin.
Milan was very nice, although we were unable to see most of the city. The way our program structured the trip, we only got about five hours to get a walking tour and then wander on our own. It was nice, but there was less to do there than I would have liked.
Then the fun began. We had the worst luck EVER with our hotel that turned out to be a hostel. The first room we got, the beds were caved in. It also was lacking a toilet seat but had hair in the shower and droppings in the toilet to make up for it. Sooo I freaked out and ran down and made them change my room. We got to our second room, and there’s a toilet seat! But it doesn’t flush. And our door didn’t lock. So I go back and yell again and they fix it. We go to bed… and at 1:30 a.m. local time, someone keys into our room. So I shoot up in bed and yell HELLO? (because what else do you say?!) and whoever it was runs away yelling SCUZZA!!! It turns out it was only the night guard.. but still. Jess slept through this, in case you were wondering.. God love her haha.
After that we were back on our bus at 7 am, and we set off for Venice. Because it was the last Sunday in Carnivale, there were millions of people there. As in, Venice was at double its normal population. However it was absolutely beautiful, and I was able to see most things. No gondola rides (they were pretty expensive) but I did buy a bunch of Carnivale masks and Murano glass. I looooved Venice and I’d love to go back, but I’m rapidly running out of weekends. I also had some Bellini, which is some good stuff if you ask me!
The weekend after Venice, Jess and I woke up at … 3 am.. and got on a bus to the Pisa airport. We then got on the 7:10 am plane to Athens. Athens was probably the most incredible place I’ve been so far. The entire weekend(4 days, 3 nights) cost us $250 USD because everything we did was free for some reason. We saw the Acropolis, the central gardens, and climbed Mt. Lycabettus! We got to see all the ruins that are just scattered about the city… Greece was really cool. I’ve also discovered a love of Mousakas, their famous eggplant dish. I must have had it 4 times while I was there.
Last weekend I went to Dublin, to visit my friend Monica. Monica and I were best friends in elementary school, but she moved to Ireland when we were 11. However, I see her every summer. So I took the 6 am train to Rome, and flew from there to Dublin. The flight there was very turbulent, but the one on the way back was worse. People clapped when we landed.. the pilot basically just slammed the plane down on the runway because he just wanted it down – we were bouncing so much and would drop mid-air and were swaying back and forth.. ugh. Anyway, Dublin was a lot of fun and it was good to see both Monica and my friend Sam (from high school) who is studying there for the semester. Monica and I stalked Bono and went to his house. There was a lot less to do in Dublin than I thought there would be – however it was nice to go to a place where they spoke English, the signs were in English, etc. AND I BOUGHT PEANUT BUTTER!! It is a normal-sized jar of Jif, and I only paid about 4 Euro for it. A 3-oz thing of Skippy in Italy is 8 Euro. And I’m rapidly running out of the one I brought, so I was glad to find it so cheap.
We went to a little “typical Irish town” called Enniskerry a few minutes away from Dublin for lunch – it was so cute! At night, we went to a few (..maybe more than a few) Irish pubs. I didn’t get a Guinness, mostly because I didn’t feel like being ridiculously full the entire night. However, I tried some of Monica’s boyfriend’s. (He was sitting there alternating between Guinness and Jameson.. ew.) It was wayyy different than American Guinness – much smoother and a lot less bitter. Ummm, not that I would know that through experience or anything. One morning we went out for breakfast, and I got a “full Irish breakfast” … I tried the black pudding, which is blood sausage. It wasn’t .. bad? I mean it wasn’t good but it wasn’t bad either.
I do go to school in between these trips, I swear. I’m doing well. We have midterms next week, which is why I’m home this weekend. My Mafia class isn’t turning out the way I hoped – my teacher is really mean and yells at us when we don’t understand her (..she randomly switches into Italian). I would say that’s the hardest class. My cooking class is a lot of fun, our teacher took us out to dinner and charged it to school, so that was cool. We also did a wine tasting on Wednesday (at 9 am, ha) with that class, and we got to try three different kinds of Chianti. I didn’t realize that there were different kinds of Chianti. Go figure!
Today was a gorgeous day in Florence, it was sunny and 70 degrees out. I spent most of my day in a park studying for midterms. It’s nice to just stay in the city for a weekend! I found a big flea market too, and it had the craziest stuff there such as paintings and art from the 1500’. It was a high-class flea market I guess!
After midterms is our spring break. Here’s a list of upcoming events.
March 23-25: Prague
March 26-29: Vienna
April 4-5: Siena & Perugia
April 17: My friend Shawn (one of the Cumberland guys) is coming from Cork, Ireland for the weekend
April 24: Sicily (..we found a 10 euro round-trip flight on Ryanair.. and then we got an email saying they were charging us 30 euro. Oh well.)
May 1: Fondi :)
Fondi is where my mom’s side of the family is from, and I’ve been in contact with one of my relatives there. None of them speak English except the one I’ve been talking to. It’s going to be a LOT of fun though… I’m very very excited.. however I’m so sad that 2 weeks after I come back from Fondi.. I come home. IT’S GOING BY TOO FAST! So that’s why I haven’t updated this thing. I try to spend as little time inside my apartment as possible. I still have a million things to do in Florence – I haven’t seen the David yet, I haven’t climbed the Duomo.. I’m going to try to save some of that stuff for when Shawn gets here, though.
Alright so there’s my life, and I am sorry I haven’t updated this. I've had the attention span of a pea pod lately. ;) I will be more regular about it.. so you wont have to read a 2-page entry all in one shot ever again.
Pace ed amore
Weelllll okay since my last update I’ve been to Milan, Venice, Athens, and Dublin.
Milan was very nice, although we were unable to see most of the city. The way our program structured the trip, we only got about five hours to get a walking tour and then wander on our own. It was nice, but there was less to do there than I would have liked.
Then the fun began. We had the worst luck EVER with our hotel that turned out to be a hostel. The first room we got, the beds were caved in. It also was lacking a toilet seat but had hair in the shower and droppings in the toilet to make up for it. Sooo I freaked out and ran down and made them change my room. We got to our second room, and there’s a toilet seat! But it doesn’t flush. And our door didn’t lock. So I go back and yell again and they fix it. We go to bed… and at 1:30 a.m. local time, someone keys into our room. So I shoot up in bed and yell HELLO? (because what else do you say?!) and whoever it was runs away yelling SCUZZA!!! It turns out it was only the night guard.. but still. Jess slept through this, in case you were wondering.. God love her haha.
After that we were back on our bus at 7 am, and we set off for Venice. Because it was the last Sunday in Carnivale, there were millions of people there. As in, Venice was at double its normal population. However it was absolutely beautiful, and I was able to see most things. No gondola rides (they were pretty expensive) but I did buy a bunch of Carnivale masks and Murano glass. I looooved Venice and I’d love to go back, but I’m rapidly running out of weekends. I also had some Bellini, which is some good stuff if you ask me!
The weekend after Venice, Jess and I woke up at … 3 am.. and got on a bus to the Pisa airport. We then got on the 7:10 am plane to Athens. Athens was probably the most incredible place I’ve been so far. The entire weekend(4 days, 3 nights) cost us $250 USD because everything we did was free for some reason. We saw the Acropolis, the central gardens, and climbed Mt. Lycabettus! We got to see all the ruins that are just scattered about the city… Greece was really cool. I’ve also discovered a love of Mousakas, their famous eggplant dish. I must have had it 4 times while I was there.
Last weekend I went to Dublin, to visit my friend Monica. Monica and I were best friends in elementary school, but she moved to Ireland when we were 11. However, I see her every summer. So I took the 6 am train to Rome, and flew from there to Dublin. The flight there was very turbulent, but the one on the way back was worse. People clapped when we landed.. the pilot basically just slammed the plane down on the runway because he just wanted it down – we were bouncing so much and would drop mid-air and were swaying back and forth.. ugh. Anyway, Dublin was a lot of fun and it was good to see both Monica and my friend Sam (from high school) who is studying there for the semester. Monica and I stalked Bono and went to his house. There was a lot less to do in Dublin than I thought there would be – however it was nice to go to a place where they spoke English, the signs were in English, etc. AND I BOUGHT PEANUT BUTTER!! It is a normal-sized jar of Jif, and I only paid about 4 Euro for it. A 3-oz thing of Skippy in Italy is 8 Euro. And I’m rapidly running out of the one I brought, so I was glad to find it so cheap.
We went to a little “typical Irish town” called Enniskerry a few minutes away from Dublin for lunch – it was so cute! At night, we went to a few (..maybe more than a few) Irish pubs. I didn’t get a Guinness, mostly because I didn’t feel like being ridiculously full the entire night. However, I tried some of Monica’s boyfriend’s. (He was sitting there alternating between Guinness and Jameson.. ew.) It was wayyy different than American Guinness – much smoother and a lot less bitter. Ummm, not that I would know that through experience or anything. One morning we went out for breakfast, and I got a “full Irish breakfast” … I tried the black pudding, which is blood sausage. It wasn’t .. bad? I mean it wasn’t good but it wasn’t bad either.
I do go to school in between these trips, I swear. I’m doing well. We have midterms next week, which is why I’m home this weekend. My Mafia class isn’t turning out the way I hoped – my teacher is really mean and yells at us when we don’t understand her (..she randomly switches into Italian). I would say that’s the hardest class. My cooking class is a lot of fun, our teacher took us out to dinner and charged it to school, so that was cool. We also did a wine tasting on Wednesday (at 9 am, ha) with that class, and we got to try three different kinds of Chianti. I didn’t realize that there were different kinds of Chianti. Go figure!
Today was a gorgeous day in Florence, it was sunny and 70 degrees out. I spent most of my day in a park studying for midterms. It’s nice to just stay in the city for a weekend! I found a big flea market too, and it had the craziest stuff there such as paintings and art from the 1500’. It was a high-class flea market I guess!
After midterms is our spring break. Here’s a list of upcoming events.
March 23-25: Prague
March 26-29: Vienna
April 4-5: Siena & Perugia
April 17: My friend Shawn (one of the Cumberland guys) is coming from Cork, Ireland for the weekend
April 24: Sicily (..we found a 10 euro round-trip flight on Ryanair.. and then we got an email saying they were charging us 30 euro. Oh well.)
May 1: Fondi :)
Fondi is where my mom’s side of the family is from, and I’ve been in contact with one of my relatives there. None of them speak English except the one I’ve been talking to. It’s going to be a LOT of fun though… I’m very very excited.. however I’m so sad that 2 weeks after I come back from Fondi.. I come home. IT’S GOING BY TOO FAST! So that’s why I haven’t updated this thing. I try to spend as little time inside my apartment as possible. I still have a million things to do in Florence – I haven’t seen the David yet, I haven’t climbed the Duomo.. I’m going to try to save some of that stuff for when Shawn gets here, though.
Alright so there’s my life, and I am sorry I haven’t updated this. I've had the attention span of a pea pod lately. ;) I will be more regular about it.. so you wont have to read a 2-page entry all in one shot ever again.
Pace ed amore
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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