Last Post ?

I cannot believe I am writing my last blog post ! This month flew by. Unfortunately there won't be any fun pictures in this post due to computer problems (my charger was Taken like Laim Neeson's daughter..its MIA like paper planes !) But I can still write and thats interesting riight?

Today is our last day, we will have a test and than a farewell dinner tonight. In the morning Sagan, Vilan and I leave for Florence where we will be spending our last few days (until Tuesday) I am excited to see 'David' and go site seeing I have heard its beautiful there ! Wednesday night Sagan and I fly out of Roma to begin our long journey home ( Rome->Amsterdam, 12 hour layover (which were just gonna make the most out of and turn into a mini vacation !) then Amsterdam --> NYC -> Home !) sooo basically if you want to see me more tired than I ever have been in my whole life than come with My family and Dallas to pick me up at Ragan next week ! haha

Looking back on this whole experience I just feel so lucky to have gotten to spend the past month here studying abroad. I think I am lucky to have gotten great roommates that I have traveled all over the country with , to have had a great advisor who helped us out and guided us all the way through (shout out to D.Wright ! Don't think for a moment I have forgotten about the Ke$ha re-write I am preforming for you tonight !) to have seen all of the sites and traveled safely everywhere, and to have learned so much from all of it (like the difference between an island and a city ! )

Since I can't use photos in this post and being the musical theatre geek and all around nerd that I am I have decided that these two songs best capture my feelings right now, Enjoy :

I couldn't find a good Stephanie Mills or Diana Ross Version, so I turned to Glee

DIRTY DANCING- Final Dance
Caricato da Stella78. - Scopri altri video musicali

Cheesy? Yes, Necessary ? YES ! haha

One Last CIAO !

America I will see you soon ! :) I cant wait to see you next week family and friends, I've missed you all so much !

Tourin Turin!...or Torino...Gran Torino ??

Today we went on a group trip to Torino Italy. I LOVED this city ! We went to the National Museum of Cinema which was so interesting and had all sorts of neat exhibits, like these origional masks from Starwars and Planet of the Apes !

(excuse my dorky pose, I didnt get the memo from the left side that we were going to play it cool this time hahaI couldnt help myself, I mean I was standing next to a real Chubaka mask haha )

The Museum also had an amazing glass elevator (reminded me of Willy Wonka) that would take you all the way up to the roof of their tower where you could see beautiful panoramic views of the whole city, below is one picture I took while we were up there Speaking of Willy Wonka, did I mention Turin is a city that runs on chocolate, Ferrero Rocher is made there ! As a choco-holic I had mad appreciation for all of the fine chocolates we found as we explored the city. We even tried one of their local specialties: Bicerin which is basically heaven in a cup. It’s a layered beverage: one-third hot espresso, one-third hot chocolate, and one-third softly whipped cream. SO GOOD !


How perfect does that look ???

Heres Sagan and I about to enjoy our long awaited and mispronounced Bicerins

These drinks are SO chocolatly that ours were served with a shot of water to consume afterwards !



AHH writing this post has made me crave one all over agian, I wish I could go back for more !!

Today was a great day ! :)

Chocolat

This past weekend we visited Chocolat (not to be confused with the cinematic masterpiece starring Johnny Depp) THIS Chocolat is well known as one of the most popular gelaterias in Milan. It was cute and trendy and delicious ! with way better prices than I expected and super generious scoops. Yumm :)

This picture turned out bad but the cones were so cute and had the name printed on them !

At Chocolat we met up with one of my roomate Sagan's friends from home named Jay, he has been traveling throughout all of Europe for the past two months and is going to spend the next two months traveling even more, I dont know how he does it ! It was cool to hear about all of his travels so far

Could it be ???

Today I finally bought a fedora ...furthermore its white- yep I am one of those tourists now.

I just hope I dont too closely resemble Britney Spears circa her trainwreck-K-fed-cheeto phase

5 Terre !?!

After many setbacks (see previous post on falafel for one example) We finally made it out to CINQUE TERRE today ! I dont have a lot of time to write about it because I have a lot of work to do on my last paper but I wanted to post some pictures (they speak louder than words anyways..riiigghht?) because it was unbelieveable.

Falafel is the Italian word for FOOD POISONING !

On Saturday I got super sick from some Falafel that I had for lunch (which is Weird/Shfeird because its made with chick-peas not meat so I thought it would be relatively safe) I can easily say it was the worst 8 hours EVERRR. I'm so happy it was nothing worse than that and that I (knock on wood) seem to have fully recovered!



I just wish my falafel would've come with a warning just like 'that girl' from this 1990's Bell Biv DeVoe Smash Hit... "POISON POISON!"

Just around the River-...I mean Castle ...-Bend !

Last night at the end of a day full of beautiful Monastery/Abbey seeing and attempted paper writing Vilan, Sagan and I decided to take advantage of the somewhat quiet evening and finally venture out to find this 'Bar Bianco' that we have heard so much about.

On our way there we got a little lost and stopped to ask a nice couple for directions :

"Excuse me, do you know where Bar Bianco is ?"

"Bar Bianco? Ah Yes ! Just walk past the Castle and take a right"

Oh of course! just casually walk past the castle and take a right, just past the Castle NO BIG DEAL haha I love Italy !

I attempted to get a picture of the castle but it was huge ( I mean it is a castle after all) so I could only really get a corner Vilan and Sagan (above) and Sagan and I (below) infront of the castle on our way there
Shortly after passing the castle we found the infamous "Bar Bianco' and it was totally worth the hype; as my mom would say it was 'hoppin' haha


Oh and ofcourse we encountered a cute dog on the way there ! I think owning an adorable dog must be a requirement for citizenship in Milan

Vilans in the puppy pic today, that dog loved her it was so cute !