I dont have class on thursday’s (which is awesome) so I plan on going to the Boboli Gardens tomorrow to take pictures. My photo assignment this week is bordering the photo so maybe I can take a picture with ferns bordering the photo or something like that. I wont know until I get there. Then this Friday I am going to Pisa and Luca with my roommates. The train ride to Pisa from Florence is an hour then a very short one to Luca. I hear there isn’t much more to see in Pisa than the leaning tower so that is why we plan on going to Luca too. Then this saturday I plan on taking a five mile hike to Fiesole, a town right outside of Florence, I am going with a group through the school. I hear that it is just a beautiful countryside town and they are famous for their wine. Also, it probably will be a great opportunity to take pictures. Sunday I have no plans maybe a gallery. Then this tuesday I am going to a Dave Matthews concert in ROME!!! I am so so so excited. That is in 6 days! I am an extreme Dave fan so this is huge for me. I am getting there through Bus2Alps which provides many trips all around Europe and to Northern Africa. They are pricey but have their benefits.
My photography classes are going awesome. Last week’s assignment was “the egg” and I struggled with it but my teacher loved my photos!! Italian is going really well too. Although being able to speak spanish screws everything up. I can read Italian very easy but now that I am learning Italian it is 1. really messing up my spanish because now I cant think of certain saying in spanish and only in Italian and 2. I pronounce things the spanish way instead of the Italian way (ticks my teacher off sometime).
Everyday I see something new. I am making friends from all around the United States that I plan on visiting all the time when I get back. From California, Alaska, NY, NJ, to Texas… I have friends from all over the world now!
I am growing as a person as well. I am learning so much about myself and about people in general. I am becoming more self-aware. I now am thinking that photography might be in my future and this trip within the first three weeks has for sured me that I was born to travel. I will be traveling the rest of my life and I wont settle for less.
I want to thank Janis Halpern with her help in finding me a major that suits me. She is a very special woman.
I love my life here. I do not feel home sick at all. I feel wherever I am at the time is my home. Not everyone feels that way though. I have a roommate that is very homesick. You just have to realize you will never get this kind of opportunity again and that if you want to you will change during your trip.
I still have over four months of traveling left. I wonder what I will be thinking then. I am sure I wont be ready to come home.
Hope everything is good in the States!
Charana
