Chillaxin

Hello all! Don’t worry, this post won’t be ridiculously long like the last one! It has been pretty chill around here lately….the mood I mean, not the weather thank goodness!! The weather has been absolutely perfect and gorgeous here! Finally!!

Thursday was the start of the beautiful weather! We had to get up early to make up our Italian class we missed on Wednesday for the Immigration office so that was kind of a bummer, but kind of a blessing in disguise too cause when class was over it was around 11 o’clock so the sun was out and we noticed how nice it was! Caroline and I stopped to get some take-away food from a restaurant (fried chicken sandwich and slice of pizza) and took it back to the apartment and ate outside on our terrace. It was around 65 degrees outside so we decided we were gonna tan on our terrace. We got on shorts and tank tops and soaked up the sun! I got a tiny bit burnt and the first tan lines of the year! Yay!! I am so tired of being pale like a ghost! It was so nice! Then I had to leave for wine class, and wasn’t too impressed with any of the wines that night so it was kind of uneventful. Then we went out to Duomo for about an hour to say good-bye to the 3-city kids cause they would be leaving to move to Rome for the next month. So now our group is cut in half which is so bizarre! Anyway, I just went back home and called it an early night after that. It was a good relaxing day!

Friday we got up early to go to the market in hopes of buying really cheap clothes, but sadly had no luck. It is so hard to shop for clothes here! Everyone is like a stick! Straight up and down, no curves, and super skinny! I don’t get it! Even my really small roommate Jenny, has a hard time shopping here! It’s a little bit ridiculous! Then we came back and napped a little then Caroline and I went to get pizza from Voglio and ate it at the park. It was the perfect day for the park! We wore capris and tanks and laid out and listened to music and read books. It was so pretty out! It’s like all the colors were enhanced. The greens were greener, the yellow yellower, and the air was so fresh! It was beautiful! We spent a few hours there and headed back for another nap! Haha….they were much needed! Then our roommate Jenny had her roommate from back home here to visit for the weekend. Her name is Callie and she is studying abroad in Florence so it worked out really well. She is a lot of fun! We all went out to dinner and I didn’t like the pasta dish they served us so they gave me an entire pizza! It was fabulous!  Then we stopped for gelato on the way home. None of us really felt like going out that night so we all stayed in and chilled together. We watched dumb youtube videos like ‘The Duck Song’ and ‘The Llama Song’ and ‘Berries and Cream Starburst Commercial’ and now we quote the videos to each other all the time! It’s hilarious!

Saturday we slept in! Then Caroline and I cleaned the apartment while Jenny and Callie were hangin out with the nuns. It was yet another beautiful day so we had all the windows open and were just jamming to music. It was great! Then at around 1ish we decided we would go to the beach and put our feet in the Mediterranean Sea!

 No big deal! It was awesome! We all brought our suits but it was much cooler by the water, still beautiful, but not warm enough to swim! So we had a little picnic on the beach with cracker, fruit, and wine. The sand there was like nothing I have ever seen. It was black. It was sort of beautiful. The black sand made it look sparkly and exotic. It was also some of the softest sand I have ever felt.

 It was just perfect. The water was pretty frigid. It kind of reminded me of being on Lake Michigan but with black sand. It was really nice.

 We decided to walk around a little bit (the town was called Montalto) and explore before we went back and we stopped for cappuccinos. We got back around 6PMish. Then we stopped at the supermarket cause we were all out of food! We were starved after not really eating all day! As we were making food I burnt myself. Last time I cooked potatoes I sliced open my thumb, and this time cooking potatoes I splashed hot oil all over my arm. It was just lovely….not. I have like a mutant looking burn marks now on my arm. It’s real attractive. It hurt really bad too! Stupid potatoes!! Anyways…we went out to Duomo for a little while later. Jenny wanted to show Callie were we usually hang out. It was a good time as usual, but it was weird only being with a few people there. Not only did the 3-city kids leave but a huge group of people went to Barcelona for the weekend (including my other roommate Sara) so there were not that many Americans left in Tuscania this weekend. It was nice, but it was weird.

Then today, Sunday. It has been chill too. The weather is still fairly nice. It is a little cloudy out but the temperature is pretty nice. I’m sitting in the kitchen writing this in my shorts and t-shirt so it is definitely not freezing anymore!! Yay! Then we spent a few hours studying and hangin around the house. Callie left today and Sara comes back tomorrow so things are getting back to normal.  Other than that though, it has been chill and relaxing and pretty perfect lately. It’s a really good feeling!  It is amazing to me how much of an effect the weather has on my mood. I have been in such a good mood and things like the slow internet did not bother me so much cause I was just in such a jolly, happy mood. I like when I’m like that. It’s fantabulous!

Until next time….Ciao!