Finally: Florence, Italy

What an uneventful day. We left Bad Kohlgrub around 8:30AM for our long and boring drive to Italy.

Basically, this is how today went:

                8:30AM-11:45AM: Driving/sleeping/talking/listening to music

                11:45AM-12:20PM: Stop to get food and walk around. Eat sandwich and frozen mocha

                12:20PM-3:30PM: Driving/sleeping/talking/listening to music

                3:30PM-3:45PM: Stop and walk around

                3:45PM-5:30PM: Driving/talking/getting excited

                5:30PM: Arrive outside of Gonzaga in Florence campus

After that Erin, Gabby, Allie, Audrey, myself, and a few other girls are handed a map and told to go find our new home- Hotel Bonifacio. We, surprisingly, managed to navigate our way through the streets of Florence without any hiccups in direction. However, we would have walked right past it if it wasn’t for Carl hanging out of his window waving at us.

Now, there are three of us in one room. At Gonzaga, this usually means a good sized room with 3 of everything. This is apparently not what the Italians think. Our room is quite big, but the only 3 of anything is the beds. We have one closet and one desk. None of us know exactly where we are going to put our clothes when we get our suitcases tomorrow. We’ll figure out, right? We have too?

Dinner was at 7PM so we spent an hour exploring. We found a few bars and café’s right down the street, and a market. We also found a laundry place, but it is so expensive we are hoping the tourist place is better priced. I am so tired of wearing the same dirty clothes every day; it’s gross.

Dinner was good; pasta, broccoli and chicken. The three women who we met tonight seem really nice, so far it seems like this won’t be too bad of a living situation. The only thing is we need to figure out laundry and internet. The internet only works in certain places in the hotel, one of them not being our room.

I wish I had some funny, sassy, or inappropriate few words or sentence to describe today… but as you can see it was pretty boring. Tomorrow starts the first day of classes. I have finance and Italian, and since all of my notebooks and pencils are in my suitcases, it should be a productive morning.

Wednesday, September 14th