SWITZERLAND!!

I cant talk much because people are waiting for the computers! I love it in Interlaken. Yesterday was pretty much horrible. Everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong. Trains were late or broken. We didnt get to our hostel until 12 30 so we were pretty tired. we left at 845 in the morning. Today was really relaxing and i loved it. everything is so beautiful. Well I just wanted to let everyone know that i was okay. Oh, my eye has been swollen three different days and my lip once. i woke up yesterday with the biggest swollen eye yet and it still hasnt gone all the way down. I have pics documenting this and it is hilarious! well Ive got to go. I am sorry for the lack of punctuation.

Only 2 and a half more weeks

Hello everyone. I guess it has been a week since I last posted. We have had a rather low key week here in Sansepolcro. I don't think I finished talking about Rome but I am just going to move on. Rome was fun but exhausting but we managed to see what we wanted to see. If you need to see Rome in a day..talk to me and I can tell you how haha!
It has been very relaxing being back in Sansepolcro. We had our second family dinner and I was with a new family. I LOVED them. They had a 20 year old son and a 13 year old daughter. The dad was the funniest man I think I have ever met. He did not speak English very well but he loved trying. His kids just laughed at him but he didn't care. I loved getting to know them and the food was delicious. The thing to do here in Sansepolcro is to walk to main street. On the weekends in the evening the street is packed. We went with our host dad...he drove us to the main street in his Crystler CONVERTABLE! Mom, you and Leslie would have loved this guy and his ride. He kept making fun of his daughter and how she was getting ready to walk to streets. He bought us gelatto which Maggie and I LOVE! I eat gelatto at least once a day...usually twice. Just so you arent shocked, I may be a good 20 pounds heavier when I get home. Our host dad knew EVERYONE. It was just like being at church on Sunday and never getting to go eat lunch because your mom keeps talking. We ended up walking with the daughter and her friend because they didnt want to wait for their dad. A group of boys kept following them around and while Babbo (Dad) was around the girls stressed that the boys were JUST FRIENDS. As we walked with the girls they told us that the two blondes were their boyfriends. They only like blondes aparently. It was funny because they never spoke to the boys they just wanted to walk by the boys...just like 13 year olds in America. Some things just are the same no matter where you live. Family dinners have been my favorite experience so far.

Lets see...we have had a lot of classtime this week. It is crazy though because we leave Monday for Venice and when we get back, we only have 3 more days of class. Tuesday we went to a jewelry show and all of us got cute things. Only at Meredith do a group of students take an excursion to a jewelry show. The people were so nice and have been having MC students over to their house for years now. The daughters make the jewelry and it is beautiful. Wednesday we went to Assisi and Perugia. Assisi was beautiful and Perugia was nice too. It was a long day though and we were realy tired when we got back to the Servi.

Well, that is it for now. I hope all is well in America. I cannot wait to get back and go to the beach and river!!! See you in a little over 2 weeks!

Back in Sansepolcro

I hope no one judges my writing skills based on this blog. I just read over the quick one I wrote yesterday and it was the most choppy thing I have ever read. I am always rushing when I post because I have to pay at the internet cafe and the computer at the Servi is horribly slow and everyone is waiting for it.

As I said yesterday, Rome was a lot of fun. We traveled from Arrezo to Naples and then caught a local train from Naples to Sorrento. The Naples train station left quite a bit to be desired. We heard a lot of bad stories about Naples so I think all of us were on guard. The local train from Naples to Sorrento was very interesting. We were packed in for the first half of the trip. We had on our packs and just had to stand for a while. The train made a lot of stops so people kept getting out and had to climb over us because so many people were in the way. I saw some people get up from a seat and I went to sit down. Unfortunately some Italian teenagers saw the same three seats open up. I sat down but then I got wedged against the window. I sat next to a very affectionate couple (this tends to be the trend in Italy). She sat in his lap and their friend sat across from them. Not only did they kiss, they also smelled horribly. It was not a fun train ride to say the least! We finally made it to Sorrento and our hostel was pretty nice. All of us had a bed but it was definitely a squeeze. It worked thought because we were only in there to sleep and take a shower. We went out to dinner that night at the cutest little place. The hostel recommended it and because we were staying at the hostel, we got 10 percent off! We split a bottle of wine and got dinner. It was delicious. It was nice to sit and relax for a while.

The next day we went to Capri. We woke up early to take a ferry over to the Island. It had stormed the night before and it was pretty cloudy that day. When we woke up it was raining but it turned out being an okay day. It only sprinkled for a bit in the morning. Because of the weather though, the seas were a little rough. We got on this big jet boat to take us to the island and we got a little seasick. The boat looked like a really nice, wide airplane on the inside. We could see crew members running around with bags because aparently, we were not the only ones feeling sick. I fortunately did not get sick. I thought Sal was going to beacuse she was completely white when we stood to get of the boat. My friend Katie who had been fine the whole trip stood up and started to feel sick. We had to go down a flight of steps into the bottom of the boat and on the way down, Katie felt it coming. The crew member grabbed her and stuck her head outside of a little door onto the outside deck of the sick where she vomited her breakfast. It was pretty funny because she felt fine right after. The crew memeber was so nice and rubbed her back as she vomited down the side of his boat. We had to wait in the bottom of the boat as they got ready to dock and we watched as another crew member brought a hose to clean it all up. I just thought you might enjoy that story as much as I did.

Capri was beautiful even though it was cloudy. We took a chairlift up to the top and it was amazing. It was like a ski life but you were in a chair by yourself. It takes 12 minutes going up and then you get off and get to see the most beautiful views ever. The top of the mountain was freezing.

I would tell you all more but I have to run to my Family dinner!!! I am pretty excited. Hope all is well in good ole America.

Back from Capri and Rome

I got back a little while ago from Rome. We had a good time be we are exhausted. Capri was absolutely beautiful but it was chilly and windy. We still had a great time. We did a chairlift up the mountain in AnaCapri and saw the most amazing views. Traveling was tiring but we managed. Rome was packed in with tons of stuff. We went to see the Vatican Museum, Sistine Chapel, Collosium, Roman Forum,Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain, Pantheon, and we ate at Hard Rock Rome in one day. TOday we went to St. Peters Basillica.

It was a lot traveling with 7 girls. We had fun but we had our moments too. 7 girls sharing 1 shower and 5 beds gets tight. Well I will go into detail later. Bye