Oh wow

Milan has been a weekend of crazy shit. I did things I have never done before and will never do again if I get a say in it.... dancing on a bar being that. And then being stuck on trains for hours because some dumb-ass jumped out and landed on the tracks. 3 hours of peaceful AC turned into 7 hours of sweltering hell! I t was awful! First our train stops, and forty minutes later we learn why, and hour after that we are told (by some really nice passengers who realized we didn't speak Italian) that we had to haul our junk and hike to another train that would take us to a train station, where we were put onto another train that had a lack of AC (keep in mind our feet are hot and swollen from wandering around Milan for the past 2 days, not to mention that hostel living renders you smelly and sticky gross) but a nice Italian woman gave me her seat about half way through the trip so I got to rest my feet. The we finally get to our connection station where we stand in a long line to find out if we need to get a new ticket or if we can exchange ours for a new train because of what happened to find that all trains are 2:45hr late because of the shenanigans pulled but the jumper. But there was this pissy guy in the line telling us things in Italian, pushing his luggage into our feet to make us walk forward and shouting "Vai! Vai! Vai!" (Go! Go! Go!) right before a teller was open for us to talk to. What a jerk. Then we couldn't find gelati, so we found our port and I left determined to find some, succeeded and met a Texan who looked as flustered and worn out as I was. Then once we finished our gelati we were being hustled by 2 Italian boys who wouldn't take a hint. It's funny, because Teena is usually all over the regazzi, but she was having none of these two, it's how worn we were. But our next train had AC, had foot space, and didn't have any jumpers! Thank, freaking GOD! It was ridiculous.

Oh, did I mention I broke my camera the night before we left so I spent almost all of the time I was in Milan camera-less? I finally bit-the-bullet and got a camera I would never have bought in any other circumstance. But I have to have a camera. I do. But it cut me deep. I miss the old gal. She is so awesome.... I'll have to take her to the camera hospital once I am back in the states!

Mosquitos!

Are eating me alive!!! D: I"m so itchy! So itchy! Ahhhh!!!!

But besides that, a group of us went storming the castle yesterday and it was AMAZING! Holy crap man, I mean really. Will I have pictures to show. We all took a sketching break at one point as well. That was interesting. It was so awesome!

I'm too distracted to talk... it's 7:03am and my roommates want to know what I did last night. Which was watch the Italy-France Game in a cafe. Thats right, hard core! :D

Italia- Day 4 or something

Settling in. Did some grocery shopping today, which is a little weird because it different from the grocery stores in the US. And I cant read any labels..... so I'm super paranoid that I am going to grab something with meat stuffs in it! Ahhh! But one of my roomies is a vegetarian as well, so we're kinda looking out for each other. I like it. OH! And apparently we are all Pisces. Random and weird, but cool at the same time. I'm getting along a lot with the people in our class and our group. I can tell though, that some of them aren't people I'd like to be around all the time.

My current gripe is a few buggie bites I have that itch like crazy. Damn Rain. But I brought the hydrochortizon creme, so I'm good to go!

I also had my first italian class today, and I think the teacher spoke a total of 4 words in english to us. It was incredibly overwhelming, but great! Io sono americana. E sono di San Diego! haha! Buono! I"m so excited about being here.... already have two big weekend trips planned. Next weekend is Milan and Venice, and then Rome, Pompeii and Naples if we choose. I think that this trip will be long, but I don't feel out of place here at all. I feel very relaxed and just... awesome. Thats all. :D

Ps: If you want a call from me, I downloaded Skype onto my computer and paid for a month of unlimted calling from my computer!!!!! So if you want a call.... send me your number!