Today starts my second week of classes, and I feel like there is a lot that has happened the past few days so I figured I'd keep u posted. I am sitting in the library right now because my apartment still does not have internet. I am starting to give up on the fact that I will ever have it, and its really not the worst thing in the world. There's a bar, Friends, right down the street that provides "free" internet (you have to buy a drink to stay, but they have been putting out appetizers and such so its not a terrible deal) and the library has a huge room where everyone sits on the internet. Since I've been sitting here I think I've seen all of my roommates and a bunch of other people from the trip too. I think our school has the fastest internet in Florence. Since it was just our second weekend in Florence, we decided against going anywhere for the full weekend, but we kept ourselves entertained and did some sightseeing as well. On Saturday the sun returned from a 10 day hiatus, so we decided to walk around Florence and be tourists for the day. After walking across it maybe 50 times since I've been here, I finally took some pictures from the Ponte Vecchio (I forgot to take some of the actual shops, stay tuned for those) and then we walked towards the Duomo.
Despite the 8 euro cost, we decided to hike up the 430 something steps to the top of the Duomo for an unbelievable view of Florence. After spending about 30 minutes up there, catching our breath and taking in the city, we walked back down, explored a few more streets and then called it an afternoon (we'll have to make it to the David some other time because it is currently under construction or something like that).
Sunday, we woke up early and jumped on a train to Lucca, a small town about an hour west of Florence. It was just me, Marc, and Josh Fishman (my roommate from Miami who is in ZBT at Indiana) as the other guys didn't want to get out of bed. We got to Lucca only to find that, like Florence, the sun was absent. Despite the bad weather, we walked around the town for a few hours, and really liked what we saw. It was a lot smaller and much more quite then Florence, which was nice because Florence is flooded with tourists, especially on the weekends (now that I have applied for a permit of stay here I no longer consider myself a tourist). After walking around, and finding a tall bell tower to get a city-view from, we jumped back on the train back to Florence. It was definitely fun to have a weekend to explore Florence and its surroundings, as the next few months are going to be full of travel (starting with Interlaken this Thursday). Hope that everything is going well for everyone back home and around the world.
Until next time,
a Presto
JK
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