Sunday, September 7, 2008

Why didn't anyone warn me about the mosquitoes?!!!

Hello! Meet Kristen, the girl I will be cohabitating with for the next four months.


This is the living room of the apartment.

Kristen and I went to the Duomo Friday night. This is an incredibly American tourist hangout. Almost everyone in our program inexplicably ended up in this area. The Duomo was beautiful, though. When I was here last, it was being cleaned. The colors of the marble are incredible! Last night, we went to a piazza by our house and watched the soccer game on a big screen and a group of aging men play jazz. We did manage to find a crowd that was almost exclusively Italian, but they were also all almost exclusively over 40. I think that we go out too early for the Italian youth.


This is the Basilica San Miniato al Monte. It's Anna's (our host mom) favorite church.



Today, Anna's daughter and son-in-law came over for lunch. They speak a lot of English and they showed us how to connect to the internet in the apartment. They are officially my new favorite people. Later tonight we're going to a festival of paper lanterns. I'm not sure what exactly this entails, but I will most definitely post details and pictures.

4 comments:

Laura said...

This is wonderful! Glad all is going well. Can't wait to see more photos.

Love ya & Miss u
Missy & Midnight, Zak & Donte
Ms. Laura

Mom & Dad said...

Love the pictures-love the blog, love you.

Mom

shirleynah said...

love this post

love the family wingate

you look hotttt in your blog pic

hot.

i just had three hours of class and its now noon. i know sucky. im going to shower (hooray!) and proceed to three hours of lab.

happy monday! barf. also very much laughed at your post. it was so funny and i cant get over my pride to have such a good looking friend.

Naomi said...

I'm soo jealous. It looks gorgeous. Have tons of fun. Keep us updated! Miss you!