Back to Firenze

So shortly after coming back from Barcelona, we came up on the last weeks of school.

I think this whole time, i forgot that i was actually in Florence for school...real quick. it was awesome. although it was really really hot, we had classes outdoors in front of monuments, we had lectures in museums and in churches where there were hidden frescoes..
thats a few of my fellow classmates walking through a tunnel hidden in a church to see some frescoes.

thats my cute little teacher. this was inside a church lecturing on the painting behind her.

how awesome is that?

BCN

we actually took a bus to Pisa at some ungodly hour of the night to catch the flight to barcelona
we walked around pisa for a few hours before our flight. pretty surreal seeing the leaning tower of pisa in the middle of the night...we had to sneak in..it was pretty stealthlike of us!

When we got to Barcelona, we stayed with my crazy aunt...i'm talking CRAZY and annoying too..but whatevs..i didn't prepare the girls adequately enough...hahha.
We woke up late and had some breakfast that she cooked for us.
We went out that night to la oveja negra (the black sheep) where they have really good sangria..but its a total young touristy bar...but fun..

it was really hot so sangria was like HEAVEN!

we went shopping...and we got some pants that Bekah could NOT figure out! haha.




got it.

we went out another night...i can't remember where we went..but we met up with some spaniards...

we were only there for a weekend, but it was such a blast.

Outtings in Firenze.

Some random outtings around town..

We went to Calcio Storico.

Its an incredibly violent soccer-football-rugby-based ball game. Its a huge procession with people in costume before every game. And ten seconds into the game....someone is on the stretcher almost guaranteed!

procession
game
i think the verde won.

Rowing Team

so i lied..there are some cute guys in italy....they belong on the calcio teams and the rowing teams.

these dudes were on the rowing team and the one on my right came up to me on the street and invited me to check out the rowing club...so i took some of my gal pals and we went down...to the club..hehe.

its like this elite rowing club with boats and practicing equiptment...blah blah. he said that the last remaining member of the medici family was a member of the rowing team as well...where was that guy? i want to meet him! unfortunately, according to whats his face...the medici guy is gay.

some random pictures from nights out.





the Fourth of July...

we spent it in Cascine park..OK! what the hell were we thinking! you know how in fairy tales there a map with an area clearly designated as dangerous...like this...
and then the stupid characters go there anyway and then get eaten and die?

yeah..it was like that, except with naked transvestite prostitute drug addicts. it was great fun!

We went to Cascine park at night (very dark) for a barbeque...now before it was too dark, a few girls and i decided to take a cab back home, since the walk back out of the park was VERY VERY dark. so we walked over to a well lit area. stood in a little island and couldn't figure out why all these cars were driving around us and checking us out.

come to find....there are prostitutes there and those were their customers...but wait. it gets better.

there was a transvestite prostitute wearing a sarong and a bra not giving a crap who saw (her? him?) and (she? he?) was walking around with (her? his?) pimp...and a big gust of wind made its skirt fly up...HOLY GUACAMOLE..yes wherever your imagination is going is probably the right place!

DON'T GO TO CASCINE PARK..or maybe..do...it was exciting.

Cinque Terre

Cinque Terre...5 lands?

On the coast, there are five little cities, each with a distinct character. You can hike from city to city, but i think we took the train.
We actually had to take like a million different things to get to Cinque Terre. Its NOT that simple. We went for the day, left at like 4am to catch the train...but it was amazing!


The cities are.

Monterosso
Vernazza
Corniglia
Manarola
Riomaggiore

We walked around.

swam all afternoon!

ate at this restaurant at the top of the hill.
thats bekah the mermaid!

the rocks were slippery with moss...and i was standing on them and i'd constantly slip off. i also got bitten by something called a fish frog? or something, but it left me a little splinter in my toe which sara dug out with the back of her earring..thats when i knew she loved me!

Romina Romina Bo Bina Banana Fana Fo Fina Mi My Mo Mina...MINA!

My cousin Romina also lives in Italy. I've known her since I was born. The most amazing artiste...She goes to the academy where the David is. She was another reason why Florence was where I wanted to go. I love her to death. (THERE YOU GO MINS. NOW CAN I HAVE MY $20?) just kidding. haha, its $100.
thats her on the right with her eyes closed. argh! i didn't have one with her eyes open.

in the studio (back there behind that big piece of wood) and rosa her roomate.
rosa smoking with her feet. she could speak a little english, and i could speak a little italian...together...mmm we were interesting. even more so with my roomate bekah who tried to speak to her. OMG that was too much...to much funny.
romina's room. she painted that mural back there.
makes me happy.

this girl is awesome...and would bike to my house in the heat of florence.

and she just got commissioned to create a work for the city of Rome. yay mins!