So first, a little about this last week! I really took it easy on school. First I skipped Italian on Tuesday and read a book in a cafe instead. I had my other two classes that day, but they were simple museum visits. I'm allowed to miss like 4 Italian classes before my grade drops, and considering it's pass/fail, I'm allowing myself to skip a few times. Then Wednesday I had to start a landscape painting, and I chose a picture of the giant rock on the beach in Cinque Terre. Hopefully it will turn out beautiful and not as a disaster. Then Thursday my second class was canceled to go to the Stibert Museum on Friday instead, so all I had was Italian. But I get to Italian class and SURPRISE! Our teacher takes us to the Bargello museum randomly instead. It had nothing to do with Italian. She just took us there, let us look around, and then we all left. It was really quite fun. So all in all, classes were relaxed this week, and we all needed it. Friday morning I decided to go and meet my teacher for our substitute class at the Stibert Museum, which has the second largest collection of armory in the world. It is actually a mansion turned museum with TONS of stuff in it, but it was very very cool, so I'm glad I went. It is located out in the suburbs of Florence.
Egyptian temple outside the Stibert Museum
Stibert grounds...
Inside the museum, I snuck this pic
Beautiful scenery outside the museum
So then Friday night Maddy and I picked up some pizzas from our favorite place located right across from us, opened a bottle of wine and dubbed the evening Harry Potter night. We have been watching them all in order and we were on number 4. Then before bed, we decided we wanted to see Orvieto, because we have been pretty much everywhere else, and it supposedly has a billion underground tunnels that are cool to see. So, we woke up Saturday morning and caught a 9 am train to Orvieto and got there around 11:30. It was the slow train, but the slow train is cheaper, so that's why it took so long to get there. A really really creepy guy sat across from us the whole ride and kept talking to us and telling us how he can find out where we live and all this stuff about us just from our email address, and that he could control our computers without us knowing. Then he asked me for my emil about 100 times. HAHA NO. Not happening creepy dude. Apparently he worked in the military as some sort of hacker. So once again, DEFIANTLY not giving you my email. Then he kept trying to red our minds saying he was physic. And creeped us out by asking us to name the first color that came into our minds, so when we did, he had already written both colors down and who said which one. Officially weirded out. Anyways, we finally arrived and ran off the train. So back to Orvieto, it was a REALLY cool town and we are glad we went. The first thing we did was go on an tour of the underground tunnels. Orvieto was an Etruscan town (2,500 years ago) and they built thousands of tunnels under the city on a hill. We only saw a couple, but the last one we saw was used as a pigeon coop with tons of holes in the walls. The pigeons (like 600-700 at a time) lived and bred there, and then the owner of the coop would go down to their tunnel and grab a few pigeons to eat for dinner. Yes, they were their food source. Nasty. After the tour we walked around the town and saw a few churches and grabbed a long bite to eat. The food and wine was SO good, with thick noodles and spicy red sauce. Yum. We also visited an Etruscan museum (I wanted to go and made Maddy come haha) and made a stop at the local chocolate festival going on.... YUM! I had too much chocolate that day, and we were both a little ill feeling by the time we left, lol. We arrived back in Florence at around 9pm. It was a good day :)
On our way to the underground
Where the Etruscans made olive oil!
Caves and Pigeon Coops!
Today, I felt sick all day. Horrible headache, slept terrible, even took a nap which I never do, and eventually had to start writing a paper. I have two due this week. So tomorrow, I'll be writing papers allll day. Oh boy. Something to look forward to this week? Italian MTV's TRL Awards are being held HERE in FLORENCE on Wednesday night, and all sorts of famous people will be here 5 minutes away! Like Lady Gaga, and hopefully Rob Pattinson if he wins an award... anyways, lots of famous people will be here and Maddy and I are camping out all day to make sure we get into the square where it's held by the time the awards and performances start that night. SO EXCITING! Then the next night we fly out to Barcelona!! Okay well, until then! Ciao! :)
P.S. Shout out to my Big Danni, because back home at Chi O this week is senior week and she will be graduating soon, and I love her to death, so I'm thinking of you this week big!
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