Just 5 days left!!!

Well Florence has been amazing from the beginning up until this last little strech of time!! I will miss its beauty, but most of all i will miss the amazing people who i met while i have been here!! Most of them have left already; Veronica, Michelle, Ben, and Katie!! But my other friends who live here; Giulia, Paolo, Simone, Max, Scott, Flaviana, Beppe, and Nicole!! Were always very sweet and made me feel at home when i was at Joshua Tree!! I thank them from the bottom of my heart for their freindship because without it these three weeks would of been much tougher than they already were. I look forward to hopefully visiting again with Erin in the beginning of November so that we can meet up with Karen and Terri!!

Anyways this last week has actually been pretty good. I finally went to the beach yesterday, and it was amazing!! Something i needed! I’m thinking of going back at least one more time before i leave, since i’m not going to be able to see a beach for a while! The last few nights at JT have been fun. First let me update everyone that Eugene is out of the picture because he works to much. Anyways for the past few weeks i have been talking to this guy (who is a regular at JT) his name is Giovaninno. He s very nice, has really pretty green eyes and adorable dimples! Of course his english isn’t that good but luckily after i have a few drinks my Italian improves (at least i think it does). So we have been able to talk for a few nights and on Friday he aske if i had eaten dinner, and i actually hadn’t had anthing all day really. So we went and had dinner together (SECOND DATE!!) It was a lot of fun and very good. Afterwards we went back to JT and stayed unitl closing. Then i was about to get a cab but he offered to take me on is… are you guys ready…moped!!! Yes!! I have been dying to ride one the whole time i have been staying here and now i can! So he gives me a helmet, i naturally look retarded but hey saftey first , and i plug my earphone into his phone so then we can both listen to his music!! It was a blast flying around Florence on a moped listening to music!! So unlike me i got us lost, the language barrier could be the culprit here, i refuse to believe i lost my sense of direction!! I know this city from front to back by now, well almost! Anyways i told him just to drop me off at the Piazza near my hotel and i would walk, but once we got there he insisted he walk me which i thought was sweet. So he did and he even waited to make sure the door lady let me in (side note i think she hates me! i come in late a lot oops!!) Well needless to say he was very sweet and quite a gentleman which is hard to find in Italy from my experience, well except for Eugene he was sweet to!! Anyways it was a blast!!!

Oh and last Thursday afternoon Giulia and I went to a Music Festival that has been here for like a week! It was cool, of course the time we spent there there wasn’t much music! But whatever it was nice to get out and do something different! She had invited me to go to dinner with her and friends but i didn’t go because i didn’t feel that good plus i didn’t want to impose!! I can tell she sometimes thinks i get bored b/c i can’t always be apart of the conversation, she doesn’t realize its just nice for me to be around good people. Anyways i hate for her to feel like she has to entertian me. Well this last week has been a lot better thankfully!! I’m looking forward to Prague though!! But more importantly i’m looking forward to seeing Erin!!! Love and miss you guys!! (LAMY)