Friday... After class I went to H&M to buy a shirt for sleeping in, since I am an idiot and I didn't bring one. While there, I ran into... Claire Demos! The girl that I was in Cambridge with like 3 years ago! I had just found out she was in Florence the day before and we ran into each other coincidentally. This is probably because Florence is tiny and you see people you recognize everywhere. But that was exciting, and we chatted. I went and got the most delicious pesto shell lunch afterwards at this place near school. Pesto and Coke for 4, 80? I'll take it. It was also my dinner. I was almost late to meet Pati. We went to the Chocolate Festival with Jordan. It was awesome! There was so much chocolate, and it was in so many strange shapes! A whole chicken, a saw, a motorcyle. My rum truffle wasn't quite what I wanted, but my chocolate spoons were. I have the biggest sweet tooth here. I guess it's because I'm always walking miles every day.
Florentines are not a very cheerful bunch of people. There was one chocolate making woman who was having a GREAT day. She sang "Rain, Rain, Go away" in Italian to us, and then she made Jordan do a rain dance with her to try and make the sun come out. She was hilarious. The festival was delicious. I wish it was still going on, I want more chocolate.
I had a funny moment the other day concerning chocolate. Renee and Emily are very particular about eating fatty foods. I was eating chocolate after lunch and just reading at the kitchen table. Then I hear them in the hallway walking upstairs. My instinct is to instantly shove the chocolate into my mouth so that they don't know I'm eating it, and hide the rest. Immediately after I did that, I was like, "What am I doing?"
But then I was really glad because they had just been running.
Which is kind of gross to me here. I originally wanted to go running when I got here, but then I realized that this city is so dirty you can taste it. I don't believe I've ever had that experience, but it's foul. It's so dirty there have been smog protests within the last week.
I just stayed in last Friday. I finished rereading Pride and Prejudice and went to sleep.
Saturday we woke up early and went to the train station to get on a bus. CAPA hosted a trip to Siena and San Gimigagno... I forgot how to spell it. It wasn't too exciting. It wasn't awesome. I bought some masks for the wall which in Florence would have cost me so much, but there they were pretty cheap. We just wandered around S.G. and then Gina and I got lost in a giant kitchen store. We were like 5 minutes late to the meeting place, and as we walked up the bus was driving away. Then Bryce walked up with sodas because he'd been told he could go to Coop and buy them. They had to come back for us. I thought they were going to just go and we'd have to find our own way home. I read Lord of the Flies on the way back and I didn't really like it.
Yesterday I just wandered around for a really long time. Starting reading Mansfield Park. Pretty heavy. I have now found three English bookstores and yesterday I got lost it in. I resisted buying a book and was proud of myself. It sounded really good. It was called The Owl Killers. Just FYI.
There is something wrong with me. I can't wake up anymore. I keep going to bed really early and then I wake up really late. The other day I slept for thirteen hours. I'm just in a constant dream state and I can't wake up. I've been almost late and late to school the last three days because I've been so tired. I was going to go to the LDS church the other day because I need to find a interviewee for my Psych class and I thought that would be a good place to go. Went to sleep at 12, tried to wake up around 7 30, and didn't wake up til 1. I slept through church. It's so far on the other side of town that it's not even on my map.
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