Ciao Italia

So once again I have failed in keeping this updated. But I have decided to break up the blogs this time to be nice to you.

I am done with my time in Italy, sadly. It ended as any other school semester would with a paper and a final. I really hope that I have more motivation for school when I get back because if I don't, then it might not be so good. It is so hard to do school work when you're trying to cram adventrues into your daily life. It also did not help that I got a cold. And on top of the cold I did not want to sleep very much because I did not want to waste my last few days in Florence. Sometimes though I found it hard to try and stay awake. But we found the perfect motivation... A secret bakery! Apparently Florence has several of these, but there was one within minutes of my apartment. You may be asking yourself how a bakery can be secret. Well it's simple. Don't open until 2 am and don't speak around it. That's right. The bakery does not open until 2, so that is why it was the perfect motivation to stay up! To find the bakery you really just have to use your nose. Well I used everyone else's noses on account of mine being broken from my cold. Once you have sniffed out the bakery, you knock on the door. A guy will come to the door, you give him your order. He goes away, comes back with food, you give him money and walk away like nothing happened. It's all very sketchy and not, at the same time. Just remember though, it is a secret, so I did not tell you about it.

Once we were finally done with school, my friends and I decided to reward ourselves with a day trip to Venice. Hard life, I tell you. Venice is amazing. There are no cars. No cars. I guess I should have expected that, but yet, it still took me by surprise. I knew everyone got around by boats, I just thought they would drive too. But no. The streets are not big enough at all for cars. All of Venice seems to be made up of little alleys. And, in any other city, they would all be creepy. But there is just something about Venice that makes them cute. We went to Venice with no particular plan in mind, so we just wandered for a while. Finally we found the San Marco plazza. It's just as impressive as how it looks in all the movies! I'm trying to keep this short, so I'm just going to reel through the rest of the day. Venetian masks are gorgeous, water taxis are fun, long train rides are good for naps, and the Pisa airport is good for sleeping.

I have to go to class now. I know, going to class and I'm not even in school. But it will make sense later. Then you can hear about more adventures!