So the last few days in Florence have been absolutely wonderful. I really love that city and am honestly wishing I had studied there and not in athens. Florence is totally my kind of city, with my kind of history. Athens...sucky city, and not my kind of history. i feel really horrible saying that though. but even so, i am still getting a lot out of my experience in athens.
hanging out with dan has also been a lot of fun. my favorite time would have to be when i went on the secret passages tour that he led in the Palazzo Vecchio. He was so good! I wish everyone at Whitman could go on this tour with him. I mean, secret passages. enough said. plus a really awesome tour guide. it was awesome. it was weird though because afterwards, i was one of maybe like, 10 tourists in the entire palace, and it felt really weird to basically be wakling through it all by myself. it was kinda creepy and very lonely, but neat at the same time.
ive also been having a good time with kate, ethan, and tall rob, all from cya. weve gone to museums and lunch and a bar together, and i had a good time at all of them.
i was really sad to leave florence today, but now i am in rome and i am really excited to see everything. i met up with taylor and emily, and right now im in my hostel which is really awesome. its like the pink palace but not nice and untrashy. i am thinking about heading to the bar to meet some people, but were waking up early tomorrow morning to go to the vatican, and i woke up at 6 30 today to go to the uffizi...so we shall see if i am up for a drink.
oh! and my friends and i went out for a stroll to look for gelatto, and i heard some piano playing. so i went to the restaurant where the waiter asked what i wanted and i said i just wanted to listen to the piano. so he said "oh, come here, frederico will play!" and then frederico invited me to his piano and he asked what song i wanted to hear. so i requested "Moon River" and he played it and sometimes it was jazzy and other times it was just pretty, and it was a perfect moment, watching this guy play moon river while i ate gelatto in front of the santa maria maggiore.
its moments like that that make all the stress and loneliness and struggles of travel absolutely worth it. especially lately when i have been coming to terms with certain truths about myself. moments like those make up for all the difficulty inherent in this kind of experience, because in the end, what ill remember most is the gelatto and Moon River.
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