i am a nerd

i am the biggest art nerd in the world. one of my favorite things has been wandering through the museums and looking at all of it. most of the time its something i have studied about and so its so awesome seeing the real thing. i just stood and looked at this one statue for forever. so nerdy. but so awesome.

yesterday was my favorite day so far. we went into the duomo (the cathedral of florence) and had an on site class. the frescoes on that dome are so beautiful. i had a crick in my neck from staring up at them so much. i took a gazillion pictures too. which is good. then today we had to go into a market and buy something. and this market was precious. and for some reason i started craving an orange. so i ate my first orange ever. and it was awesome. and i kept getting on fruit kicks all day and craving it. then after we left there we went and had a picnic which was sweet. then a few of us decided to go to the Boboli Gardens. good lord. it was amazing. i could have stayed there for days. it had amazing views of florence. and amazing statues. and amazing flowers. and it was just completely gorgeous. i was so tired but i couldnt stop walking around.

if i could i would do stuff like that every day and all the time. i am such a geek. i just love to go to museums and stuff and hear information about everything. i was just taking tons of notes.

one of my favorite nights was last night. we went into scandicci, which is the small town our villa is in. there was this square there with a cafe and a lot of people were just hanging out. so we decided to get a drink and sit down since there was a guy playing music there. so we went into a cafe and got a drink and the guy thought we were funny bc we had no idea what we were saying and so he gave us a free plate of cookies. which was sweet. and so we took our stuff to the square and sat there and listened to music and talked. it was so nice. i love nights like that. we sat there for forever then decided to come back.

i have also realized that trying to buy a leather purse is a huge ordeal. every vendor hits on you. and it just makes me mad so then i am like no i am not going to buy a 90 dollar purse bc you hit on me. one told me today i had to come back bc i left a special place in his heart and he loved my blue eyes. yeah probably not going to happen. i know he just wants me to buy a bag.

we did have a drunk guy follow us around and try to sell us drugs last night though. we were walking down a street and stopped to figure out where we were. which was not the thing to do when you are in a group of 15 people and you are american. and him and his friend came up with their wine and started creeping on us and getting right next to us and asking us to buy drugs. so we walked away swiftly. and some of us went to a book store. and when we went downstairs one of them was there. so he had totally followed us. and i was like seriously? and he spilled his wine on the floor. but it wasnt hard to get away from him bc he was trashed. and didnt know where he was. so ill just mark that one off the list. i think being followed by a drunk italian man with a pouch of wine (it looked like a big version of a juice box) is something everyone should experience.