Ciao!

Well, I just made it back from the first weekend trip to Tuscany. We visited Florence and Siena. We spent Friday night and Saturday night at a cute little hotel in Florence named Hotel Casci. It was a small family owned hotel which was run by this cute little man named Paulo and his mother. They were so sweet, and they went out of their way to make us comfortable. Florence is a really fun city, and its a little bit more my style. Don't get me wrong, I love Rome, but Florence just has a much better atmosphere. We visited the Academia museum and the Ufitzi museum. I got to see Michealangelo's David., which was really cool. The Ufitzi was also amazing. Siena was also really cute, and it was much smaller than Florence. We just spent the afternoon wondering around before we headed back to Rome. Now that this first week is over I feel like I have really gotten used to this place. I'm not going to lie the first few days I was actually wondering what I had gotten myself into. I just felt really lost and homesick, but I am really glad that I am here now. I'm having a great time, and my room mates and I get along really well. We got to know each other really well over the weekend, and I'm really excited about all of the stuff that we have left to do.