12 Days in Italy = Priceless
Here's a quick summary of what I did:
Monday after school, we left Valladolid. The bus ride involved a lot of shouting, singing, and dancing in the aisle, and we kept it going for a good four hours or so until we stopped for dinner and after that everyone slowly fell asleep and I ended up sleeping on the floor.
The next morning we stopped in Nimes, France to walk around and look around and ate breakfast. Then we continued to Monte Carlo. Monte Carlo was really pretty and it ended up being a cooler then I thought it was going to be. Most of us didn't expect much of it, but once we saw it surprised by its beauty and vowed that once we are rich and famous we're going to get houses there. We also saw all the super nice cars everyone living there had... I don't know much about cars, but the ones there were impressive.
After spending the night in Nice, France we kept on driving until we got to Pisa, Italy.
It was in Pisa when I realized 'holy crap! I'm in Italy, I'm standing in front of the leaning tower of Pisa!!'
From Pisa we went to Rome, where we stayed for three days.
'All roads lead to rome'.. or maybe not? Who knows?
For me Rome was an impressive and gorgeous city. The best part of Rome was that we had a lot of free time so at the end of the three days we knew how to get around parts of Rome without using a map.
After Rome we spent the day in Siena, which went horribly. It was a cold, rainy, windy day, my umbrella broke, and there wasn't anywhere indoors we could go because Siena was a very outdoorsy city. I felt sick almost the whole day, so I didn't eat lunch. We had 3 hours of free time to eat lunch and my friends and I managed to find a phone room off the side of the street to stay at least dry... it was still really cold. We ended up huddled all together on the floor to try and keep warm. Then when it finally was time to go back to the bus I literally needed help to walk, because my legs couldn't support my weight. (this was because I didn't eat lunch) so my friends made me eat a whole packet of sandwich meat... by the time I was back at the bus I was walking normal again, but my stomach cramped up again... not funnn.
That night by the time we were in Florence, thankfully, I felt fine.
Florence, is a city exceptionally pretty, it's architecture is so different from the architecture in Rome. One thing that I lovedd about Florence was the waffles. Yummm, Florence had waffles to die for, picture this: thick warm waffles covered in rich melted Nutella. :)))
Also in Florence we saw the famous statue of David.
We spent one full day in Florence and the next day we left for Lido di Jesolo, a city close to Venice.
Venice. Venice, needless to say, is breathtaking. It once again down poured the whole day, but me and my friends didn't let it stop us from exploring the streets (Venice is probably one the most dysfunctional, confusing city to navigate though that has ever existed).
Apart from being soaking wet the whole time, we had a great time.. we were given a map that had a list of places that we should visit in our free time. One of the places was a staircase... we spent about in hora looking for this stairs... the picture below are the super 'special' stair case
Then that night in Lido de Jesolo, we were allowed to go out to a discoteca until 2:00am which was a lot of fun... some of our teachers went with us and watching them dance... I wish a brought my camera... it was hilarious
The net day we began our trip back to Spain, stopping Milan (the financial center of Italy) for lunch and then again in Nice, France to spend the night. The next day we were on the bus by 8:30am and made to Valladolid between 1:00am and 2:00am.
The trip was indescribable, the best part wasn't getting to see all the places in Italy, but to spend 12 days with my friends, bonding in ways otherwise impossible and meeting new people in my grade that I would have otherwise never known existed. The staying up until 2 -3 in the morning, eating the worst types of food possible, the inside jokes, the drama that in the end brought us closer... these are the things that made the trip unforgettable.
After a weekend of nothing but sleeping (the first morning I slept until 3 in the afternoon... new record) and going to sleep a bit earlier and napping a bit more during the school week I'm more or less caught up on sleep.
This weekend was the 'Feria de Abril' which is a fair Sevilla is famous for, this year Valladolid decided to have it's own version of it. My host mom put together two dresses flamenco dresses for her and my sister, and I tried on a Sevillana Riding outfit which fit and on Saturday we went to a Sevillana parade with horses. My sister and I ended up riding in a buggy in the parade, the parade we really small, but it was still really cool. :D
AFter the parade I got to ride a horse, Spanish style which was really exciting.
And finally today I had Chinese food for the first time since I left... personally Chinese food in America is better, but it wasn't bad ;)
until next time ----
The next morning we stopped in Nimes, France to walk around and look around and ate breakfast. Then we continued to Monte Carlo. Monte Carlo was really pretty and it ended up being a cooler then I thought it was going to be. Most of us didn't expect much of it, but once we saw it surprised by its beauty and vowed that once we are rich and famous we're going to get houses there. We also saw all the super nice cars everyone living there had... I don't know much about cars, but the ones there were impressive.
After spending the night in Nice, France we kept on driving until we got to Pisa, Italy.
It was in Pisa when I realized 'holy crap! I'm in Italy, I'm standing in front of the leaning tower of Pisa!!'
From Pisa we went to Rome, where we stayed for three days.
'All roads lead to rome'.. or maybe not? Who knows?
For me Rome was an impressive and gorgeous city. The best part of Rome was that we had a lot of free time so at the end of the three days we knew how to get around parts of Rome without using a map.
After Rome we spent the day in Siena, which went horribly. It was a cold, rainy, windy day, my umbrella broke, and there wasn't anywhere indoors we could go because Siena was a very outdoorsy city. I felt sick almost the whole day, so I didn't eat lunch. We had 3 hours of free time to eat lunch and my friends and I managed to find a phone room off the side of the street to stay at least dry... it was still really cold. We ended up huddled all together on the floor to try and keep warm. Then when it finally was time to go back to the bus I literally needed help to walk, because my legs couldn't support my weight. (this was because I didn't eat lunch) so my friends made me eat a whole packet of sandwich meat... by the time I was back at the bus I was walking normal again, but my stomach cramped up again... not funnn.
That night by the time we were in Florence, thankfully, I felt fine.
Florence, is a city exceptionally pretty, it's architecture is so different from the architecture in Rome. One thing that I lovedd about Florence was the waffles. Yummm, Florence had waffles to die for, picture this: thick warm waffles covered in rich melted Nutella. :)))
Also in Florence we saw the famous statue of David.
We spent one full day in Florence and the next day we left for Lido di Jesolo, a city close to Venice.
Venice. Venice, needless to say, is breathtaking. It once again down poured the whole day, but me and my friends didn't let it stop us from exploring the streets (Venice is probably one the most dysfunctional, confusing city to navigate though that has ever existed).
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| In Venice |
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| we couldn't even climb the stupid stairs... |
Then that night in Lido de Jesolo, we were allowed to go out to a discoteca until 2:00am which was a lot of fun... some of our teachers went with us and watching them dance... I wish a brought my camera... it was hilarious
The net day we began our trip back to Spain, stopping Milan (the financial center of Italy) for lunch and then again in Nice, France to spend the night. The next day we were on the bus by 8:30am and made to Valladolid between 1:00am and 2:00am.
The trip was indescribable, the best part wasn't getting to see all the places in Italy, but to spend 12 days with my friends, bonding in ways otherwise impossible and meeting new people in my grade that I would have otherwise never known existed. The staying up until 2 -3 in the morning, eating the worst types of food possible, the inside jokes, the drama that in the end brought us closer... these are the things that made the trip unforgettable.
After a weekend of nothing but sleeping (the first morning I slept until 3 in the afternoon... new record) and going to sleep a bit earlier and napping a bit more during the school week I'm more or less caught up on sleep.
This weekend was the 'Feria de Abril' which is a fair Sevilla is famous for, this year Valladolid decided to have it's own version of it. My host mom put together two dresses flamenco dresses for her and my sister, and I tried on a Sevillana Riding outfit which fit and on Saturday we went to a Sevillana parade with horses. My sister and I ended up riding in a buggy in the parade, the parade we really small, but it was still really cool. :D
AFter the parade I got to ride a horse, Spanish style which was really exciting.
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| My host mom made both dresses and my skirt... yeah she got skills :) |
And finally today I had Chinese food for the first time since I left... personally Chinese food in America is better, but it wasn't bad ;)
until next time ----
thanks for sharing all those wonderful experiences. Love all the pictures but think the one with you on horse back is my favorite. What happened to my little girls in those last few months? You look all grown up in that picture. Love, like always, mom
ReplyDeleteNice story about your Italy-trip, very nice savillana dress!! Jammer (I forgot the word in Englisch sorry) that you were sick the day in Siena and the wetter could have been better, but I'am glad you did enjoy your time in Italy.
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