dodici giorni.

buon giorno! I will officially be in the States for another twelve days, and then off to Italia! To answer almost everyone's top three questions:
1. No, I do not know Italian very well. Bits and pieces at best with a little bit of usefulness.
2. This semester does not contribute to my graduation or major, in fact, it does quite the opposite.
3. I will be challenging myself to photograph and describe my food-ventures.

I received a pretty huge wake up call this week through a variety of events. I got very sick and had to reschedule my last month at home, bummer. I scheduled things to happen after I get back, so my life will continue after I live in Florence for 4 months. And (this is the exciting one), Igotallofmylastminutehousingandorientationinformation, YES! I'm kind of a list maker, so this influx of knowledge made my somewhat nervous and mostly crap-my-pants-excited-self, very very happy. I got roommate information along with housing details like where I will be living, etc. Here's the area where we will be living with a pretty good group of API folks:


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We are living on Via Montebello, very near the Piazza Ognissanti. Also, out of dweebiness and excitement, I found that we are about a 10 minute walk from Lorenzo de' Medici, our school. Pretty good stuff :)

So basically, I've started the very real process of organizing my life into three categories: Coming to Italy, definitely not coming to Italy, and could possibly make it into the suitcase. So that's it folks, I can talk about eggs, shoes, and some other random subjects in Italian and I am super ecstatic but still a little scared to get on the plane to Florence.