Ok so I realize that it has been a long time since I have been able to get on the internet, but we actually made it to Italy. It only took us 28 hours, yes we had a 5 hour layover in Washington DC and then in Munich. Because we had so much time we were able to adjust our sleeping habits during travel making jet lag almost nonexistant which I guess is one plus to a gruelling travel experience.

I have so much to put up but I will try and space it out. I spent three weeks in Siena, Italy for orientation and an "intensive" language course (I can order things in a bar now and tell people where I am from). Now I am living in an apartment smack in the center of Florence, Italy a city of half a million, much more than what I am used to in Puyallup. I live with Becca, a friend from Pacific Lutheran University and Liz a student at Babson College in Boston. So not only do I have a bunch of stories about the difference between home and Italy but about home and the East Coast.