Tuesday September 6, 2010
3:24pm (Florence)
I'm at the hotel now. I pulled out my laptop and converter and realized my converter doesn't have 3 prongs so I’m going to have to buy a new one here. Darn it. I'll wait until everyone gets here and see if other kids are going to buy converters and just go with them when they go. I only have internet for 24 hours and I have to come down to the lobby to check so I’ll check every hour or so. I don’t know what I’m going to do now. I was really planning on watching movies on my laptop but now that wont work :( At least I know for next time I guess... And you know, I can just sit here on their public computers to access the internet and maybe watch Hulu. I'm not going to worry about my laptop right now. I just can’t Skype on this computer. But this is better than nothing!
Ugh. Just realized these computers don’t have Adobe Flash Player so I can’t watch Hulu. Guess I really am going to have to read a book.
I took a 20 minute nap on the plane ride from Rome to Florence, which turned out to be only 30 minutes long... I'm kind of thinking taking the train would've been MUCH better. BUT I did meet these girls from USC(California) who are in the Syracuse program too and this old Italian guy was creeping on me and I had no idea what he was saying and stuff and then I heard this girl speaking Italian and English and she was behind me at baggage claim and I asked her what he was saying and she helped me, then we found out we were all in SUF (there was another girl too) and then we ended up splitting a taxi together and they dropped me off here at the hotel first cause I don’t know any Italian. God is definitely good! :D
But anywhoo, I think I’m going to maybe go upstairs to read. I might get a sandwich later but everything is so expensive!! Luckily, they have a little restaurant here at the hotel that sells snacks and food and whatnot. I can get a sandwich for like $7.
9:57pm (Florence)
I just had an AMAZING nap(from 6ish to 9) and an even more amazing ham and cheese "toast". It was the cheapest thing on the menu (€4) and it was so good! I ate it very slowly and enjoyed every bite!
The hotel is pretty busy now. Actually, really busy. The lobby is now pretty filled with people and these public computers are all full. I luckily got the last one and I am going to be selfish and sit here for a while. :)
There's a group of about six 45-55yr old American women sitting outside on the porch drinking their glasses of white wine and it made me think of Grandma and her girlfriends when they go on their trips :)
I ordered my "toast" from "The American Bar" and the guy there spoke English and was very very kind to me. I was definitely thankful for that! This hotel is not as super nice as the pictures played it out to be but it is definitely very clean, I feel very safe, the staff speak a fair amount of English, and its not on that busy of a street. I haven't heard too much honking :)
Susie, the girl who is sharing the hotel room with me tonight should be arriving soon. I hope we'll go to sleep though not too long after she gets here because I want to walk to the campus in the morning and explore. They said they'll have snacks all day and I'd rather hang out there than here at the hotel. AHH!! I'm going to my first college campus as a college student tomorrow!! :D
The rest of the group arrives around 2ish and I can’t wait to meet everyone! My (hopefully) roomie, Meghan should arrive around 1 and goodness gracious am I excited to finally see her! Meghan saw what I wrote about my converter and said I can use hers when she gets here. She’s so nice. I really pray we're roommates. We just get along so well from what it seems so far from our email conversations.
I left home with a stinky cold and it is still persistent. I sneezed a bunch on the flight. And OH MY GOODNESS I thought my nasal cavities were going to explode from the pressure when we were flying. At one point the pressure became so great I felt a "pop" (at the top of the bridge of my nose in between my eyes) and my nose started to run and I was afraid I got a bloody nose but it wassnot. Was snot. Get it?! :-P But still. Flying with a cold definitely is no fun. Especially when I tried to sleep and couldn't breathe out of my nose and was drooling everywhere before I even really fell asleep. :-O I'm going to take some medicine though and definitely hit up that Benedryl tonight before I go to sleep.
Here are some pictures:
My hotel room #1Hotel room #2
Balcony view from hotel room
So Ta-Ta for now and I’ll update soon!
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