Ok, so i'm extremely excited to be writing this blog but i'm running on negative sleep so i'll be brief. I promise that in future posts ill be fun and witty with italy jokes but I may or may not be unconscious at the present. So it seems as though people like talking to me on planes. This may be due to my smiley nature and general friendly disposition. So I met Jim from Maine on my way to Philly. Thankfully I wasn't whitening my teeth this time so I didnt drool. Great progress on my part. We were keeping up quite well conversationally until i made a joke about a fanny pack and Jim decided he was over my antics. At this point he literally turned his back to me to talk to his other seatmate. Whatever Jim, i was tired anyway and i'm not entirely sure how i feel about the shorts with loafers look. So we'll see ya. Met up with Rachel in Philly (she missed her plane) and managed to get on the same flight to Frankfurt and we actually hustled her neighbs so we could sit together. If you don't know who Rachel is, she is a Gamma Phi from Fullerton who is on my same program. She's obviously a baller if shes a G-phi but i've determined that her and I both share a deep love for sarcasm, jokes that could be misconstrued as bitchy but are actually all in good fun, and alcohol. Fantastic. T-R-O-U-B-L-E. Anyway we discussed our lives and caught each other up on the current boy situations back on the mainland so we're prepared to regulate each others BLDs while abroad. Ok this was the highlight of my day so i have to include it. If you know anything about me you know that i have a makeup train case thats kind of obnoxious, which i usually take as a carry on while traveling. its been confused with a tacklebox on ocassion....ok whatever. So German Security homeboy stops me in Frankfurt because this box is obviously suspicious. But before getting down to the reason he called me over, he decides to try out his "American" and greet me with a traditional American Greeting. "WAZZZZUPPP" he says. when you read this, read it like Arnold would. i know hes Austrian but you get the idea. I obviously laugh because...this is reality, and then he gets all offcial and has me open the case just so he can tell me that my amount of makeup is "unbelievable" and "unnecessary." ok. K. so then Rachel and i make it to our hotel (http://www.hoteladlercavalieri.com/) and straight up get our nap on. Thennnn we get ready for dinner and SURPRISE we're 15 minutes late for our Welcome Dinner. NBD, we take our time and walk downstairs because our group would never leave with out us....WRONG. They for surebounced out. Now it's me, Rachel, and our touristy MAP blues clues style. So we head out for the restaurant to find them only to find that we've been walking the wrong way for 15 minutes. GREAT. Then we proceed to walk around like were not obnoxious tourists who are lost, as i stealthly take pictures of the gorgeous sunset on the river and other fun buildings. We arrive about an hour late HAHAHAHA which is completely standard for me and, as ive learned, normal on Rachel's end too. We ate at an adorable restaurant called "Golden View" overlooking the river and had Bruschetta, Penne with red sauce and zucchinni, Spinich Ravioli with cheese sauce, and tiramisu. NOM. Also like 3 glasses of wine. DOUBLE NOM. I met everyone on the program including future roomz, Sarah, who is also super cool. We all went to a rando Bar afterwards and took flaming lemon-vodka shots. Rachel said she would do "anything" for them to put a G-phi shirt on the ceiling. This gave me the giggles. There is gelato on every corner, and everyone in my group is fun. I can already tell that this trip is going to be amazing and absolutely life-changing. Now i'm going to fall asleep watching the Italian equivalent to PBS. Baller.
CIAO :)
oh ps heres my fave pic i took while trying not to be a tourist on our way to dinner.
CIAO :)
oh ps heres my fave pic i took while trying not to be a tourist on our way to dinner.
