Internet YAY!

Yay! I finally got the Internet in my apartment! WooHoo!
Not too much to report, many of the others are getting sick, so I'm trying to avoid the same fate. I'm just trying to make sure I sleep a lot, I think I get tired here much quicker, probably because Its just exhausting to concentrate so much.

I feel like I've kind of been on a roller coaster. When you prepare to go abroad they tell you that you will have ups and downs. Its totally true. Sometimes I just can't believe I'm here and I have an amazing time, sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be here so long and I miss home a lot. So I mean again I think I just need to be patient with myself. All in all I'm doing pretty good. If you never push yourself a little, you will never grow I figure.

So I have some new pictures, a little bit of everything, mostly Pisa though where we had way too much fun being tourists.

http://picasaweb.google.com/melaniebeth.martin/31008TheMensaParkCalcioChessFirenzeEPisa#


I am going to Bologna Thurs. with school and the next weekend I'm going to Milan to visit my friend Leigh from UR. She's from Charlottesville and plays Frisbee with me. I'm really excited to visit her. We are planing to take a day trip to lake Como too, which I've heard is gorgeous so that should be fun. After that I probably won't go anywhere for the next few weekends because midterms will be coming up.

I'm still trying to figure out fall break too, lots of people are going different places here, but mostly people are visiting friends that they have who are also abroad. I am thinking of maybe visiting my friend Noelle in Lyon, in the south of France. I'm also considering trying to go to Paris and maybe Spain, there is a friend of mine in Barcelona. We'll see, I'll let you know.

Ciao Ciao!
Melanie