So, I'm in Florence and have a little apartment! A very little apartment. Pictures to come. I think I'll have Internet in the apartment, it's just that there is a key for the wireless and I don't know what it is and my landlord hasn't called me yet. I'm betting he's still on vacation, so I may not have Internet until September. But, I have figured out how to work the washer, which was quite a feat and now my clothes are hanging to dry very very slowly.
The first few days here were horrible because I was just sort of left on my own and didn't know what to do and didn't have a place to stay or even leave my bags, so I was constantly lugging my bags around with me in 90 degree heat. But, since I finally got a place to call my own and a phone things have been becoming much nicer. My Italian is improving, but kind of slowly. Since this is such a big tourist town a lot of people speak English anyway. So, seeing as I have mostly American t-shirts, I get spotted pretty quickly and people just speak English to me. Some of them though will speak Italian if I just keep going with it. I do miss speaking French though. I've been writing to friends from Belle-Ile in French, but that's a whole different challenge.
My house is across a bridge just outside of the center city here. I found out today that it's about a 25 minute walk to school. But I'm in the middle of a lot of museums and up above me are big gardens of historic names. I tried to go up to them one night but apparently they're gated and you can only get in at certain times.
Anyway, I was about to start uploading pictures, but since I'll have to upload one file at a time and I have probably 100 from Belle Ile, Paris, and here, I'll just have to wait until later or something. So, until another time!
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