Let the tears begin........

Ciao Ciao.

WELL….What to say in these last final blogs? I think I will start crying now…..

Well Saturday night I cooked an amazing dinner of chicken and veggies and then got ready and went out for a bit with the girls after skyping Stacey about coming here next semester (I am so jealous it’s not even legitly funny.) and finally talking to my cousin Ali! I can’t believe she is graduating high school………I am getting so old.

Anyways....... so then I came home and went to bed after chatting with Alexa for a bit.. Then I woke up Sunday morning and did laundry and met Haleigh down by the Arno to tan for a bit. Ughh it was SO hot and I swear I practically got more sun in those 2.5 hours than I did in Forte Dei Marmi last weekend. I brought my stuff to study but that was a fail…… Lauren eventually came and met us and Hal and I were like girl we won’t be here much longer, both of us were way too hot. So Hal and I left about 3:15 and went and got gelato! Best gelato ever! I found out my favorite gelato place actually has it’s “sister store” right by Santa Croce and is so much closer than the one across the river! Wish I would have known that all semester, but that means I would have gotten it more! Haha!! So then I came home and showered and then made my dinner of meat and veggies! It was DELICIOUS!!!!! Then I “began to study” for my Customer Relations and Special Events final. I swear I don’t even think a bottle of adderal could have helped me stay focused enough to study….. I have no attention span to study after how bad last semester was. I just kept wishing SEIGS was with me to help me procrastinate like normal. : (

Then I did benderball real quick and then went to Ainsley’s so her, Jenny, Hal, and I could study together for our Special Events final. I don’t think I would have studied anymore by myself than I did with them. We didn’t get as much done as we thought we would but all of us couldn’t help but procrastinate and get off topic! Haha! So finally, I was tired and Hal didn’t feel good so we all went home.

So then I came home, caught up with Alexa, then went to bed! This morning I woke up and studied again for my Special Events final and then went to class a bit early to study more. Then I finally took the final and wrote my dang brains out. It was horrible how much I had to write, but hopefully I did okay! We will see!! Then I met up with Hal again for Pino’s and got the amazing sandwich again! It’s just so good with the spinach and eggplant and pesto! I love it! Then I went to go try and buy my baking book…….they didn’t have it so I had to wait and hope the other place had it. SO then I went up to Italian and we reviewed for our final and then I went in search of the other place to find my baking book. Yes I haven’t bought my book yet! Haha! Val had it and so did Lola and I didn’t think I would ever need it, nor are the recipes in American cooking styles anyways….. It’s all in grams and Celsius temperatures so I didn’t think it was worth it to get it…..But I changed my mind and bought it. Luckily they had it! SO I bought that and then dropped my stuff off at home and went out for my run/walk before going to pick up my book once they had it copied and then came home to quickly stretch and book it back down to school to take my Customer Relations final. I thought I wrote a lot in Special Events this morning. That’s a joke…………… I wrote so freeking much!!!! It was all essays on this one, so hopefully I did okay! Again------we will have to see!

So then I went and got gelato at my new favorite place technically and then ate it in Santa Croce square since it was so pretty out. Then I was going to get a kebab, but it was only 4:30….. I thought I cooked my last dinner last night, but I decided to go to the grocery store and buy a chicken and other stuff. I bought my last container of fresh pesto today probs……..I could cry. SO then I came home, caught up with Alexa for a bit, and made pasta to use up my pasta and sauce…..Then I cut up the chicken and dipped it in KC MASTERPIECE. Umm DELICIOUS doesn’t even explain how freeking amazing it was!! It was soooooo good it’s not even funny!

So then I cleaned up my laundry and caught up with faceboook…..now I am writing this and about to study for Baking and Accounting in a bit if I can get myself to focus enough…….

SO other than all this……. Let the tears begin. I am going to be a freeking emotional wreck the next few days and I probably won’t even be able to see Friday and Saturday. I don’t know what I am going to do without seeing Sam, Ainsley, Chris, Hal, Amy, and B especially all the time! Grrrrrr that we all live so far apart! But I can’t wait to visit them soon enough!

I can’t even begin to explain how truly amazing the past 4 months have been and when everyone asks me how studying abroad was when I get home, I am not going to know what to say because there are no words to explain it.

I literally do feel like this is all still a dream though.. I feel like on January 24 my life stopped and then on May 14 my life will come back. It’s like I was in a coma the past 4 months and I was just dreaming all this up in my head because I still can’t believe I am in freeking Italy and I have been to over like 20 cities. It has to be a dream.

Freeking Ainsley is going to Hong Kong after she goes to London for a few days and JEALOUS doesn’t even begin to explain how I feel. I would LOVEEEEE to go to Hong Kong. : (

But really, I don’t have many regrets from this past semester trip wise….. I pretty much went at least somewhere each weekend I think besides before and after midterms…. But really the only other places I would have loved to go to was Amsterdam, Brighton to see Tricia, the Amalfi Coast, and maybe Prauge. But it’s okay! I really wish I could have made it to Brighton to see Trish, but the timing never worked out and it was super expensive. : ( Just all the more reason I will be coming back in the future!!!!!!

Also, Haleigh gave me some extra Crystal Light packets since she brought so many…..I had a fruit punch today and it was delicious of course. I am saving the wild strawberry ones for Thursday and Friday. But between having those and KC Masterpiece, can we talk about how much better my life is with those. But can we also talk about how much my life is going to suck when I don’t have fresh pesto to dip my carrots in, the best dried fruit ever to snack on, the best gelato of cookies and cheesecake, amazing cannoli, blood oranges and blood orange juice, amazing hummus to dip my carrots in, fresh pasta……….ughhhh I am rambling and wanting to tear up now.

Well, until tomorrow….Ciao Ciao. I am going to go cry now.

Love and Miss.