Florence

Barcelona & Madrid, Spain

Last of Roma

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Me and Chelsea @ Trajans Column, Rome

Me NOT posing for the camera! Near the monumnet of Victor Manuelle, looking back at the basilica

oops! threw a Florence picture in here :) this is the Arno River in Florence right by my house!

Me and Chelsea @ the monument of Victor Manuelle! My favorite Monument...

The Pantheon

Trevi Fountain

Dan and I tossin coins into the Trevi Fountain! Myth has it: if you toss one coin in, you will return to Rome. 2 coins, you will me an Italian girl! 3 coins, you will return to Rome and marry the Italian girl!!
I tossed 3 ;)

Piazza de Papolo

Dan and I @ the famous Spanish Steps

Me and my new best friend!

Holdin' up the flag @ the Roma soccer game!

Roma vs. Chelsea (London)

The fans....

We won 3-1

@ a John Legend and The Cure concert in Rome

Dan in front of the church of San Giovanni. The inside is HUGE!

Ciao!
its freezing here!! Living in hawaii, i forgot what fall and winter are like. however, the changing colors of the leaves are beautiful. and its kind of fun to dress in 3 layers of clothes. we are now into our 2nd week of school in florence. this past weekend i had a couple friends visit, so we walked around florence and even toured the Duomo (the main cathedral in forence). its huge and you can see so far from the top! on sunday we went to pisa (a one hour train ride) to see the leaning tower, cool stuff. we have a midterm at the end of this week and a paper due soon enough so ill be hittin the books and the gym!!!
ill post some pictures soon!
cory

hola!!

spain is awesome!! me and april are enjoying our week break from school in barcelona and madrid...

we flew from pisa (itlay) to barcelona on tuesday and met up with our friend, cory from hawaii. he is here visiting friends that are studying in spain.  we went out with them tuesday night and stayed in a nice hostel in the center of barcelona. wednesday we woke up early and went sight seeing, turns out i am a phenomenal tour guide! i took some great pictures with my camera that i cant wait to show you all!! we visited all the sights mainly built by the famous Gaudi.  we visited many museums, monuments, a cathedral, and even the olympic stadium where the 1992 olympics were held.  

wednesday nite we joined up with cory and his friends and went to a barcelona soccer game, which was WILD!

this morning was a little bit of a struggle, but we caught our plane to madrid and are staying with aprils friend at her apartment.  emily is a professional waterpolo player from new zealand. she played for hawaii and also plays on the national team in N zealand.  were going sight seeing tomarrow and will return to florence on saturday.  

until then, 

adios!

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Dominating in Ultimate frisbee!! (Tuscania)

Brit, Me, and April in front of the Trevi Fountain (Rome)

3 cities students at wine tasting/dinner (Tuscania)

Me and my roomate Dan traded clothes for a day!

Me trying to catch a pidgeon (Rome)

things are going great!
its been nothing but school this week. big papers to turn in. but ive gotten some site seeing in!
im looking forward to this weekend thogh. halloweens gonna be crazy! idk wat im gonna be yet??
theres a girl from hawaii whos studying in florence who i met through facebook though a friend...anyway shes never been to rome so im gonna take her around n get some site seeing in for myself at the same time. then in a couple weeks wen im in florence shes gonna take me around! its a 2way street!
next week is our last week in rome. which means finals! but im really looking forward to our break which comes up the week after, im going to barcelona and madrid, spain.
then school starts in florence!
im really looking forward to travel after school. paris, dublin, london, amsterdam, berlin, and munich!!! then its back to portand :( hahanah, im gonna be sad. but im really starting to miss hawaii and nao and the fam. i get back the 26th, theres a Blazers game on the 27th against toronto that id really like to see! i know kelley wants to go, but hopefully i can drag grandma youngberg along with me! i talked to grandma the other day, n she told me all about her new dog! im happy for her! good to hear from you aunt cindy!! hope to see u all soon!
cory

we had our midterm yesterday (thursday, 24th). im pretty confident that i did well! not only do i stay awake in the 2 1/2 hours of class, but the material we are covering in class is really interesting! we are learning the history of the time periods between the late roman empire and the early renaissance! we also have some papers due in the near future. one paper im writing on the BLack Plague, and the other on a church that we took a class field trip too. The weekends have slowed down. more studying and site seeing, less party time. we get all excited wen we go new places, but its nice when things start to settle down. for my next break in early november, im traveling to Barcelona and Madrid! i have a friend from hawaii who will be there during that time, so ill get to meet up with him, his name is cory as well, and we can see the world!
on sunday im going to the vatican ealry in the morning. every last sunday of the month, its free admission and the pope comes out and walks around! then im going to a soccer game! the feature match of the year between the two rome rivals: lazio vs. Roma.
its like the civil war when these two teams play. very serious buisness here...
i bought my ticket today, and they came with brass knuckles ;) kidding.
anyways, all is good. ill give you an update soon (if im still alive after the soccer game)!
feel free to comment on the posts, love to hear from you!

Class trip to the The Forum and The Colosseum

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the four stooges, silly pic...

Cory inside the Colosseum (its 10 times bigger than it looks in pictures!)

in front of what used to be a huge church

class trip in The Forum

Tossing the frisbee around with Dan in front of the Colosseum

Settled

WOW,
it seems like the past few weeks have been nothing but GO-GO-GO! i guess thats what you must expect from a huge city like Rome...
school has been much more relaxed this month, however, we have a midterm on thursday, not even 2 weeks into class!! A 1250 word essay due next week, 5000 due the next week on top of a final, and 2500 words for our research project!! you get the picture...
however, i have gotten a chance to do some things ive been wanting to do. ive gotten to see the colosseum, the forum, pantheon, trevi fountain, etc. and got to travel back to tuscania and viterbo this past weekend because the italians had a birthday party for me! one of my friends, marco, who lives on a farm, slaughtered one of his pigs and we roasted it! everyone came and we told stories n drank wine and had a really good time!
i found out that i have internet in my house. well, not in my house but outside the window! so me and dan set our computers up in the windowsill and sit and type right next to each other!! its great because usually i have to go ALL the way to school to use internet which is a huge drag. transportation in rome sucks! it takes me 20 minutes to get to school! i have to walk 5 min to the metro, the a 10-12 min metro ride, and another 5 minute walk uphill to school. then walk up 3 flights of stairs! life sucks huh ;)
anyways, i better get started on those essays!!
ciao

Trip to Naples, Sorrento, Capri, Positano, Amalfi, and Salerno!

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Me and Brit in Capri

Walking to out bed&breakfast

Capri sunset

Capri

Positano

Streets of Naples

drinkin' a Heiny in front of a massive castle (Naples)

museum in Naples

on the ferri to Capri with Mt. Vesuvius in the background...

en route to capri