#cumpari

Uncle Angelo stopped by to make #ricotta #italianlife #italianliving #cumpari #zio

Aperitime !!! #cumpari #instapic #drink #igerssicilia #drinking #selfie #wedding (presso Il Marchese)

These past four months have been the most unreal, amazing, funny, happy, inspiring, breath taking, exciting and unforgettable months of my life. Being here is something I could never sum up or explain to anyone in words, it's the best experience I could have asked for and no explanation could do it justice. I have never met more awesome people in my life who I have to leave behind, I've never had such awesome teachers who actually cry at the thought of seeing their students leave. I've never been able to wander around a city and call some foreign country my home for four months. It's something you take for granted when you're in a place like this and you can never even picture leaving until you actually have to, and then the time comes, and then it ends. I have been so lucky to be able to do this, I have seen more places in the past four months than I probably would have in my whole entire life. I wouldn't change a thing about this semester, everything was perfect. Our apartment, our neighborhood, the city, the people, the classes, the casual weekend trips to other countries, pizza and paninis twice a week, nutella at my disposal every second, the beautiful bridge I walked over everyday. There's not one negative experience I can think of, and I am so greatful to be able to say that I had the time of my life in a home away from home for four months. I'll miss everything about my time here and I can't believe something. It's hard to believe that things like this have to end and that I will be going home to New York and probably not coming back to Florence for a good amount of time. Leaving here gives me the worst feeling in my stomach and the saddest thoughts through my head, it makes me so upset and frustrated to realize that this is over. However, I am excited to go home and continue on with my real life with my family, my boyfriend, my friends and my dogs because those are the most important things in my life and being without them for four months is long enough. Florence will always be here, and I'll be back, I'll make sure of it. So bring it on America, you got some big shoes to fill.

On our last day, we stopped at a waterfall park on the way home which was AMAZING. It’s called Krka national park and it’s basically a huge forest with paths and along the way are waterfalls that just keep getting bigger and bigger in size. It was one of the prettiest places I have ever seen. At the end of the path, there’s an ENORMOUS waterfall that we were able to go swimming in, definitely one of the best parts of the trip. Despite the fact that I definitely got sick from body shock and the freezing cold water, it was totally worth it. Croatia is hands down one of the most awesome places I have been to, I had the time of my life and I couldn’t have asked for a better pace to visit

I’m writing about this because it’s funny, and sort of pathetic, however it was not funny at the time…last week we wanted to go to a soccer game because it would have been our last chance. So at the attempt to be super fans, Nicole and I bought shirts, got all ready for the game, walked 45 minutes to the stadium to buy tickets and then our hopes got crushed…We probably walked around the area for an hour trying to find people selling tickets because we were told we could get them at the stadium. But nope, the lines were “closed” to buy tickets…which resorted us to devising horrible plans to get us into the game which ultimately failed. We begged the guards to let us in, asked people on the streets, bribed some workers, bribed some cops, no one budged. Italians are ruthless. We ended up listening to the game through the fence, at least we can say we heard it i guess. In the end it was funny because we couldn't believe how desperate we got hahaha

I keep losing track of this bad boy, I am in the process of writing about this past month with my mom visiting, my trip to cinque terre, lake como, switzerland and croatia oh and the epic fail of a soccer game....STAY TOOOOONED :)

Hahah I'm getting there mom!

you're so funny nicole.