#dead diary

Story time! Today: My trip to Italy in 2013.

I made the trip with my old class as some sort of ‘graduation journey’. The bus ride itself was awesome and funny. The drive was very long ( I think about 8 hours) but the landscape was beautiful.

@michelmcfly​ / @chellum​ used to say:”Oh my gosh, look! How romantic!”, all the time. We also droe through a tunnel that was long af. I thought we’ll never see the light again. Rip.

We stayed at a campsite (San Benedetto) in nice little bungalows right next to the lake Garda, which I shared with @michelmcfly​ / @chellum​ , @kiraeh97​  and another friend of ours (ok back then we weren’t friends at all but we got along and she wasn’t around most of the time anyway).

(I have no idea what’s wrong with @michelmcfly​ / @chellum​ in this picture.) I shared a room with @michelmcfly​ / @chellum​  (of cause) and we had way too much fun as soon as the bedroom door closed (not ambiguous at all ;) ). We laughed about the light dimmer, made shadow plays, looked at the photos from each day and zommed in only too laugh about random people in the background and not to forget I twerked for her and she just said:”You‘re not Miley Cyrus.”. I’m sure there were even more crazy things we did but these are the best ones I can remember. Our window (it’s the one she’s standing in front of on the picture) was also perfect for stalking everyone who came by. Like I said the bungalow was quite nice, but we had some problems with ants (we bought a trap for them) and needed one day to figure out that we need to turn on the heater (which was in the main room) as soon as we can and leave the other doors to our rooms open so they can also warm up ( we were there at in autumn and at night is was cold af).

On our first real day we checked out locations in the neughbourhood ( Peschiera and Sirmione) which showed us the typical italian architecture and the lake garda in day light and we tasted out first italian ice cream.

We walked up a little hill and took a funny ‘street train’ back down and waved and screamed at all people we’re passing. Crazy tourists. The funniest thing was when one of our teachers said:”I’ve got a suprise for you!”, and everyone thought that we’re going to get ice cream or something like that and then we walked to a train station and her daugther came out of a train. She invited her daugther to stay with us. Ok….but why is that a suprise for us? We never saw her before and maybe ever heard of her existence. Like…wtf. Tbh everyone was quite pissed. :’D We ate dinner at the campsite and they had little fishs as snaks which I thought was disgusting because you could still see their little eyes and stuff but two of my friends tried them as a test of courage. Disgusting.

The next day was my personal highlight because we visited Venice which was really really beautiful. We took a ferry to get there and were able to discover the city by ourselfs for some hours.

Besides exploring Venice and shopping souvenirs we used our free time to eat a real italian pizza and another italian ice cream (as if these were the only to things too eat in whole Italy. lol.). Our group had this thing that one classmate started. We were shouting around the word “Whop!” all the time which was handy if you searched the others. You just needed to shout “Whop!” and if you got an answer you knew they weren’t far. It became a real insider on this trip.

In the evening the campsite made a ‘disco’ for kids but it was really boring so we went back to our bungalows and had the best prank idea. We hided in the bungalow of our friends, turned the light of etc. and pranked @michelmcfly / @chellum who came later because….idk where she was (?). It was really hard to stay quite but her reaction was to funny even if our prank was just stupid. :’D We even repeated this ‘prank’a couple of times. Another funny thing was, when we had a huge moth in our friends bungalow and all of us ran for their lifes. One of our boys who saw us running out of the bungalow asked what we’re doing and we told him about the moth (he was a very muscular / strong guy). He took a look inside the bungalow and ran our screaming. My kind of aesthetics. But the ‘best’ thing was when one of our classmates were drugged. we didn’t know how it happened but he was stoned af. Another classmate took him for a walk to calm down and when they came back he started to tell that they saw a HUGE beaver. It was funny but from todays perspective it could have been very dangerous. He was responsible for too many funny things that evening and I bet that I only remember half of it.

We also went to Verona ( the City of Rome and Juliet) on our next day. It’s a really cute city (but the highlight was probably the Disney Store).

Thank’s to my english teacher in highschool I am able to say the beginning of Romeo and Juliet by heart now: “Two households both alike in dignity ; In fair Verona where we lay our scene ; From acient grudge break to new mutiny ; Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean…” There’s that bitch’s balcony:

Ok, it was quite romantic and cute back then, but now that I read the drama for english class I can’t see or hear anything from Romeo and Juliet ever again. I’m done with Shakespeare. In the evening we went to buy a cake for @kiraeh97 because her birthday was at the next day and gave it to her right after midnight. In between we had a dinner with the whole group at which we gave our teachers shirts with the italian flag and our insider ("Whop!").

Our last day was pretty much driving on a boat over the lake garda the whole day… Of cause we made breakes to check out two towns (they were really beautiful but we’re just so tired). Of cause we needed to eat another ice cream in one of the towns.

In the evening we finally arrived ot the habour where our bus waited and after another pizza we were able to ride home.

RIP to all the mediaeval peasants who never knew the joys of buying two litres of chocolate milk. 😭

I'm in such a good mood! Came by the greengrocer right as they were putting out their HEAVILY-discounted elderly stock. Got nearly 3kg of mushrooms for like five bucks! 😁😁😁

2kg of regular button mushrooms, plus two punnets of fancy mushrooms.