So today I accidently took a 3 hr joyride on the buses of Siena... this whole bus thing really has me frustrated. Today is some sort of holiday here and apparently on holidays the bus schedule changes and routes are different... also there are two bus number 9's and bus number 10's... I got a lot of reading in though.... on a positive note... I started reading ''Sex, drugs, and Cocoa Puffs''... its not what it sounds like... its actually very critical of pop culture and sort of makes fun of the culture or Americana. Its very entertaining and I havent been able to put it down.
I studied Italian last night... and before that Maura and I went into town and met Kyle. We found a little playground and had an awesome picnic. Kyle's ''dad'' sent with him really good food and homemade wine. mmmmmm...
Yesterday was the first day I really started to miss my family and friends... I think the newness of this Italian wonderland is wearing off. I have now been here a week and it is getting more familiar. I guess the high is wearing off... not that that is a bad thing... I think now I will truly see the Italian culture and not the shiny surface that a typical tourist sees... which is why I signed up for this program in the first place. Also yesterday I was having lunch with my new friends and I made some sarcastic joke... because thats just how I am....and I know my friends back home would have been rolling on the ground with laughter and instead I just got looked at funny. I dont know.. sometimes I feel like these people don't really get me... but we all get along really well and have lots of fun.
Saturday we went to San Gimignano which is a really small medievel town in the heart of Tuscany. It was breathtakingly beautiful. Maura, Kyle and I climbed the tower and I got a little teary eyed because it was a 360° view of vineyards, olive trees, and green green green....
It was typical picturesque highly sought after view of Tuscany.... everything I hoped to see and more... I get a little emo.... I just couldn't believe I was really standing there seeing that. I feel really really lucky.... Then we saw this big piece of art that covered an entire wall of like a church... it had the real gold halos around each of their heads... like in the artbooks you see in school... again I was overtaken with emotion.. good thing I was wearing sunglasses... its very surreal to be standing in front of something so large and so old.... and still so beautiful...
I am still very happy... I love this place..I just wish the Italian language would magically make sense in my brain to the point of fluency.... hahaha....Ciao....
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