My first day of class

Today was the first day of school! My classes start at 9 am so I headed out around 8:20 ( It takes 30 mins to walk to class and I wanted to be 10 mins early). I walk to school by myself because all the other girls don't start till 10:30. On the walk to school something crazy happened... There is this part in the side walk where the trees have taken over. so you have to run around these trees so you don't get hit by the on coming traffic. The trees are so wide that you cant see what is on the other side. As I ran around this tree to avoid on coming traffic a man is standing on the other side with no pants on or underwear! Yep.... thats right... I  did not know what to do. I froze and just stood there like an idiot... then I ran and laughed really hard to myself. It was a great way to start my morning! My classes were really great! I am going to school with people from all over the world... Russia, Jordan, Israel, Italy, America. When it was my turn to tell everyone where I was from the all turned around and looked at me in amaze..     "OH MY GOSH... your form Orange County!!! Thats soo cool" it was really funny. My other class my teacher did not show up, so thats pretty nice. After class I walked back and took my time... I found this really pretty church and sat inside for a while. when I got back to the apartment molly and I went to the store. We also wanted to go to belly dancing class ( I am on an adventure mights as well try it!) but the lady never showed up (silly italians). We went shopping instead. I bought a really cute dress. It was a great first day of class! 

Molly and I eating a really yummy pizza

This really cool display in a window. Its a bunch of stamps from all over the world
This is the church I found on the way back from school. I sat in it today for like 20 mins just because I could... it was really cool
Lindsay and I getting our first coffee before class
First day of school! Got my lunch! 
Planning Party!

This has nothing to do with Rome

but i really miss resse! look how cute she is!

Stepping back in time

Well today was a late start, I woke up at 1:30 pm haha. We went to the school around 3 for a tour of ancient rome. It was really cool to see where Julius Caesar was killed and the ghetto during World War II. The tour kind of got old really fast and we could not understand our tour guide so we left and headed over to the colosseum. It was amazing! We then headed back because I had dinner with some family friends from back home who now live in Rome. We went to dinner in the this cute little square on the way to my school. It was a great italian dinner and it was so nice to be with familiar faces. Tomorrow is the first day of school so I am going to go to bed early! wish my luck!  Here are some pictures from my day. 

Family Friends 
Walking to the colosseum 
Sisterhood of the traveling headband 
Molly and I 
The center of Roma
The Ghetto 
sisterhood of the traveling headband
Our tour guide
Our stairs. 7 flights down 
The Roommates: Girls night out 

Your different Italy

Today was a more relaxed day. Though we did wake up early, which was soo difficult for me. We had to go to school for some orientation stuff. I thought I was going to fall a sleep, but i did learn some interesting things. one interesting fact about my school is that it use to be a convent. 

After our lame meetings, we went to the grocery store.  This time I felt way more confident about shopping. I also concurred the weighing of the fruit! I bought some eggs ( which are just sitting on the shelf not refrigerated) and found some tortillas. When I got home I made a breakfast burrito. it was great! 

So we all have been taking cold... scratch that.. FREEZING cold showers the past 4 days and our washing machine was not work. So today a man came to fix the hot water and the washing machine. I felt like a girl when we found out that we need to just plug in the washing machine and the hot water turns off and on by flipping a switch. We all thought it was a light switch but could not figure out where the light was so we kept it off... it was the hot water. Stupid us! :P 

We are all relaxing right now . Later we are going to a BBQ and a night out on the town. 

My Apartment: 2nd from the top
Our really small elevators 
Mastering the fruit 
Our gate to our Apartment 
Beautiful flowers

They say its good luck

I had a lot of trouble sleeping last night... there are many reasons why... first because of the time difference... Second because the train is right out side my window ( I swear it climbs 7 flights of stairs and stops in our bed room, its that loud) ... and third its soooo HOT! But besides the lack of sleep I have had a great day! 

We headed out around 11 am. My school has two different campuses in Rome so we went to the first one to get our ID cards and then headed over to the main campus for lunch and to print some things out.  One of the many cool things about my school is that you can sign up for activities to do through out the semester.  Some are silly like belly dancing ( but who knows I am on an adventure maybe ill try it) but some are sweet like cooking classes and wine tasting.  we signed up for cooking classes today and tomorrow i think we are signing up for the trip to a vineyard to go wine tasting.  

After signing up for all the fun activities we went on a long walk. we ended up at the Vatican, which was soo beautiful. We didn't go in side, but we will in the next couple of weeks. On the way back we got soo lost! it was awesome haha. its great because we have the time to get lost and find our way around. Along with getting lost a bird decided to pooh  on me! (which is the third time this year!)

We finally made it home and hung around the house for an hour or so. Then went to dinner at a sushi restaurant. Which was hilarious! It was soo hard to order. we are pretty sure that there were 4 different languages being said at once... Chines, English, Spanish, and Italian! it was great! i decided to go with the dumplings and fired rice just to be safe. Over all it was a great and busy day. here are some pictures! 

One of my class rooms
Walking to our school
Me getting bird pooh on me and my really dirty legs
Right when the bird let it out. (they say its good luck!)
Cooling off. Its sooo HOT!
Gelato 

Right outside out Apartment 

IM IN ROME!

HEY everyone! i finally got to Rome! its been soo great so far. My first day here was a really long day! i was so tired so i took a little nap. My roommates and I all decided to go out to dinner it was so fun to get to know the girls! everyone is super nice and we get along great!

Today we slept in till about 10. After getting up, we went to the super market and bought some food for the next couple of days. It was a cool experience, but difficult at times. Simple things like going shopping was hard. like... You have to weigh your food and then get these print outs before you pay. I did not know this so when i got to the front of the line the lady got all mad. we held up the line for about 10 mins. before we figured out what she was saying. haha awesome right?!   We also went to out school for a welcome meeting. it was a long walk about 20 mins or so. Ill take some pictures tomorrow and show you. its really pretty.

Another great thing about my trip is that my old neighbors from home now live in Rome. she came and picked up all 7 of us and took us to a place like walmart and Ikea! I purchased a blow dryer! After,  we were all so tired from the long day that we just came home and made dinner.  Here are some pictures of me Apartment and my roommate! 

The Kitchen
Roommate 
My room
my view from my room! 

Niagara Falls and on my way to Rome!

We woke up early this morning to go see Niagara falls. It was soo cool! Today is going to be an amazing day... Niagara Falls to london to Rome all in 24 hours.. its crazy! here are some pictures! 

I don't no when ill have internet again but when I do I will up date my blog! 

Today was a great day with my parents! we woke up this morning and went to the Casino for Brunch. After brunch 

my mom and I had some great mother daughter bonding over a relaxing Facial and massage! ( Thank you Brother Gary!) 

The thing I was looking forward to most about this trip was seeing where my dad works. IT WAS AMAZING! Here are some sweet pictures. 



later in the afternoon we went on a drive around Redhouse Lake.

Tomorrow is the big day! I am leaving for rome, but before I leave we are going to Niagara Falls!

Welcome to Buffalo, New York

I made it to Buffalo! Some fun pictures of my trip will be posted tonight! 

OH! remember how I was excited that I got both my bags under 50 pounds... well for some reason my scale at home was off by 20 so pounds... 85 pounds for bag one, 64 pounds for bag two. OPPS! 

My last night

For my last night I went out with some of my closest friends! We went to this great Sushi Restaurant in Laguna Beach, then headed over to Yogurtland, and finished the night at the village Cafe. It was a great time with my friends! Here are some pictures of the night :)