sunset in Palermo
Palermo beach
gates to Heaven


the hike to the AMAZING veiw
Vulcano, if you look close there is like steam at the top of the moutain i.e. its a valcano
the really windy side of the island


My sad sad shoes, my friend kelsey said that I should take a picture of these shoes and send them to my family and ask for more money haaha
Lucious Green on Lipiri Islands
Lipiri...
our super awsome mini car, I actualy really want one of these
the boat ride to Lipiri
At the shores of Naples

Park of moments thoughts
Cappucino Naples style
These lemons were the size of my head.
Pompeii!


Sorento, the water is just sooooo amazing

The Popes residence during the summer
oil and vinager, my new love
photo shoot
lovely lake

Umm lets see.

Lets start with Midterms, YAY! so haha, I got my midterms back, B, B aaaaand the class I thought I was going to get an A in, C. haha. Shows you never really know, right? So I am pretty sure I am going to get out of here with Straight B's which I am JUST fine with thank you very much. And this is the hardest program I have ever been in soo all B's sounds great.

But after mid-terms I was home alone for like 4 days. It was weird. I mean I am like a inside person, I love my moments of aloness because I feel like I can think more, but when you are alone for so long, its kinda sad. It was ok though because one day I went to this Lake that the pope resides at during summer with two friends, and then Sunday I went to Tivoli by myself just to check it out. I must say, I really like getting out of the city, I can see why most people in NYC have a summer home, somtimes its just to much, its unexplainable, but its just nice to get away.

However, on Monday I left for Sorento off of the Amalfi coast. Now, if there is one thing in your life that you need to do, it is to go to the Amalfi coast. Well, ok, it pretty much looks just like Palos Verdes, but that doesn't make up for the fact that the people there are soooo nice and it was just soooo amazing for me to be on somthing that looked and smelt like home. But at the same time it was diffrent, it was just so beautiful. Must suck though during the summer with all the tourists, because it would be really awsome to go there and for it to be like it was for me, just 15 degrees warmer and it would be so nice! But during the summer, there would just be to many peoplee. Anyways, I am going there for part of my honeymoon, btw, whenever that will be. (/Barcelona, Nice, and the Canery Islands.)

OK! then to the part where I wasn't by myself.

Naples:

hahahaha, o man that was a shocker. I mean like I had herd from friends like, o yeah Naples isn't safe, just get pizza in Naples, Naples is so dirty blah blah blah. but for me I am one of those in through the ear out the other because I always like to think it can't be THAT bad. haha oooo it is, I mean ok it really is just very dirty and there are like a lot of homless people and when I was there at first, for like a couple of hours it was cold and like Italian men were being Italian Napolian men and didn't stop staring/honking so I was a little tense. HOWEVER, once Kelsey came and we met up with our couchsurfing friend, things were a lot better. Him and his friend took us all around Naples in their car we went on this wonderful drive down this hill that just showed off all of the coast and I just swore I was in California. I mean, ok, I know I am in Italy blah blah blah, but I can't help but miss California. It's just so weird how Italy is like my place of residence, but it isn't my home. How attached we can get to home. Well anyways, we turned in early because we were both just soooo tired.
The next day was suppose to be our "sight seeing day" but I mean it was just like a lot of buildings and monuments that we have seen allready, I know it sounds bad but I don't really regret not walking around for hours and hours. Instead me and Kelsey went to a grocery store, bought stuff for lunch and just sat at a park in the GLORIOUS sun and just talked and then we talked some more about life and how scary it is and how in high school everything seemed so much easier than what it was. Then we got into how in high school we were both so driven! I mean with school yes, but with our passions, we felt more alive in high school then we do now and neither of us really understood that, we thought it was because we were boyfriendless and lonely. But it really isn't, its because we lack that passion in our life not the passion from a boy but from doing stuff!!! I mean, sure I can work and go to school and hang out with friends and be totaly busy, but thats not enough. I need to feel the acomplishment from rehersal again, I need to sweat my ass of and then put it all out there and feel the rush of endorpahins that is so natural and not from drugs or alcahol. I mean I know I can get satisfaction from learning about diffrent cultures and teaching at a school and just living an ordinary life, but I wont be happy. I will feel like I didn't take any risks and I played my life safe, which I know is what I should do. But I can't, I mean yes it could turn out bad, but at least I know I tried, right? Because it could also be really really good. I know that I should get a bussniess degree and make lots of money, in fact I want lots of money a lot of the time because I feel like that will make me happy. But I know it wont. I know that after I buy that dress or that skirt, I will only be happy for a little bit. I want the real life happiness and passion that I just don't know how to obtain right now with the path that I have chosen. So I am going back to my roots, to when I was at least ok, when I had a passion and a life and then I will see from there.

Anyways, sorry that turned into more of a life rant than I really needed it to be, this whole year has been like that. But I felt like I needed to share because that was what happened in Naples.

Then we went to Lipiri. OMG was that not one of the most amazing places EVER!!! So me and Kelsey took the night train from Naples to Lipiri, I was really suprised at how well I slept, but it worked out. We arrived to Lipri at like 8 in the morning and once we got there we were just to excited to sleep. We stayed in a hotel room that during the summer would cost 400, we stayed for 60!!! and it was sooo worth it. We rented like this mini car thing and just drove it all over the island, like it was so much fun. We stood on this cliff that I seriously thought I was standing at the gates of heaven it was so magestic and so real. It was just so rejuvinating and totaly worth it! and we climbed down the cliff to the beach through lush greenary and I repeat again, it was just soooooo worth it. haha and then by like 5 we were tired, so we went back to the hotel, made dinner and we were alseep by 8.
Next morning we spent our day lying in the sun at the black beach on the island vulcano. We wanted to go into the hot springs, but since we had to check out of the hotel we didnt really have a place to wash off afterwards and we wernt in the mood for smelling like sulfar the rest of the day. So we just layed in the sun. again. just layed in the sun.

Then we went to Palermo. I really like this city, it had such a cooler vibe than Rome, Rome is just so stuck up and blah. Palermo had like vibes and a culture. Except for like the 42493284932 teenages that seemed to RULE the city. Me and Kelsey were walking through and were like seriously... are we in high school again. AND everyone was paired off and had no shame in showing there love for each other in front of all the other miserable singles. haha it was really funny though. What a fun city to live in when you are like 15. BUT as a 19 year old, it was also really amazing. I mean we went to this club and it was hot and sweaty like an island and there was just this really awsome latin vibe. Haha the guy that drove us around that night, well we were in his convertable somthing really expensive and Italian car and like he told me about how his mom is nobility and his dad is the cheif of the hospital, so this guy is loaded. He however did not buy us one drink, how lame. But its all good because he drove us around and he was sooo nice. Untill the end. Well since we had like a 9 oclock flight we just kinda decided to stay up all night, which worked out well (enough). Umm so he was waiting with us at the train station and like ok he was a really nice guy, but at the club I got these huge vibes that he was gay, I just thought he was gay whatever. wellll

So haha we are waiting and then he goes on this rant about how all the americans he knows are fat and like how Italians are so fit (ask me to do the accent and motion when I get home). And so me and my two friends, who are american as well, are just kinda flabber ghasted, I mean we started speaking really fast about how he just called us fat. and he was just like what what, whats wrong. It was just really insulting, I mean I just didn't know what to say. And THEN he starts asking me about the pants and the shoes that I was wearing asking if that was "fashionable" in the states and went on some dumb rant about how much better Italian crap is. Except he said addaias was an Italian brand, when it is in fact a german brand. So at this point we are just like on our last wind to stay awake so we are all giggly and just like can't beilve this is happening. and THEN he goes on to talk about how Italians make love at like 13 blah blah blah and how its weird that most americans wait untill they are 17 or 18. so he then called us unpassionate.

HAHA so Then he comes up to me and says, like I think that you are really beautiful and curvy and I love red heads and blue eyes, so pretty blah blah blah, and in Italy I kiss you because I like you. CRAP! I was just like, you called me fat, unfashiobale, unpassionate and now you want to kiss me!!!!!!!!!! O man me and Kelsey went on for like 2 hours about how sick we are of these Italian men!

Well anyways we came back home and overall it was a very amazing trip. I really cant wait for next month. This month will just suck, I have 3 10 page pappers to write and just crap to do. and no money. so I wont be going anywhere. But its ok because the 3 week trip I have is going to be AMAZING!

I am going to
Greece (Steph if I could get Jims e-mail that would be really nice)
to the
UK
to
France
to
Brussels
to
HOME!

:)

can't waaaait