sorry it's so late!

well...my apologies for not writing earlier friends!!!

Italy is amazing! I'm am loving it! making so many friends and learning the language. well i'd catch you up on what has happen so far but it's been a long week. so i'll give you a short version.

Gelato is my new best friend. we've been going to get some almost everyday...haha. I finished my first week of school, which was amazing. i'm soooo excited about learning the language. lauren(my roommate) and i have been going downtown lots, including last night which could have been bad. you see, to go downtown we have to take a bus. and it's one thing to buy a bus ticket, but when you get on you have to validate the ticket. lots of people don't validate their ticket and ride for free...unless somebody is on there checking to see if your ticket is validated. if that's the case then you're in trouble. you get fined 45 euros. ugh! so last night a group of us were on the bus and did validate our tickets cause we were all talking and visiting. (and to be honest we don't validate them very often.) so we were all talking when all of a sudden this guy out of nowhere comes and asks to see our tickets. we all paniced and tried to come up with something. haha....so pretty soon people on the other side of the bus heard he was checking tickets. as you can imagine they all freaked out. haha...(nobody validates their tickets.) so the bus was just making a stop at that time...so we ran for it and barely escaped!!! haha...i was freaking out! but that was the big excitement for the night.

today we went to cinque terre.....AMAZING!!! google it! Cinque terre means 5 villages. these 5 villages are all along the coast of the north west part of italy. all of the buildings are painted bright colors and it looks beautiful! there are gorgeous vineyards all of as well. you'll have to look at it. but we got off a train at these little villages and got to walk around and see the beach. it was great! not too many crazy things happened so i'm sorry i don't have more to write. tomorrow school should be long. but hopefully i'll get better at the language!

alright well i should get some sleep.
buonanotte!