wow. this is going to be a long one, since i haven´t updated since rome and we´ve been everywhere since then.
well hola from Barcelona! but before we go into the craziness that is my night last night we need to back track quite a few countries. so much has happened and i can´t believe my trip with EF is beginning to wind down, it has gone by sooo fast I can´t believe last week at this time i was in Venice.
so after Rome we drove to Assissi, which is a tiny little town on a hill, we had to stop at this reepy pottery making place where they make and hand paint pottery and sell wine, liquor, chocolate and pretty much anything, but it was a scary warehouse and EF has some contract with the and we need to stop there to get a bus pass to go up to Assissi. the city is also very strict and our tour director was not aloud to direct us and give us a guided tour otherwise he could have gone to jail. so we pretty much had free time, and we were sooo tired we just went to a cafe and sat there for two hours and had lunch. Nathan and i got really excited because we saw this GIANT bagel sandwhich and we both ordered it with turkey, lettuce and tomatoe, when it showed up it didn´t look like a bagel sandwhich, and we should have known, it was ham and chesse on a baguette…surprise surprise.
we walked around and they ditched me when i tried to buy a water and i got lost and almost missed the bus! we still had another 2 hours on the damn bus and we finally got to florence. Sean sat next to me on the bus ride, it was nice to talk to someone else. like most people i talk to about music tried to turn sean onto Jason Mraz, but he already knew about him!! i was so excited. but i did find out sean has a friend in seattle he is planning on visiting in a few months so we are hopefully oging to hang out and catch up!
Anyway we arrived in florecne to our crappy hotel with a lift big enought for 1/2 a person , the lobby was on the 3rd floor, which in Europe means the 5th floor. we are starting to learn when someone says it takes 20 minuts to walk somewhere it really takes 40 minutes- it´s a European 20 minute walk, not an american. anyway back to this crazy lift in florence. I got off the bus last and waited outside on the sidewalk for close to an hour to get all 44 of us up and it was hot with nasty garbage cans text to us, it was not a special experience.
Once I got up to my room, my roommates had been there for 45 minutes already and i once again was shafted with the bed next to the door. i jumped in the shower because i thought i was going on the walking tour with the group, when yanel came down and said she and nathan were taking a nap and skipping the tour. that sounded good to me, so we ran down to tell leslie and kellie, who went anyway. on the way bak up i ran into kim, jenna, brandon, and mallory who were going to find jenna´s favorite kebab place, so i said what the hell an went along for the walk. this turned into a 3 and a half hour adventure and i felt so bad since i hadn´t left nathan and yanel a note.
i ended up getting back at the same time as leslie and kellie and we went to get wine and sit by the river for a girls nights, and we ran into yanel on the way so we´re having a great time talking and laughing when 3 italians walk by and say ¨cheers¨so we do it back, well one went farther down the bridge and sat and was staring at us the whole time these other two guys were attempting to talk to us. the other two came over to ¨try¨to talk to us. but they were really creepy. we kept trying to ignore thema nd then kellie would start to talk to them and one kept making creepy cat calls at me and was asking us for our names. when we wouldn´t tell them they made them up instead, my new going out name is Lillian, kellie was barbra, leslie was christina and yanel was merve- i thought he said margaret, but merve was so funny so we still call her merve. so these have become our names we say when we go out!
we proceed to drink a bottle of wine each, while kellie chugged hers. the guys started to get mad that we weren´t talking to them and flat out ignoring tem and they starting mocking us. so i grabbed my swiss army knife out of my purse and had it in my hand and i got in the guys face and told him to leave, it was starting to piss me off. they left finally, so as kelli e was getting pretty drunk she began to dance and entertain us all until 3 am. she got sick and vomitted all over my leg, which was sick, yet sooo funny. so we took her back to the hotel and on the way she fellin the street, hit on more italian men and begged for more wine! it was an advenutre in itselt trying to get her to stay in her room.
the next morning we awere all tired and decided to skip the walking tour in the morning and sleep ing! it was the best decision , at 11 i woke up and went to leslie and kellies room to relive last night and it started pouring down rain! it was crazy so we got ready and woke up nathan and yanel and went to lucnch across the street at around 1 pm. we showed nathan the crazy videos of kelli efrom the night before and he couldn´t stop laughing!
after lunch kellie, yanel, nthan and i decided to walk into the town center to spend money and that is what i did, i spend a lot of money. we went to the duomo, which i remembered it being in germany! haha shows how much i remembered from our trip in the 7th grade, we found an amazing gellato place it was my 3rd time going tohere. but i bought 2 purses and a bunch of tshirts and gifts for friends! we walked around for abouth 3 1/2 hours when we ran into sarah, christinia and lauren and they recommended we go to this great, not too expensive 5 course italian dinner, so we thought it would be fun to dress up and have a nice last dinner in italy.
we headed home to find a laundrymat, and searched for a half hour and we finally found one. we rushed home to get ready for our 945 reservation, dinner was good, but not as filling as what everyone had told us, because it was sample sizes. anyway we ordered a bottle of the house red and white. we turned nathaan on to white wine! they were both great wines, i probably drank about six glasses because leslie kept filling up my glass. we ended up ordering a 3rd bottle at the table and then 3 bottles to go!
after dinner we headed to the Duomo, the group had met there earlier to drink, so we headed that wasy and sat on the stops to drink. on the way we met two guys from ARgentina who were very nice. nathan, yanel and leslie started talking to them in spanich about where we´d been adn where we were going. we were on our way to nice in the morning and they told nathan the water there was as blue as my eyes! haha gotta love the guys in europe. we finally made it to the duomo, yanel started talking to a man from pakistan who kept calling me a ¨beautiful giant¨and egyptian man named mimo, who sat and asked natha nd i for a lite, and was speaking in a thick accent so nathan kept translating how he felt drawnt o me and wanted to talk to me about life. i don´t know what it was about me that night, thank god thanat was next to me though, i kept grabbing his knee when i got uncomfortable and he would come in and save me from the conversation. then a guy from ugoslavia sat down next to yanel and i called nate really fast to get myself out of an awkward situation, the next thing i know nathan is in my face yelling at me cuz i walked away and no one knew where i was.
when i got back to the steps the man from ugoslavia kept asking me to sit and take a nap on his last and that was not happening. then around the corner come jenna, kim, sarah and alena they´d just been at bar drinking, and it was sarah and alenas 1st bar! so sarah is drunk and stephanie starts talking to this very attractive guy from ukrane who looks like a model, and the next thing i know he kisses her, he kisses jenna, kisses me and says ¨damn she really is hot!¨, and then kisses sarah!!! it was so funny, it was sarahs first kiss too!
it was a great night. at 3 am we decide we should start walking home. nathan and i are basically holding eachother up for the half hour walk home. once we get back nathan and i decided to go sit by the river and we were out there until about 5am. when we contemplated waiting and watching the sunrise, but we had to get up at seven to pack and get on the bus so it was a great night, probably my favorite so far. the next morning was brutal, especially since the elevator broke halfway through getting us all down, so i had to carry my bag down 5 flights of stairs. we drove tto pisa took some picture and left for nice! such a beautiful city, got got there and it was Bastile day, which is the frenches version of the 4th of july.
we all jumped on a city but and over packed it with college kids, the locals were kinda pissed. and we went to town to watch the fireworks. which we ended up missing. so we sat on the boardwalk for a half hour 
and people watched.
the next morning kellie leslie and i got up at 10 and headed to the beach. the rocky beach. kellie and i ended up staying down there from 11 am til 5 pm when yanel and nathan showed up and we went to get dinner. i got soooo dark i love it!! we went back to the beach after dinner and nathan fell in the water it was great. we headed back ordered a pizza and hung out in the room, leslie yanel and i ended up staying up til 4 am talking, then i made phone calls til 5. i havent gotten much sleep you could day.
anywaywe stayed in provence on our way to barcelona it was a nice hotel, i finally sewed on all my patches and i now look like a world traveler!
we got to bareclona and we are staying in such a nice hotel i feel like a queen!! we even have two showers! we got dressed up and went to a flamenco show last night from 11-1 it was awesome one of my favorite things we´ve done so far. then we went to a bar grabbed a drink and headed to a club.
the club was being dumb an not letting some of the guys in with flip flops on, so nathan got in a ian was right behind him, so i was hanging on ians shoulder telling the bar tended what a stud he was, and how he was goign to buy so many drinks, and they let him in!! i worked my magic, so ian bought me a drink and i hung out wtih him and sean for a while. 
nathan and i were laughing at all the old people in the club, and they wouldn´t even let college kids in! we sat out side and talked for a while, and headed to the beach at 4, we sat there til about 530 am and headed home around6! we slept all day and had to take leslie to a clinic for her ear infection.
now we have a pub crawl tonight!!! damn i need some sleep! but thats all for now!
sorry its sooo long only a few days left!
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