unpacked finally...

Im in Florence! (sorry if this email is lacking punctuation...this keyboard is really messed up). We arrived on a rainy day, which always gives you a bad first impression - but the city soon redeemed itself. The flat im sharing with Tara Lynn and two other girls is absolutely gorgeous! Hardwood floors, chandeliers all over the place, tapestries and paintings and large mirrors. Definitely posesses old world charm. The windows are my favorite- theyre huge and looking out on the street with shutters and no screens so you can just hang out the windows and look out on the people. Our neighbourhood is really fancy - two seconds on the door and youre seeing the Louis Vitton store, Gucci store, Dolce and Gabanna and Fendi...wow...not that I could ever afford that stuff (and some of it is just plain odd) but ya just shows that we are in a very nice neighbourhood.
We went on a bootcamp style hike up to a lookout yesterday to paint. It looked out on the Duomo and everything..beautiful...almost worth walking up enough stairs to climb the CN tower like three times over.
We went grocery shopping yesterday, the food in the grocery stores is so much better in quality, a bit more expensive though. It felt so nice to just make our own food though instead of having to eat out all the time - if i dont have pasta for a little while I wont be complaining. Im definitely hooked on cappuchinos though so i get one every morning almost.
Thats it for now though....miss you all

Alissa