RIP COMPUTER

Friday evening, like I mentioned in the last post, I went to Asia's class festa. A festa here is like an end of the year celebration. The parents, students, and teachers of that class all get together and go out to eat. The kids play, the adults socialize, and in this case.. the Americans sit there and play games on their Blackberry that doesn't have service. haha. We went to a fairly nice restaurant and had Digelli again. It makes sense due to this being an extremely easy meal to make for large groups. My host father also ordered us a bottle of Lambrusco, which is the wine that the region Carpi is in is known for. If any of you remember in my first post I mentioned how my first night here my host parents had a family over for dinner.. well the son of that couple is in Asia's class so they were there and the mother spoke English so I was able to talk to her some. It was nice. We got home around 1030, and I packed and prepared for Florence before going to sleep.

Saturday morning I woke up and got ready to leave for the train station. I shut down my computer thinknig it would not need to be on for the duration of the traveling, then shortly after realized I needed to get something off of it. Well... that didn't work out because my monitor no longer works. The computer itself still turns on and makes all of the noises, etc. but the monitor is completely blacked out. I talked to a girl on the trip with me named Christina who said she had the exact same thing happen to her last year. Apparently it was something with her switch board, which is why my computer has been BURNING UP hot all the time even if I'm not using it. So I'm without a computer for the rest of the trip. Thankfully there are computers I will be able to use.

Anyway, yesterday we came to Florence. We went to the Uffizi museum and got to see a ton of awesome/famous art. Then we came back to the hotel and hung out for a while. Last night we got ready and then went out for dinner. I had spinach and ricotta ravioli. It was really good. After dinner I was tired so I came back to the hostel.

This morning we got up bright and early and went to our Accidental Tours. When we first got there we did a wine tasting. I bought my mom and dad Olive Oil and Wine. Then we walked around took pictures. After that we drove to another location and went out on our hike. We hiked for 3 miles. Hideous and hot. Then we went back and met the girls who had done the cooking class. They had made pasta so we had that and a vegetable quich among other things for lunch. It was delicious. After that Natalie, Tori, Amy, and I took a cab back to the hostel. We brought all of the wine/oil that other people had bought but didn't want to carry when they went out to do other things.

Tomorrow we will be shopping and going back to Carpi for our final 2 days.
Until next time I get internet, Ciao!!