Traveling to Italy!

BLOG DAY 1

Sorry about this first blog but I am super jetlagged and exhausted after a full day of traveling and over 24 hours of being awake. This first blog is going to be really disjointed and horribly written.

Met the girls at Dulles around 2, checked in and went to our gate, met a few other people from our program. Everyone seems really nice and interesting.

7 hour flight to Paris wasn’t that bad. Plane and seats were really comfortable and high tech! TVs in the back of the headrests made the flight go by quickly. I watched Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist which I really liked!

Got to Paris for our layover. We were exhausted so all 12 of us girls in the program crashed, some of us sleeping on the floor. Then our plane was delayed so our 4 hour layover turned into over 5. The ground was cold and hard so sleep didn’t really happen.

On the Paris to Genoa flight, we all slept but woke up as we were landing. Genoa is GORGEOUS from the air!!! Starts at the water line and climbs up into the mountains. White buildings with some splashes of color. Amazing view of the harbor and mountains.

Landed and met up with our awesomely crazy professor, Stefania Amodeo. She is hilarious and a complete nut! She kept saying “OH MAMA MIA!!!” about all of our bags. She is going to be a total Italian mother on this trip but that is great! She seems to be full of energy, good advice, and crazy Italian phrases.
We took TWO city buses from the airport to our hotel. The Italians apparently do NOT appreciate big bags blocking their way on the buses so we got a lot of dirty looks and Italian grumblings.

We got to our hotel and checked in. Kel, Ash and I are apparently in the biggest and best room... and it is only like 2/3s the size of a normal American hotel room. But it is nice and clean and I think we will be just fine in this room. Only negative thing is that all 3 of us are sick in different ways so 2 of us sharing one big bed might be bad.

With no time to eat or unpack or nap or even sit down, we all headed out and went on a 2-3 hour walking tour of the area. We were all dead on our feet and hungry but resturants close from 2ish-7ish! We got gelato which was amazing but not exactly a real meal. After the walking tour, we had an hour in our room so me and Ash each skyped our parents and I unpacked some.

Then we went to this little Pizzareria down the street. We didn’t get pizza but ate off of a buffet. It was nice to eat some pasta (aka my comfort food!)

Now, I am just writing this and then crashing :-)

Stay tuned for more from the BEAUTIFUL Italia! :-D