So much to tell!!!

I'm verrry bad about this blogging thing. First of all due to the fact that getting on the internet is a pain in the buns. Secondly because by the time I write it all in my diary and tell Levi all about it, I feel really repetitive by the time I share it with the world wide web. With that said, THIS is everything I have done since Rome. Last weekend we went to Assisi to see the Church of San Francesco. It was pretty much the most amazing thing I have ever seen. I'm pretty bummed that taking pictures was forbidden, but I feel like maybe its better because there is no way pictures could have done it any justice. Google it... After seeing the church, we hiked to the top of this hill to this old castle. Exploring the castle was pretty fun. I went up into a watch tower and then on my way back down, I noticed that the stair case also went down a little further into a corridor. So I took that staircase down and started walking down the corridor. It was really narrow, really short, and really long. I didn't have any idea where I was going, and then I came upon another staircase that went up. After what felt like a thousand stairs I found myself on the top of the tallest watch tower. I just sat up there all by my lonesome and took in the view. From there, I could see the Appenines covered in snow, the Church of San Francesco, and all the little towns below. After sharing a bedroom for 3 weeks, and not having any place to call your own or be alone, sitting up on the watch tower by myself was the most refreshing feeling I could possibly imagine. Eventually I went back down the staircase, down the long corridor, and reunited with civilization. After that, it was back on the bus to Orvieto, home. The next day, a group of us girls decided to go to Florence for the Chocolate festival. To get there, we walked from the train station along the Arno River, past Ponte Vecchio, through over crowded streets, aaaannd..... Sadly to say, the chocolate festival wasn't quite what we expected, but we got to see some angry villagers protesting the Italian President. Apparently, they weren't too keen on his extracurricular 'affairs.' The signs displaying "Italy is not a brothel!" indicated that... After the delicious, but somewhat disappointing chocolate festival, we walked down the main road to the Duomo. Wow, is pretty much the only word that can be used to describe it. It's absolutely amazing, huge, breath taking, overwhelming.... you name it. Then we just walked around, and eventually made our way back to the train station. Today we took a little local field trip to some smaller town around the Orvieto area, going to towns like Civita di Bagnoregio. Very small, but an amazing view. Google it... And yes, that little bridge only allows pedestrians. The walk sucked. But very worth it. Anyway, I'm out! Off to Florence tomorrow for an official school field trip, and then with friends Saturday.... to Pisa! xoxo