Firenze and Venezia

Ciao! The Ponte Vecchio in Florence was picturesque, especially from the top of the piazzale michelangelo, but not as impressive as Michelangelos famous Davids perfect body! I met tons of new friends, mostly Aussie, at the hostel and we saw the superbowl at an irish pub with tons of other american study abroad kids and i spend the whole first half explaining them how they game is played, it was awful. needless to say we left after halftime because we were all bored.

I decided to go to Venice and it was amazying! Unlike anything you could imagine. The gondolas and the vaporetti get everyone and everything around like clockwork. The beautiful Basilica of Saint Mark has gold tiles and wonderful mosaics, similar to the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, but better.

I arrived in Torino this evening and I just missed the Olympic Torch, but hopefully will see it enter the stadium tomorrow at the Opening Ceremonies (from the outside). We found some cheap one star hotel for 50 euro a night!! We met some people in the press and we are going to go to some practices for cheap and maybe an event or two.

Ciao!

Miss you all!

Katie