Here I am.

Well...Here I am. Florence, Italy.
The past few days have been crazy...between packing, rushing to the airport, saying 'see ya later' (never goodbye ;) ) to everyone and then traveling through different airports & timezones.

Had a four hour layover at JFK but that wasn't terrible because it allowed me to make friends. We left on a huge plan at night and I slept for most of it. My seat mate and I went through my Dirty Italian book (Thanks Ash & Liz) to 'learn some Italian'. Even with some sleep though I still feel jet lagged and am really sick of carrying luggage around. All in all it really wasn't a bad trip at all.

I am currently laying on my bed in the hotel. We'll be staying in the hotel for two nights. Thursday morning  we are introduced to our host family. I'm really looking forward to getting settled in so I don't feel so jumbled. After we arrived at the hotel we took a walking tour. A grad student walked us around and pointed out bars, restaurants, pharmacies, where to get a cell phone, etc. We also got gelato (AMAZING).

OH & also, I'm paying for the internet right now...almost forgot. I remembered because my hour runs out soon...4 euros for an hour at this hotel. Not too bad when you have no other form of communication to family & friends.  I will have full term internet access by the weekend so hit me up!

Have to go for now, internet hour is running out...

<3Alex