michellemo

The first few days in Italy we had a lot of orientation stuff with API but it was alot of fun. We stayed at Hotel Bagoilini in Florence and had a nice dinner on the rooftop of the hotel.
Here are a few pictures of where we had our dinner. I had ziti with pesto and didn't really like it but i was too jet lagged to really feel hungry. It was a really nice dinner though.

In our hotel the first night our room had the awesome green shudder windows that opened up and i was really excited to open them up so i made Courtney take a photoshoot of me opening up my first window in italy! haha
Here are the pictures of me opening up the window :)
(yes I know I am a loser)

The day after our first day in Florence we went on a tour of Florence with API. It was nice to see around but we couldnt really hear our tour guide so I just walked around and took pictures of the sites that we saw. Here are a few pictures that I took on the tour of churches, vespas, the Arno River/ Ponte Vechio, and the Uffitzi museum area

After our tour we hung out with some kids in our program with API. We walked around and got our first gelato of Florence and had some lunch at a small Italian Restaurant. I got pasta with regular sauce and it was pretty good. Here is a picture of me and courtney with some of our friends that we made during the first night in Florence. Two of the girls we hung out with were from Stonehill. I thought it was funny that we were in a foreign country looking to find friends from different places and ended up hanging out with Stonehill kids.

These first few days were extremely busy/tiring but it was really exciting to be in Italy. The most tiring day was the third day when we moved into our apartments. Unfortunately we were on the third floor so I had to carry two of my heavy bags up to our apartment. Though our apartment is really nice.(Me and Courtney lucked out and got the biggest bedroom) We flipped a coin with our roommates and lucked out and got it which was nice. Later that night we hung out and went out to eat with our roommates which was nice to bond with him. Here are a few pictures of me and courtneys room and that night that we went out.