FIRST DAY IN FIRENZE

MY ROOM

Im alive! Ive made it to Firenze! I arrived yesterday, Januray 3, around 1:00pm and took a small taxi with another Gonzaga student to my hotel. Unbelievable location, 2 blocks from the duomo. It was beautiful and sunny here yesterday but when I woke up this morning (after 17.5 hours of sleep) it was very cold and snowy. My room is very modest, but everything a student would need.

THE DUOMO'S NATIVITY

I have breakfast served at 8am, lunch at 1pm, and dinner served at 7pm most days of the week. I awoke around 8:30 because one of my roommates who has been here for the full year was taking a trip to Istanbul, Turkey and had to pack for her trip. After an early breakfast, the girl whom I had shared a taxi cab with came over to my pensione and we decided to walk around Florence. We first ventured over to the Duomo which was even more beautiful than I had remembered. The inside was decoreated with metal trees that peel outward to hold candles. All of these fixtures centered around a wooden carving of the Nativity.

THE PONTE VECCHIO

We also visited the uffizi and the ponte vecchio. I also encountered my first pair of italian creepers and proudly told them to I was not interested and did not wish to be bothered. haha, so proud of myself. I adore the ponte vecchio and I can;t wait for the weather to get nicer so that I can do my homework there! The city is wildly beautiful, I can already tell that part of me could live here forever .