Carnivale

Ciao Everyone! Welcome back to Venice! Amazing! So heres the story. For Carnival (a festival for eating drinking and being merry before Lent) Rotary brought us all to Venice! The most famous place for Carnival. (But other places in Italy have really cool celebrations as well). We were there for an entire day! Unfortunatly it was the day before the real festivities started so it wasnt as crazy as it could have been. But still an awesome day. We first stopped at a mask shop. Where they make and paint masks by hand. Absolutely beautiful! I got the mask im wearing in the photo and wore it the rest of the day! Fantastic! I know! Now I mentioned that I had the plan to dress up for Carnival. Unfortunatly the weather was a bit ugly so we couldnt bring the costumes. I was very sad (The costumes werent ours we were borowing them) So I didnt actually get to dress up. But more happened! For lunch we went to a simple typical Venice bar/resturant and had spaghetti. Normal right? No. The spaghetti was surved with octopus and a generous amount of octopus ink... Which I didnt know you could eat... It was actually really good and we ended up having a mini contest about who could get the blackest lips. So fun. (oh I won!) After that we went to Piazo San Marco where we were set free and told to meet back at the train station at 6:45. Surprisingly we all made it on time! That was Carnivale a Venezia! STRABELLA! Oh and I made this video for you all... unfortunatly... we're all a bunch of goof balls. So please ignor the comment about dead bodies... thanks

Oups!

Ciao Everyone!

I havent writen in forever! I'm sorry! All of a sudden I've been really buisy! (horrible excuse I know)

So again still having camera difficulties so I'll only be writing today

But I do have some interesting news! All of a sudden my life here has changed dramaticaly.

Sure I was always enjoying myself here and seeing amazing things and meeting crazy cool people but I always felt like a torist...on the outside.

But now... Now I feel like I'm part of it. With my friends I'm not just that American Girl who sometimes comes along with them. Now its like im really one of the group. And the language. Its just so easy! And!!!! Oh I really dont know how to explain it but things just seem to ... click?

Any way. A fun story

This past weekend I went with my families to the montains between Lecco and Como. BEAUTIFUL! (who brought her camera and left the battery at home??? yes me)But it was so beautiful! we hiked a bit in the mountains, then ate realy really really really yummy mountain food (yummy! but soooo filling) Then went to the point where the lake of lecco and the lake of Como split.

For those who dont know there is a giant upsid down shaped lake. One arm is Lecco, the other is Como!

It was absolutely beautiful!



Thats it for now. This weekend is Carnivale in Venezia! (Carnival in Venise!) I'm going with Rotary and maybe dressing up too! I cant wait I'm bouncing off the walls with excitment!

Miss you all and hope you are all doing GREAT!

Oh! And Happy Groundhogs Day!