or florence, as us americans call it. so after 3 nights in rome and 3 nights here, we are leaving florence for venice in a few hours. i hope i don't fall in the water and get all of my shit wet. !!
so, the trip is getting better. partly because i'm not hanging out with certain annoying people. fyi, we have a group of 8, and i have found that the number gets a little bit unwieldy sometimes. so, in the past two days, i've hung out with a group no larger than 3, and that seems to be better for me.
so rome isn't all that. it's packed with tourists, and yeah, there's a lot of history, but whatever. florence is a nice quaint city, and yesterday we spent the day at siena, this even smaller city that was pretty cool. sorry, if i don't know enough about these places to make it sound interesting.
let's see... i guess i will say that the problem with some people that i'm travelling with is that they're fobs. not that being a fob is annoying in and of itself, but their whole mannerisms and stuff are things that i just don't connect with. like, quite often, the girls will just bust out in cantonese, which i don't understand, and that annoys me. why not just speak english?
my tics are a little better now. perhaps being away from the office is doing me some real good. although, i haven't been sleeping much or sleeping very well. like last night, every 30 seconds or so, i'd get these little panic attacks in bed, which would make me toss and turn for a bit to get rid of my ants in the pants feeling.
last night, i had a good dinner all by myself. (i find that the moments i have to myself have been the best). i had an eggplant pizza (parmigiana, as they call it) and coke while sitting in my hotel room and watching the olympics on tv. it was blissful.
but i have to reiterate, i am homesick. i know i would eventually regret it, but i wouldn't mind going home right now. anyways...
i am sort of worried about spain. one, i think i'll be dead tired to do stuff, and two, the group of 8 dwindles down to 5, and that means less buffer zones between me and the annoying people.
i haven't bought anything here yet as a souvenir. i don't really care for buying anything for myself, but i think i should get something for my roommates. but there hasn't been anything good to buy, except for these little bronze statues of a wolf with eight nipples feeding two human babies. (i think the real one is somewhere in rome.) kind of weird, if you ask me, and kind of funny, too.
i haven't shaved in quite a few days. we only have on power converter, and the girls are hogging it. (another reason to be annoyed at them) i have cheek hairs sprouting out left and right! arrgh! and no, i did not pack tweezers.
and yes, my feet still smell.
i've only had gelato once here. but it was good. nocciola (hazelnut) rocks!
man, i'm tired.
anyways, someone mentioned something about italian women being hot. i haven't seen that many *hot* women, but while in rome, near the spanish steps, i did spy one girl who had really nice tan skin (not overburnt) and a good set of breasts. the thing was, though, she must have been like 15 or so. so i felt a bit dirty trying to look down her shirt. (but i did anyway, hehe)
ok, off to venice!