Day 11

        Starting tomorrow, my blogs should be a lot more interesting. These past few days have been busy with work and not much exploring of Florence. Today Italian class flew by. We started learning action verbs and are beginning to be able to form sentences. I am not too good and Italian, but it is slowly coming together. After class I met with the girls I am traveling with after the program. Today we went to a restaurant with Wi-Fi to try and book all of our travel plans. The restaurant its self was very americanized. I believe it is also a club, where in particularly the Jersey Shore cast spent a lot of time at while they were in Florence. One of their sandwiches on the menu was named “The Situation”… like the guy in Jersey Shore. I thought it was weird too. I ended up ordering a tuna sandwich wrapped in a salted crepe. It was interesting, but I am not sure that I would order it again. Later in the afternoon, we had another site visit. This visit was to the medical school at the University of Florence. A professor at the university talked to us about the differences in the Italian healthcare system versus the United States healthcare system. Most of the information given in the lecture was information we had heard in a lecture we heard before leaving for Italy. Therefore, it was really difficult to pay attention. We all did make it through and even came up with great questions to ask the professor at the end. Overall, it was cool to get to sit in on a lecture in a foreign university and compare the differences more or less, even though it was given in English.

        Probably the best news of the day is that I got a new camera! My camera that sat in a pool of water in a backpack for a couple hours on Saturday is completely gone. It was a sad loss, but I’m not going to let it ruin my trip, because there are too many great thing to see and experience over the next couple weeks! I almost forgot! Tonight diner was amazing! Right up my alley! We started with risotto, which I fully enjoyed and then we had mozzarella and tomatoes with olive oil and seasoning. It sounds so simple, but it was delicious and fresh! Needless to say, because of it I am in a great mood! I have a quiz in Italian and a presentation in my leadership class coming up on Thursday, so I have to get back to my studies. Ciao!