Important note from yesterday: I wore jeans to class. Unfortunately I have no picture evidence of this, but I promise its true. Im growing up so much.

Getting out of bed today was extremely difficult (kind of like when my parents would have to literally drag me out of bed for high school), the lack of sleep is starting to catch up with me, but I had to go to school for my first Italian quiz (not that I would ever skip class). The Italian quiz was probably the easiest thing Ive ever taken, probably even easier than my Advocates for Children quizzes at UMD (fyi: my friends and I essentially would take these quizzes together, hi Kristen!). After class, Miriam and I went for lunch (I got salad, my body was so happy to have something non-carb related, and we split a cheese platter...YUMMY!!!)

(yes, this meal was as good as it looks) Then we went back to school to use the slightly-better-than-the-hotel internet (which really means, it sucked). Miriam and I completed our afternoon adventures by going to by aprons, yes, aprons. They are personalized and say things in Italian (la regina della cucina, queen of the kitchen). Do not make fun of us; they are really cool, and were really cheap. Fun fact Miriam picked up on: Regina means queen and in Mean Girls the queen bee is named Regina, yay for knowing Italian! Well, we thought our adventures were over, buuuut not so much. Due to my mother being really talented at Jewish-guilting me (yes, I just made up that verb) about not going on an art history tour of Siena, Miriam and I stopped at the Siena Duomo ourselves on the way back to the hotel. Well, Miriam went to take her camera out and it wasn't there, luckily it was at the restaurant where we had lunch and the guy handed it back to us with a smirk on his face that made us think he looked through the pictures, but whatever, Miriam got her camera back. So basically, thanks for the Jewish guilt mommy. Well, I was exhausted from our adventurous afternoon, so I took a nap and then did my homework (I am such a good studentessa!) before dinner. Miriam and I went to dinner with our friends Stacey and Joanna who go to Clemson, and they are great! We went to this adorable little ristorante near our school, and the waitress was great because she patiently explained things to us in Italian. It is so nice when Italians don't automatically switch to English but gives us a chance to practice using the language. Dinner was delicious, I just had some spaghetti with olive oil, garlic, and red pepper, because I wasn't super hungry, and it was still so light and delicious (that's what's great about Italy, the simplest dishes are so yummy). Miriam got this really good pici with cream sauce and Joanna and Stacey got yummy ravioli with vegetables. After dinner, the four of us went to this other restaurant to get a tiramisu crepe (SO UNBELIEVABLY delicious, see Facebook for photos) and wine. We got sucked into karaoke while we there and met this very strange Italian woman who was very into trivia night at the bar (she was super creepy and just picked up Miriam's camera without asking and started taking pictures of us, which was nice, but at first we didn't know what she was doing. We just had an awesome night hanging out drinking wine (Moscato. But not from the blue bottle. Weird.) and singing Blink 182 at the top of our lungs. Miriam and I got back to the hotel and hung out with some other friends who were going out, but after we literally had a moral debate over it, we decided to stay in and get some much needed sleep before a very busy Friday.

Ciao!