HI HI HI!
I am on a really tight schedule since I am trying to catch a train from Riomaggorie, the first of the five towns that I traveled yesterday, to Florence! Tuscany here I come. Btw i have used no contractions with I am because I cannot find the appostrophe button. I had the best travel day yesterday and I must tell you the adventures I went on yesterday but right now I am rushed. I also lost my computer plug so I can not use my computer anymore! ahhhhhh okay I GTG see ya ciao!

Biassa

        I have successfully arrived at my Ostello (Hostel) without getting lost or killing myself woohoo! The three hour train ride was successfully smooth and all...very scenic too!

Right now at Ostello Tremonti it is a small cute village where everyone lives on the edge. Well everyone here is like 60 years old or older but the houses look as if they are about as close to the edge of the mountain as physics will allow it to be without the house falling off into La Spezia. The hostel is not in Cinque terre but rather it is up high in the mountains and there is a shuttle that the hostel has that will connect me to Rigamattorie... the first town of the "five lands". Biassa is a little unknown village/town up high but the crumbling houses are just sooooooooo beautiful to me, I love it!

My pictures are quite bad in artisticness because I had chocolate all over my fingers...not a fun story. 

This was so much prettier in real life...really far you can see eve more mountain/hills...so nice. 

Also at my hostel I'm in a room with four beds but tonight it seems there is only me and another girl. She is from Argentina and speaks VERY good English. Btw she speaks french AND Italian as well...amazing. She has been traveling for more that half a year...sounds like my dream. She is super oober nice and very easy to talk to. We talked for a while and her adventures involve a WHOLE LOT of luck on her part. Crazy how lucky she gets.She meets the perfect people...I asked her if she was lucky at 18 and she said no,...so maybe I have to work up to her luckiness. She's already got a job so she's significantly older than me. She was Au pairing all over the place France, Italy, New zealand. Went to Portugal ... I don't even remember all the places. Out of the farm for a few hours and already meeting great people! I hope I stay lucky! Okay I gotta figure out and plan my day out for cinque terre tomorrow! See ya! Ciao 

<3 Em 

trenitalia

Marco says he hates saying goodbye so instead he said bye. hahah do not cry baby...it is so funny how he says this in his accent. There are so many people that come and go on the farm. it must be quite sad and exciting , sending off what seems to be parts of yourself back to where they "belong" and all over the world. Within these past two weeks i have had to say goodbye to so many people that ive grown to really like.
but rather than looking at the coming and going of these people in my life as goodbyes...i feel it is more appropriate  when i say that i look at them as moments i can keep and new parts to myself in forms of  opinion, fact, knowledge, and personality..even music. or especially music.
omy i just remembered i had a very strange dream. i will talk about the bits and pieces i recall before I forget! sooooo
i was climbing up some weird ancient matble stairs, very narrow in width, and Cloudia was hurrying me up (cloudia was like the teacher-mother of my group on my teaching trip in taiwan last summer). Anyways when i got there i realized i was late for my work study at ucla. supposedly i was given the job as pizza cooker in the cafetieria! i was working with all the athletes since the one thing we had in common was that we were all undeclared ( this was a deja vu of my orientation in which i was in a group with many athletes for exactly this reason). then one of the track girls nicely/bitchily said to me.."youre sooo late. but i kneaded your dough for you." she jumped outta what was now my station as pizza maker and i apologetically started to make my pizza...with all my buff athlete co workers doing other very seemingly strenuous cooking activities. the heat was killer in there and when we were cooking the pizza in the oven it felt more like we were all working in a coal mine instead. this part of my dream must have had something to do with the fact that while cooking in the hot kitchen with Francesco, the other day, he laughed, saying that this heat in front of his huge stoven, in his more than warm kitchen, on a 100 degree day was his prepartion and training for hell. thats why they got hells kitchen from probably. okay out of reality and back to the dream..next i was in ancient rome/ china. There were roman bells in chinese temples and we were in a desert like mountainous area. then i was in some game room or super market and noel and hannah joo were there and there was some sort of get tohether or competition we were playing for some event.. i am very confused and cant remember this part at all...so weird.
i said i felt sick got a fake call slip from my dad and went away... somewhere.
omy the train is heading out of parma into la spezia as i speak! so excited and nervous that i am on the wrong train i have buterflies in my stomach. but dude they just said la spezia on the speaker so im good plus i asked like twenty million people to confirm.

i am being super distracted and very lengthy in writing since i have nothing better to do on this two hour train. i am in disbelief that my stay at the farm is over. my ciaos ( the goodbye ciaos and not the hello ciaos...its like aloha) well my ciaos to everyone, i felt like they should have been said louder our longer or i dunno they needed to be special because i am really going to miss Francesco, marco,and lucca and theyve been only kind to me and fun and very loving. however my ciaos were cheery and short hahah and  yet i guguess thats what life is!  I rushed marco and had him stop eating  to take me to the train stationafter i finished speed eating my lunch  for the first time here. i gave francesco and marco a handmade card. a pan of pasta and a watermelon is what i respectively drew for each them.

holy crap i am really diggin into this blogging train activity arent i! i think ill tale a break. i feel like my organization was like a very complicated movie it kinda started and ended in the same place..and i went into dreams and back to reality haha inception.
okay ciao. im going to do some other train activity now.

Ciao!

CIAO CentroFiori Fattoria (100 flower farm)!

<3 !!!!

Last time

Bon Appetit!
My last breakfast here at the farm! Cookies, Biscuits, with coffee! How I will miss this sweeeeet breakfast hahha <3.
Hopefully I can help Francesco prepare the lunch before I leave....and of course help him eat it too!
Today I shockingly woke up a little cold; there was a lot of wind last night...just like the first night that I came. I suppose I come and go with the wind...or at least that's a nice way to think of it.
      Last night I had a beautiful dinner since the day before was the festa! I picked a green melon from the field myself and it was satisfyingly sweet and crunchy! Hehehe! I also picked tomatoes and pepper to add to our pasta that we cooked. For dinner there was still eggplant, chicken, baked tomatoes, cheese tomatoes, rabbit I think, and zucchini...quite the feast..but it was just Lucca and me last night.

We still sat outside and I'm glad we did because the wind was SUPER..yes it was just super...not super anything, just super!  I felt very content and happy with this last peaceful dinner. Marco is now back since it's the morning but he was at his parents house last night and Sophia left to go home yesterday too.
     I am leaving at 2:33 pm but I insisted that I have to work. I would not want my last day on the farm to be too easy, or I'd miss it too much. hahha just kidding. I'll miss it just as much.

WAH

            So I am finally leaving the farm tomorrow. It was actually on short noticed because I realized I have so little time left and I would love to see other things as much as I love love love life on the farm (minus the mosquiotoes... those little effers). Today is Sunday and I will be packing up to leave for Cinque Terre! One of the most beautiful places....EVER! I've booked my hostel for two nights: Monday and Tuesday. I am quite excited about my alone time adventures and hope everything goes well! on wed and thursday i'll be in Florence or Sienna and on Thursday I 'll be arriving in ROMA! I'll be staying with Rachel and Sarah and on if I make it on Thursday night I'll be going to Sarah's open mic night at some Irish pub! Woohoo!!
           I will dearly dearly miss not being able to have dinner here tomorrow and the day after and forever after that. When I leave this place, there will definitely be some farm times in my heart that I will never forget...and even more, many lessons learned. There was ANOTHER festa last night and I think it really topped them all.  I had a great time. I understood many of the jokes...except for the crude ones...so good thing. I looked at all the dishes Francesco made last night and was satisfied to realize I recognized all the ingredients to his dishes and had made most of them with him at one point or another! Also I picked all the vegetables that were there as dishes last night. Then we had this AMAZING lava cake brownie thing...super awesome. We drank wine and we said cheers and everyone was joking or serious about how I would now have to return to the States and wait 3 years to drink wine again :( hahha. Btw I learned a lot about alcohol here. It is very casual. We don't drink to get stupidly drunk...or even drunk. We have it at dinner, at lunch and we have it with food. We have some more after dinner to enjoy an easygoing conversation with music and relaxation all around...tranquillo is the word. No one makes a fool out of themselves and everyone is relaxed. Alcohol is great if you can learn to respect it and not abuse it. hahaha this sounds so cliche but there it is. Never drank in high school but here I am in europe learning that if I shall do it, I shall do it right.
        My wwoofer friends told me about all the drinking games i should avoid in college..but actually it was just avoid all drinking games hahha.
     Well today I'll be spending my day packing up and seeing what I need to do on the farm. It's sunday so I don't think there is any big dinner. Lets see what i can whip up...I think however that the only thing I have truly mastered is a freaking mean fresh salad hahhaha very sad. I need to practice my other dishes more!
Okay I REALLY need to go clean my wasp infested restroom and my hurricane-ed up bedroom. There is literally a circle of dead wasps aligned around my toilet....i have no idea how they die themselves but they usually are alive and healthy in the morn and I find another dead one on the floor at night. Scary wasp murder in my restroom!
AITE CLEANNING TIME BABBY!
CIAO!
<3

Life is goooooood

I haven't been posting for 3 days probably because it's SO HOT that I do not think of approaching my computer...and exerting extra energy...hahaha I'm only kind of kidding.
Anyways last three days have gone by super fast and I can't believe it's been another week. Now the two American wwoofers, Rachel and Sarah, are leaving!! :( I didn't travel anywhere with them because we all stayed on the farm for the week but it has been a lot of fun getting to know them. They are both nice and super funny. They give me great advice...on life...we play 20 questions..and we simply hang out on the farm during down time.
 Marco asked for water....so I splashed just a tiny cup of water on him as we were standing outside...and then we had a HUGE ASS water fight yesterday. HE ran and got a huge waterbottle... then he upgraded to a bucket and rachel, sarah, and I were dead wet in a few seconds. So we all got bottles and marco attacked EVERYONE on the farm, Siad, Sandro, etc...until there was only Francesco. Who he pretended to be plotting against with us (the already wet people) and then instead he was actually plotting with Francesco. Who came running at us with some big blue bucket he pulled outta nowhere...and I ran but once I got engulfed in the water I turned around and he was under Sarah sprawled on the floor laughing because he completely slipped. and he himself was also soaked. hahhah water times. Btw Rachel and Sarah are always saying things as "times" like ______ times. We walk through a bunch of mud...."Aww man...mud times". we talk about a past dinner. "Food times. Food times." hahha there's always a new lingo i'm learning here.
Last night all the wwoofers ate together in this one room since there were police men having family parties outside at the bbq. It was like being in a slave quarter...eating disgracefully indoors hahha it was quite funny.
For the last 3 nights we've been making our own dinner. Cous Cous, and fresh salad. mmmmmmmm so good :) and everything was literally picked right off the farm.
Today we had a bbq and it was DELICIOUS. Red wine to top it off... i think we stayed up till 1 or 2, listening to Ella and Louis outside under the skyyyyy. I also realized how great it was to be here when I had said...wait up guys i don't think we have enough lettuce...I'll just bike to the lettuce patch! I cut off a lettuce head and we cut up tomatoes that we JUST picked and had a DEFINITION-OF-FRESH tomato salad. I hated tomatoes until i came here. Now I LOVE LOVE LOVE them hahaha. probably will hate them back in the states though.
After work today we did various activities and sports by the lake....:) skipping stones and reed-lance throwing, rock-shotput throwing, and some hiking to get to a nicer view.  OMG Its 5 am. I think I'll take a nap and wake up to see what we're doing this saturday!
<3 em