Last day at the farm....

Looks like I really made the farm my home....

Before packing up...

                         

                                 my dresser

          Different angle of my bed

 

                               After packing.....

           The day before I left it was storming!

freakin favorite...florence

hello i am in my florence hostel! its quite nice and super duper cheap! its especially attentive to making international assistance super accessible. Today i went biking today for like three hours around florence and discovered this beautiful church...not even sure which one it is.. but it was awesome possom! also my roommates at thhis hostel are scottish and yes they do have thr the best accents. totally beats the british accent.
now im off to a night bike tour. i dont even bike at home but biking here is super magical.i most definitely do not have enough time here...in italy! i really want to see more of tuscany but travel and hostel costs are adding up so i think ill see more florence in the morning and then set off to rome and meet up with my wwoofer friends rachel and sarah. i gotta say backpacking has been such an experience...gotta trust yourself cause youre the only one youve got.
hahahahaha omg i wrote the earlier paragraph right before i went on my night bike tour that my place apparently hosts every other day.......-t was the best experience...of all experiences... i could well say in my life. haha it was soeffing fun, informative, exciting, gorgeous. ap euro finally seemed to have a reason as we spoke of medici and the renaissance. its so freaking lovely..(he history, the stories, and the art... all of it! plus i loved loved loved the people on our tour. three girls from cali.a guy from new zealand.and three gi rls and four guys from limassol, cyprus, a super small island off of turkey and there they all speak greek! basically they were loud and excited all the time and that really helped to liven our group.. not to mention that we really started to have fun just introducing ourselves by name. 6irst cali girl says shes emily from california...wow. cuz i just said the exact same thing right after and yeah it felt like i was mocking her or something.. then the next girl is emma from cali too. ohh yeahhhh and emily was from usc though.. so we were immediately rivals. good stuff. hahah jk actually she was really cool! the other girl ended up hittin it up with thenew zealander. they went off together everywhere and left the tour early lol greatest things happen when you travel. oh and our tour guide was from miami and lives here cause she found a guy! its amore in italy..florence is the place to fall in love i guess. i have definitely fallen in love with the city. we saw it by moonlight, on the brige over the river, at michaelangelos piazza...stunning. whooooo and also we had real gelato...therwe are only three real gelato places left in florence and we went to one. awesometastic is all i have to say. i went with my daring side and got a gray gelato...it was sesame! how cool right? looked like concrete. our group was so great we were so alive and the streetds were all ours.. mostly. and we asked the tour leader if we could go to a bar cuz we were all so chill with eac other she said ..dude why not. it was bomb getting to know all the people. the cyprus people were goin to a club but emily and me emily were too not into the club thing. i was in her dorm in which she had ...ok im so tired i need to wake up early anf finish this tom..:oly craop bonne notte

Finito

Right now I'm at UCLA. My Italy trip has been the most amazing thing of my life and though it's completely over and done with, and my new friends are now billions of miles away in Italy and other places, I know life is gonna be different because of this trip and them. The things I've seen and the people I've met and the trust that i've learned to give myself have all happened in three and half short weeks. I can't believe it!
   Also I think that fate or somebody up in the sky really didn't want me to come back home with all trouble I went through to get to LA in the very end hahaha
     My train broke down on the way to the airport, and I lucky hopped onto someones car which took me to the airport, and got there an hour before my flight, but check in was over. I missed my flight back. However I guess the scenario played out as best as it possibly could for a nightmare situation. I met another guy who was heading for montreal (the same plane as I had) and we shared our sorrows and disbelief that we missed the effing plane.... and tried to work out our situation. It was four in the morning in LA soooooo no one was awake on fb which was my only connection to america at the time....except....one person was awake! and that friggin saved my life hahhaha I was soooooo grateful...cuz in the end Afraz, who never sleeps at a normal time, was able to contact my parents to get me another flight.
Anyways the dude from Montreal was really cool; going to college there and six feet six, has three jobs, and first language is french, though he speaks english perfectly. We just hung out for a whole day... and took a shuttle somewhere else since the airport was so dreadful and small and had bad wifi. Ended up that there was a beach right next to us. So went there, ate there, and went back to airport.
We made a good day of a really bad one, in the end.
      Right now I'm in Sproul hall, I have training for my new job as Team Green for Hitch Residential Suites in about an hour. I missed out on all the bonding they had at SB, camping as well as another camp ( hahha that's two camp/retreat things that I missed), since I was in Italy. However, I don't regret a thing. The Hitch Family is super welcoming, there are twelve of us, 6 first years and 6 other years hahah. Everyones really really great. I'm excited to be in LA and at LA.
Thing is I have to have training basically till school starts. :( I need to find time to hang out with my other uc friends in cerritos before I leave, so yeahhh imma see how this plays out! I even get to move in early two weeks! 9/11!
omg
aite gotta bounce! So sad that I couldn't post stuff for Cinque terre, Florence, and Rome on the blog since I lost my dang computer plug! Maybe I'll update that later. They were THE BEST.
<3 em

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)!

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