First few days in Florence

I arrived in Florence at 3:30am our time and felt nauseous because I was so tired and that I was going to die. I got my bags and was picked up by a study abroad italy representative. I went to the SAI office checked in and got some paper work. I moved into the apartment which is huge and in the center of everything. I am living with 7 other girls. 3 are from Texas, 2 from NY one from Chicago and one from VT. All the girls are really nice I lucked out. Florence is beautiful and so old! I have been eating a lot of pasta and drinking wine. My roommates and I have just been wondering around exploring and getting aquatinted as best we can. There are definitely a lot of new things to get used to such as speaking italian, short showers, huge heavy doors with very complicated locks, pushing doors open instead of pulling, elevators, making my own dinner the list goes on... but I'm excited to learn the ways of the Italians.

Ciao