Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
A bit about being a year older and the begining of the real fun of being abroad...
Buenosera Amichi!
Liz and Katie here wanting to check in to let you all know we are in fact alive! These last few weeks have been crazy, why we thought that things would calm down once school started is a question we ask ourselves daily.
As many of you know some of the most exciting events thus far have happened in the last few weeks. For example, we have started our 11 weekend in a row tour around Italy and Europe. These adventures are being documented in there "secret" locations and will be slowly going up over the next week as episodes of WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE KATIE AND LIZ?! (yes, we know this is a shameless rip-off and would like to thank Matt Lauer for letting us copy his show!) Its has been fun filming these mini-episodes because it not only gives us a fun reason to learn some history about the places we are visiting but also gives you, our loyal followers, an opportunity to check out things as they really are. Look for these starting early next week.
Also, we just celebrated our BIRTHDAY! If you would have told us we would be celebrating in Rome a few years ago we would have laughed in your face, but its really happening. We had the most amazing dinner with our friends (Oh, and the most exciting piece of all) our parents! They made it into Rome on the 4th despite their huge delay in Munich and made it just in time to wish us a HAPPY BIRTHDAY on the 5th :) Unfortunately they came in on one of only a few very ugly days of weather we have seen in Rome thus far. It has been so amazing having them here in Italy and being able to eat with them and travel with them doesn't hurt much either..... We will pick their 4 star hotel over a hostel - or even our apartment- any day. Funny side note, we were planning to do all of the "tourist" stuff with them during the four days they were in Rome, like go to the Colosseum etc. But they got here and wanted to see Rome as we do.... Talk about a boring few hours of going to the school and the supermarket... Thus, the following night we made them go to the Trevi Fountain and take pictures of us throwing coins into it and to the Colosseum where we spent nearly a full hour waiting to get the perfect "jumping shot". (Katie doesn't like a single picture but Mom got bored, so we left haha). Also, our parents took 11 of us out to dinner to meet some of the kids in our program! It was so nice for them to get to meet our amazing new friends and understand why we love being in Rome (because let me tell you, its certainly not for the classes- side note, our teachers still don't speak English...)
We are now currently looking out over the ocean perched on a cliff in one of the most beautiful spots we have ever seen. We obviously cant give away the location quite yet but wanted to share our excitement of having the privilege of traveling around Italy for the next four weeks with our parents!
If you would like to see pictures of all the fun we are having check out Liz's Facebook page (she has been deemed the official photographer of our abroad experience). And look forward to our new Video- Posts (Katie's full undertaking)!
Ciao, For Now!
Liz and Katie here wanting to check in to let you all know we are in fact alive! These last few weeks have been crazy, why we thought that things would calm down once school started is a question we ask ourselves daily.
As many of you know some of the most exciting events thus far have happened in the last few weeks. For example, we have started our 11 weekend in a row tour around Italy and Europe. These adventures are being documented in there "secret" locations and will be slowly going up over the next week as episodes of WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE KATIE AND LIZ?! (yes, we know this is a shameless rip-off and would like to thank Matt Lauer for letting us copy his show!) Its has been fun filming these mini-episodes because it not only gives us a fun reason to learn some history about the places we are visiting but also gives you, our loyal followers, an opportunity to check out things as they really are. Look for these starting early next week.
Also, we just celebrated our BIRTHDAY! If you would have told us we would be celebrating in Rome a few years ago we would have laughed in your face, but its really happening. We had the most amazing dinner with our friends (Oh, and the most exciting piece of all) our parents! They made it into Rome on the 4th despite their huge delay in Munich and made it just in time to wish us a HAPPY BIRTHDAY on the 5th :) Unfortunately they came in on one of only a few very ugly days of weather we have seen in Rome thus far. It has been so amazing having them here in Italy and being able to eat with them and travel with them doesn't hurt much either..... We will pick their 4 star hotel over a hostel - or even our apartment- any day. Funny side note, we were planning to do all of the "tourist" stuff with them during the four days they were in Rome, like go to the Colosseum etc. But they got here and wanted to see Rome as we do.... Talk about a boring few hours of going to the school and the supermarket... Thus, the following night we made them go to the Trevi Fountain and take pictures of us throwing coins into it and to the Colosseum where we spent nearly a full hour waiting to get the perfect "jumping shot". (Katie doesn't like a single picture but Mom got bored, so we left haha). Also, our parents took 11 of us out to dinner to meet some of the kids in our program! It was so nice for them to get to meet our amazing new friends and understand why we love being in Rome (because let me tell you, its certainly not for the classes- side note, our teachers still don't speak English...)
We are now currently looking out over the ocean perched on a cliff in one of the most beautiful spots we have ever seen. We obviously cant give away the location quite yet but wanted to share our excitement of having the privilege of traveling around Italy for the next four weeks with our parents!
If you would like to see pictures of all the fun we are having check out Liz's Facebook page (she has been deemed the official photographer of our abroad experience). And look forward to our new Video- Posts (Katie's full undertaking)!
Ciao, For Now!
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