emilia romagna

Ciao a tutti!

I hope the rest of the northern hemisphere is warming up like florence is. i've still got a few layers on but not that "its really cold outside" pain that has been lingering the last 4 months. there have definitely been moments where i wish i didn't give Dani's jacket back after iceland. i knew it was going to happen, but hopefully the hard part has past and i may even be able to leave a layer or two along the way.

it has been great the last week in florence staying with my friend ashley from university. a few days ago we went to the most extreme hill town in tuscany--civita di bagnaregio. its this ghost-townish place that is falling off the pedestal of land that it sits on. there's only 14 people that live there permanently and i think we may have met one of them at the restaruant/bed and breakfast that was there. other than that we've just been hanging out at the apartment and around florence. its definitely made me more prepared to live in a place again (at some point, not quite yet).

i go to my next farm on sunday. they only speak italian, so i should probably start thinking in italian again. that way i won't get sleepy when i arrive. its in the emilia romagna region of italy--north of tuscany (its the one with Bologna in it). but tomorrow i leave for ravenna; i guess thats also in the same region. i've never been there and it sounds like its got a lot of cool history.

i just finished The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. the way he used words was amazing. Grace, one of ashleys roommates, lent me the Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara. it looks really good and hopefully it won't turn me into a communist (although i think he was a good one).

maybe the next post will be from Slovenia!

have a good day
your friend

chad