My first real week in Firenze!

My first real week in Florence was a full five days of classes and a crazy weekend in Lake Como! My first week of classes were crazy and stressful! My Italian teacher is AMAZING! I love him so much. He is hilarious. My sociology teacher is great. But his class is just not my forte. Humanities 212 will be the death of me. My teacher is kind of a snob. He has a very elitist attitude. But that is life. And my Humanities 295 class, enriching Italian culture, is going to be so much fun! Elizabeth, the program director is just the sweetest person in the whole world. And the class is quite interesting. So the week was one of the three long week we have each semester. SO we had class on Friday and only had Saturday and Sunday to travel that weekend. So Anna, Bud and I picked somewhere close. Lake Como! This place is so beautiful! It like the French Rivera, Hong Kong and Germany all rolled into one! You have palm trees and the Italian Alps in the same place. It is just so quaint and precious. We only spent about 27 hours there, but it was so nice. In this weekend we went on 4 trains, 2 buses and 3 ferries. Just splendid. I would recommend it to anyone who likes to relax. There isn't a whole lot to do. But there is great food and wine. The perfect place to relax after a hard week. Unfortunately on the way back we got onto the wrong train from Milan to Florence. And we were charged 100 euro because they thought we were trying to stowaway. This train went from Milan to Florence but was a bullet train. So faster=more expensive. I will never make that mistake again. But we got home safe and sound and all in all it was a fantastic weekend.