Assisi and Superbowl Monday

Ciao amici!
This past weekend our group traveled with the school to the town of Assisi, the center of Italy, and we had a great tour guide who took us to the Basilica of St. Clare, through the town center, and down to the Basilica of St. Francis. Everything in Assisi is dedicated to Saint Francis of Assisi, for obvious reasons. The town completely made out of limestone, which is absolutely beautiful. The history and art in both of the churches was unreal...unfortunately you aren't allowed to take pictures inside, so I guess you'll just have to come and see for yourselves :)

Basilica of Saint Francis

On Sunday we just hung around at our homestay, I accomplished one of my essays that is due this week, and we saved our energy to make it out to watch the Superbowl at night. We went to an American Bar here in Florence, Red Garter, which was one of the bars that hosted the event. The Superbowl started at 6:30 at home, which means 12:30am here... but yes, I made it out and I stayed out til about 3... once the halftime show was over. We didn't get to see any of the Superbowl commercials since it was a live stream and not actually live TV, so if you have any youtube recommendations, let me know about that!

Other than that nothing too exciting has been happening this week, we have two essays due tomorrow..fun stuff. My best friends are visiting from their study abroad program this weekend, 3 days, which is my motivation for the week! I can't wait to show them around the beautiful city of Florence :)

PS. random note for those who plan on studying abroad here: bring a Nalgene or water bottle because they charge you for water everywhere. Even in restaurants, free tap water just doesn't happen!