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Ok, so it has been forever long since I posted. My bad. Well, let's see. The last weekend in September, I went to Munich for Oktoberfest. Seeing as I strongly dislike beer, I didn't spend very much time actually at Oktoberfest. Josh and I did a whole bunch of sightseeing. We went to Dachau, the concentration camp. So, there clearly are not going to be a whole bunch of happy-go-lucky events from that day. It was incredible, though. Umm, Evan, Josh, and I cracked each other up the entire time, which is always fun. Then, we came back and spent a week at school. Well, Monday night was amazing. We went to eat dinner, see a movie, and go to a mojito bar with one of our teachers, who is 24. And she's awesome. We saw this movie "Volver" with Penelope Cruz and I understood it all. I was so freakin proud. Well, this past week (October 5-12) Evan and I travelled to Italy for our fall break. It was the most beautiful place I have ever been. I just loved it. We started off by flying from Valencia to Florence on RyanAir. Well, let me address the airline situation first. I really felt like there should have been live chickens running up and down the aisles. The airplane felt like they taken a city bus and wrapped it in the shell of an airplane. The seats did not lay back. They were, in fact, made of plastic. We were cramped. But it was a blast. And the flight was only two hours. When we got to Italy, we realized that we were actually flying into Pisa, not Florence, so we had to take an hour-long bus ride to Florence. However, we missed the first bus so we had to wait an hour. In that hour, Cary got bitten on the chin by what we thought was a mosquito. However, judging by the fact that his chin doubled in size, I'm not so sure my guess was correct. So, he drank fome Benadryl, and we were on our merry way. We got to Florence, and peaced out from the rest of the UVA kids and headed to Gretchen's apartment. When we got there, she was mildly freaking out (which is SO unusual for Professor Presenell) because we were running late getting there. We hung out and when Jenna Wilson came in, we hid and then jumped out. I ran and gave her a hug, and we fell on the floor and... well, let's just say Jenna caused a mess. We stayed in Florence until Saturday just going out and having fun and eating lots of food. We woke up on Saturday intent on getting to Rome early. Well, as luck and poorly-researched train schedules would have it, we didn't get into Rome until 6:45 at night. Buuuut, we ended up being on the same train as Richard Roberts, which was amazing. We looked unsuccessfully for a pub that was showing the Wake-Clemson game, which, in retrospect, was probably a good thing. The next day, we woke up after our skeezy Spanish roommates left. We spent the entire day wandering the streets of Rome. We probably walked about 15 miles that day. We started the morning by seeing the Pope in St. Peter's Square, which was so awesome. We went to the Colosseum, Pantheon, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and St. Peter's Basilica. Every sight just blew us away. The next day, we got up and went back to Florence. Emily Stocks was back at the apartment when we got there, which was really exciting. We spent Monday and Tuesday kinda hanging out, eating, going out, and just being friends. It really made me happy to get to hang out with those three girls. Wednesday afternoon, I headed to Rome to meet up with the UVA kids to fly back to Valencia. As I was buying a metro ticket, I ran into Meredith Blunda, which made me day! We hung out, got soe gelatto, and met up with my friends. We went back to our hostel to figure out how to get to the airport the next day. It turned out that we had to leave the hostel to take a 4:30 AM bus, so we didn't go to sleep. We ate a huge dinner, played stupid games like Rapid Fire and The Newlyweds, and finally got back to Valencia at around 9:30 AM. I slept the entire day. Now... I am here. In Valencia. Finally updating. New picture on Webshots and Facebook. Check em.