Final Rush

Whew! The weeks just fly by here in Florence.  Its been a hectic rush of classes and getting used to an actual schedule after having over a week of freedom in Greece for fall break. Oh yes, Greece.  But I'll get to that in a minute. Or maybe tomorrow; it's a multi-chaptered story.  Let's start with the preliminaries and do an overview of all things leading up to and involved with fall break.  

Two weeks before fall break I was sick

...but thankfully I have very good gi

rlfriends that I live with who took wonderful care of me. The girls would sit around with me and watch movies in bed, make me tea, periodically checked how I felt, and made sure I got lots of sleep.  Unfortunately I may have given my bug to my room mate who was not feeling well the next week: midterms.  I had a midterm or paper in each of my classes as payment for being released into freedom. We also had classes and our crazy/awesome 80 year old art history teacher threatened to punish us if we were absent from our museum visit on Thursday to start 

our break early(as we don't have class on Friday to her dismay). Thankfully all of us are good st

udents and hadn't made plans until Friday or Saturday.  

We were scattered over Europe: Greece, Tuscany, Sardinia, Ireland, London, and San Marino.

Half of the girls' families were coming to visit over fall break so there were 5 of us who needed plans for break.  Being sick two weeks before, I had not planned much and decided to go with Holly on a student trip with this company called EuroAdventures to Greece. We would first spend 2 1/2 days on

 an island called Corfu, then 

see Athens for 2 1/2 days.  With this trip you pay a set price and get a guide, transportation, accommodations, some meals, some tours, and a whole group of students to meet. There are several different companies like this in Florence

 to choose from.  It can be fairly expensive for a student to travel this way, but we also pay for the convenience of not having to deal with being in charge of finding places, transportation, finding that transportation...lots of thing

s involved.  We had done that f

or some weekend trips and for fall break it was nice to relax and see Greece without worrying when we needed to switch trains or where to find the right boat going to Greece.  

We finally bought our trip Monday, made it through midterms, checked the weather in Corfu and Athens, threw some clothes in our carry on bags, and we were off to the train station to meet out adventure!

I will tell you more about Greece in my next few posts...A Domani!