Only 17 More Days!

Ciao Tutti!
Its a-mazing how quickly time flys! I can't believe i've been living in Italy for 4 months now..so wild. It has been an awesome experience. Anyway, let me take some time to tell you what i've been up to. I havent posted a blog in a while because i have been so busy with so many things. Ok lets start at easter break. For easter we had 4 days off so my friends and I went down to southern Italy to visit our cousins for the easter holiday. Then we went over to the Amalfi Coast which is absolutely beautiful. It was such an awesome vacation.




Anyways so now we've been back here in Siena for a while and have been keeping busy. The semester is winding down so everyone is busy with exams and final projects. For most of the classes here the final assignment is a 10 page research paper in italian. I'm sure i've mentioned this before. But anyways, we're all working very hard. We all have different levels of Italian so for some its more difficult than others. Last week our school took us on an excursion to the famous Perugina chocolate factory. Perugina is the company where they make those famous Baci chocolates with the love quotes inside. It was so cool to see this huge factory..and..eat the chocolate.



THEN after the chocolate factory they took us over to Assisi. As i'm sure you know, Assisi is a very important city for Siena College students because thats where St. Francis was from. The day we we're there was actually the same day as an international conference of all of the Friars of the Franciscan order so, our own Br. Brian Belanger (Siena College Director of International Programs) met us there!! He took us all around Assisi and gave us an awesome tour. It was so cool to be there becuase there is so much important heritage...esp for us Siena College kids.




Allora (as they say here in Italy for "okay then") Its time to get back to work. Oh and i forgot to say that next weekend my friends and I are going to Athens, Greece for the weekend. Its going to be like our last trip and i've always wanted to go to Greece so im SO excited.

Ciao Ciao!

Gregorio