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| | Subject: | ROMA! | | Time: | 09:16 am |
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| so i just got back from rome late last night.
NOT ROME AVENUE FOR THOSE WHO KNOW ME, BUT ROME, AS IN THE CITY IN ITALY.
it was nice, very small, but i liked it a lot. we stayed at some hotel in the center of town and took the metro. i saw the colloseum, the pantheon, the roman forum and the ruins, the trevi fountain, the freaking sistine chapel!, the vatican, st. peter's, the tomb of the fallen soldier, and the jewish museum and the jewish ghetto in rome. it was so freaking sick.
rome was lovely. there were free fountains everywhere to fill up water bottles to stay hydrated. i had some really damn good bruschetta and pizza and potatoes and tomatoes and everything was just delicious. i'm getting so food-spoiled! i'm never going to eat when i come back to america.
i am spending 4th of july on a lovely island called sardinia. i will be flying into the airport on the coast and staying a block away from the beach in alghero. my boyfriend will be there along with cynthia, a bunch of other people from the program here, and one of our friends who is studying in genova. we will rent a speedboat, i hope.
we are trying to plan a weekend to rent a vespa and go driving around the hills of tuscany. we want to drive through the olive trees and maybe over to do a wine tasting in chianti. you know, where they make all that chianti wine that is only made IN italy IN chianti. that'd be really awesome. and hopefully we can visit capri? i'd really like that.
i've been doing some street photography, and i'm impressing myself with how good i'm getting at it. i thought i was a straight up studio/location girl only and none of this available light stuff. we shall see. rome has been photographically successful for me. i am trying to plan a shoot soon with some of the girls here, some beauty stuff with available light. maybe i will do it tomorrow. yes. that seems like a great plan. also, i'm getting to be better at painting. who the hell would have thought??
i'm going to go read about michelangelo on our terrace. ooh la la fancy me.
I MISS EVERYONE A LOT - ESPECIALLY BROOKLYN AND ALL THE PEOPLE IN IT! keep me posted on the things you guys are doing please please please and postcards will be sent out this week! | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| i've been keeping a written journal but i feel like i should totally update this and let you guys know that italy is amazing. all the food is freaking delicious, even the packaged stuff that is probably their lowest quality of goods. the fruits and vegetables are the freshest things i've ever tasted. each cheese is better than the next. i have had the most delicious cheesecake i've ever had in my life, made with mascarpone cheese. i thought it was just cream. with fresh berries and a really good crust. I DON'T EVEN LIKE CHEESECAKE! the restaurant was beautiful and atop the hills of florence in tuscany. i also don't really like olives but joe bought these freshly made green olives from this guy at the open air market and oh man. wow.
the language barrier is my favorite part. each time i tell them what i want, even if brokenly, it makes me feel so much more empowered. its like a drug. gosh i never want to go home. traveling is going to get addicting. i want to go everywhere and learn everything. its crazy how much you pick up when youre forced into the situation and have no choice.
i just had the best sandwich i ever had in my life. it was 4 euro, which is kind of expensive, but man was it worth it. buffalo mozzarella, provolone (REAL provolone) and mad good swiss with pesto and fresh tomatoes. i never wanted to stop eating it. like, never. i was so sad when i was done.
our place is suuuuper tiny and i could hear cynthia typing upstairs last night, lol. it's really typical florence, like, pretty much what you would expect a tiny little place to look like. i wish we had a common space other than the kitchen, something more comfy, but i guess it will do. we have a little terrace that overlooks other peoples' terraces and apartments, lol. we're going to get a table out there soon - can't wait!
i could talk for hours about the food (and i did! with tamara haha) but i will end this now. this has been amazing and italy is way cooler than london because i'm learning the language and able to afford the food of the country and the culture whereas london can sod off. :D sorry lauren and liz! | | comments: 6 comments or Leave a comment |
| I figured I'd let all of you in livejournal land know I'm in London, safe and sound, with Joe! We're staying near Oxford Circus with our friend Justin. Shit is sick here, just mad expensive, but I can't help but love it. I really, really love it here. I can't stay long, we're off to go do some fancy shit like museums and galleries and markets and stuff, but leave comments!!! I miss you guys, but London is so beautiful. <3333
We also didn't get lost, or robbed, or get our baggage misplaced. ALL IS WELL! | | comments: 10 comments or Leave a comment |
| Well, at least for a little bit.
I JUST FOUND OUT THAT I WON $1,400 FOR A KODAK PROFESSIONAL IMAGING SCHOLARSHIP!!!
Holy shit. That was AWESOME. Some kid congratulated me and I had no idea what he was talking about. I thought he meant the Addy award that I won $500 for. WRONG. Checked my email and THERE IT WAS!!!
Then I got awarded $500 more from RIT for this year for financial aid. I think I might use the $500 to fund my plane ticket to Europe this summer.
AAAAAAAAAAAND! a piece of mine is going to be in a gallery exhibit in Rochester in a few weeks!! No money there, but who cares!? It got chosen, I can list it on a resume, and I'm going to be EXHIBITED!! How freaking cool.
I called my mom ASAP and told her. She was ELATED. I like when good things happen. I wish it was a little more spread out than ALLLLL at once. But hey, I am NOT complaining.
I dropped off a scholarship application to the Women's Center today at the last minute. I don't know how many people are up for that, but I hope I get it! And there's a Nathaniel Rochester Society
OH! And Adam was here this weekend and it was freak ing joyous and we had a blast! It was seriously one of the best weekends I've had in Rochester and I'm so glad he was here to enjoy it. AND I GOT TO LAY IN THE GRASS TODAY BECAUSE IT WAS LOVELY OUT!
I am having the BEST WEEK EVER. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| look ridiculously hot?
win a heavy award that looks like an oscar?
get $500 for photography?
schmooze with some important people in the industry?
free alcohol?
get a bunch of business cards?
go to an after party with some more important people?
finally get in bed at almost 5am?
all yes.
goodnight.
(ps: we won! thank gosh my boyfriend did our design.)
Edit: 1:25pm:My scan is going to be the cover of my school's Reporter magazine! The whole school is gonna see it, I get paid more, and I still have my photos in the article that I get paid for, too. This weekend is just too good to be true. But I still wish I was in Vermont though :(
3:45pm: And I just won a $50 gift certificate to my school's bookstore! What is going on?? This weekend just keeps getting better! | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| every day should be started an hour earlier than normal (or a half hour for people who are kind of like me and can't wake up).
this is so your daily dose of good energy music can be enjoyed.
it uplifts you and your day. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | wow. | | Time: | 11:38 am |
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| my birthday was an absolute blast.
thank you to everyone who was there, called me, or left me some silly comment on facebook.
i really really appreciate it.
i couldn't have asked for a better birthday weekend. really. it was so perfect.
from chuck e cheese, to surprise parties!
from canada to 24/7 arcades!
from super nintendo games and buffy action figures to all you can eat breakfast buffet and vegan cakes!
i love my friends. <3 | | comments: Leave a comment |
| uh, so, everyone that lives here is not here and its just adam and i. and we're eating food that we just cooked with bacon bits and they are delicious and vegetarian. no one is home. we are making a mess and pooping on various items throughout the home. any suggestions for places adam and i can poop on, please leave a comment.
thank you. im going to enjoy my mac and cheese with bacon bits now. | | comments: 10 comments or Leave a comment |
| HEY EVERYONE.
to those of you who know me, and know me decently, i've always had the same light blue sony erickson since you've known me. that is correct - one of the first color screen phones. also, a phone that i've had for, roughly, 6 years. (it'll be 6 in december, i believe)
BUT YESTERDAY WAS THE DAY OF ITS DEATH.
that's right, ladies and gentlemen, i've put it to sleep. and replaced it with THIS:
not to worry, i have all of your numbers still, i just wanted to brag because i finally have a new phone. which means no more submerging in water and no more throwing it at people because it's my baby and i'm gonna treat her right. :D | | comments: 6 comments or Leave a comment |
| so next summer, i've decided, will be spent traveling the world. well, a good part of it, anyway.
i'm going to italy with joe and cynthia (at the very least) and hopefully susie, matt demayo, etc. we will be there for 5 weeks. after this, i would like to continue traveling around europe. everyone i have spoken to has told me it is RIDICULOUSLY cheap to travel around europe. so i'd like to spend a week in a few different countries, though i know this will be very difficult. maybe we can leave a little earlier and one really great country for a week and then stay the rest of july in a few other countries. maybe 5 days instead of a week? i don't know.
-basically 1 week in june, go to _____ european country. whichever is the cheapest to fly to. seriously.
-next 5 weeks will be spent in italy - i think it's until early july. the next 21 days, (3 weeks) should be spent in 4 countries. greece is totally on my list, and i know joe wants to go there too. there are these books that you can get for different countries (i forgot the name but the girl at christian's, eline, told me about them. i have to get the name again) that tells you of all the fun stuff to do there, and not just touristy stuff either. so if we fly to germany or switzerland, or maybe austria and the czech repuplic a week.5 early, we can easily take a bus/train across into italy, and we'd have gone to 2 countryies already. not bad.
-after italy, we should keep traveling, but i don't know where because i don't know if there is a way to go from italy to greece without flying. i know tamara did some sort of cruise thing, which would be so lovely. greece would have to be our last stop because it's so far away from everything else. i want to go to croatia. i should have went to croatia. ugh, the water is amazing there.
-whereever we are at the end is where i will go to israel from. it turns out that birthright has trips in august. flying from greece (assuming) to israel would be a lot cheaper. hopefully they can make the accomodation. and i think it would be amazing if like, no one came with me because everyone is an asshole. i have no jewish friends at school, which sucks, but there are jews at home that should come with. it's free, what do you have to lose?
-after israel, i want to keep traveling around a little bit. i'd love to go to syria (woo!), jordan and egypt. that would be so sick. spend a 5 days to a week in each country and then come home to get ready to go back to rochester for senior year. holy crap, i think it'd be sensory overload.
so, will all of this happen? i have NO idea. it'd be really cool if it did though. i have a while before the birthright thing expires so maybe i'll just do that the summer i graduate and it'll be a graduation present from judaism to me. plus the graduation money should help out with a lot of the expenses i will be seeing. maybe joe could come along for the rest of that trip too? he said he wanted to come but isn't jewish at all in any way so it's pretty impossible to get him in for free. i suppose we will have to see when we get there.
if we don't take advantage of traveling around europe before/after italy, it will be SUCH a waste of money. so i hope we do this. i don't care if anyone else comes with me, cuz i'm going. i am SO excited i can't even contain myself. :D
(i know, a dramatic change from yesterday's post)
happy july 4th! i need to get dressed to go to manhattan to meet everyone for free vip concert tickets and free food. yes. | | comments: 6 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | icp. | | Time: | 04:24 pm |
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| i'm an idiot.
look at the shit you find when you just CLEAN and LOOK. man. i'm so retarded.
i wonder what else i can find.
SPICE UP YOUR LIFE. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| i wish lovage made music videos. hands down, no doubt in my mind, they'd be really freaking cool.
additionally, people have been telling me about the spice girls reunion and i am in dire need to go. that is kind of all i want to listen to. i want to dance around my room and try to find my spice world tank top that i bought at their concert in 5th grade when i was with my dad. AND i saw them when ginger spice was still around. so THERE.
and in further addition, my boyfriend is coming over this weekend and i couldn't be more excited. i get so sad when he's gone. <3
(psst: tamara- make some effort to meet him, please? come on.) | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| i am never going to russian mike's keg again.
it was depressing and i really hate drugs a lot.
i love lou for sitting and talking to me though, he's really awesome.
but if i ever forget why i don't want to go back, just remember tonight. | | |
| can someone please make a pretty boy (or my boyfriend, either will do) sing and play me this song one night with candles everywhere and a rose? i think i'd never leave.
oh yeah, and i want to be blindfolded and surprised too.
( Hey_There_Dalilah )
ps: every other song of theirs is GARBAGE, except this one. | | comments: 10 comments or Leave a comment |
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