Another Lazy Weekend in Perugia

Hey all!

So after having a delicious chinese meal on Friday, we went to a friend's apartment to make crepes for dessert and decided to just hang out till about 3 am. There are a lot of neat people here, Italians and americans. Its even neat because we live right next to the University for Foreigners which hosts people from all over the world. Today, we meet some girls from Turkey and the other day I met some girl from Albania. Theres so many different type of people here, I feel like sometimes its hard to find a true local, Italian.

But Saturday we decided to just wake up and head to the train station. Once we got there, Lauren, Leslie, and I just hopped onto the nest train leaving and ended up in Cortona for the day. We tried to walk from the train station to Cortona, but thankfully we decided to ask someone how to get to the main square because it turns out you have to take a 20 minute bus ride from the train station up this huge hill. That would've been quite the walk. Cortona had beautiful views, very similar to Perugia. We arrived during the Pausa so it seemed like it was a ghost town. But we had a cute little lunch and walked up and down the tiny streets looking at the many local antique shops. It was a very fun, relaxing, quiet day. Then once we got back it was my friend Kristen's 21st birthday so took her out to dinner to celebrate.

Lauren, Jane and I were extremely excited for this morning because we thought that we finally figured out this beautiful gothic church had mass in English! Turns out it was false advertisement so we walked into the end of an Italian mass. They told us we were in the wrong church but when we went to the second church that was suppossed to have mass in English, we walked into yet another service. So we just sat through mass in Italian again, but we're determined to find a place that has service in English. After mass we were going to go grocery shopping but EVERYTHING is closed on Sunday. Since we took the minimetro to the big grocery store, we figured we should get something while we were down there and went to McDonalds for breakfast :)

But its about 3:40 here and I am meeting some friends for coffee at 4. Italians are very eager to practice their english! Hopefully Ill be watching the Superbowl, but it doesn't air here until midnight, so well see how my homework and if Im even still awake by then :) go steelers! haha miss you all! Take Care!