That's the Christmasy song I'm listening to right now... I'm getting really excited/frazzled/terrified/emotional/EVERYTHING as Christmas hurdles out of the far future into the immediate future. My mom's coming tomorrow! I guess I didn't realize how soon that was until today when I went to the American parents party at school. Not a whole lot of people had brought their parents, but there were enough to make me realize "Woah! Parents are coming for Christmas; my mom's coming!
Tomorrow!!!" That's so... immediate! I'm getting up tomorrow early to go to Aleja's house, and we're going to catch the 8:00 train down to Rome. That takes us to Roma Ostiense; from there we get on the metro to go to Roma Termini, and then out into the web of streets to find Hotel Stromboli... And there will be my mom! And Lynnette! I was ridiculously emotional at the parents party at school. Afterward, Deborah and I went to Cafe Bagaglino up the street from school and just collapsed into the chairs; she's going to Germany for winter vacation! In fact, she just now caught her train to Rome, where she'll get on her plane. So both of us were sort of frazzled, and just sat at the cafe making our way through a bag of cookies.
My winter vacation:
24-25: Hanging out with my two families (!!!)
26-27: Siena
28-29: Rome
30: Back to Viterbo to meet up with my friends
31: Venice! Imagine, New Year's Eve!
1-8: As named by Ryan, The Grand Northern Italian Adventure (catchy phrase: 2 countries•4 regions&1 canton•11 cities•18 trains•8 days). Wow. Can we talk about how exhausting and cold that will be? Amazing, but... wow. So much! These are the cities we're hitting: Venice, Trieste, Padova, Vicenza, Verona, Bergamo, Lugano, Bellinzona, Milan, Mantova, and Modena ... 'Twill be an adventure of epic proportion.
Because my brain is so fried, I am now going to do absolutely nothing constructive: namely, watch
A Christmas Story and wrap presents. If I don't just go to sleep and not wake up till tomorrow...
I never believed people when they said how stressful the holidays are!! It's not that it's stressful yet, per se, but it's just such a giant deal that's scary to think about. I want to be five again! Though I suppose I wouldn't be in Italy if I were 5... You gain some, you lose some, don't you.
2 Comments:
WHAT?! YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO BACK UNTIL THE NINTH?!
oh wait, you have jean's winter break. never mind. HA!
heeeey, you probably got our box by now, right?!
:D
just so you know, i stole you as my double for double-double day. janet only wears black, and ani only wears jeans, and i wanted to wear something DIFFERENT at the very least, so i'm sporting my italiana shirt. "my double fled the hemisphere, so there."
so there!
though i'm wearing jeans anyway. maybe i should've called ani. oh well!
butt-heart <3
by the way, to affirm the wide-held belief that i am a complete and total idiot, i just spent like, HOURS, on something that's worth all of two points. gra. so i'm tired.
FINALS ARE NEXT WEEK! (dies)
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