ciao!

Hi family! oh my gosh, i havent written on here in so long! we only have 4 more days left of school, and i am pretty excited. it has been rrrrrrrrrreally hard. but hopefully i learned something. well, cinque terre was amazing! of course, and i actually swam in the ocean. i think the 2nd time ever. it was pretty scary, and i peed my pants, but it didnt matter because i was in the ocean. but it was very touristy, and out of control. but, we stayed in tents with beds. yes i camped in cinque terre. it was gross. last weekend we went to venice and tried to go to the heineken festival. we were suppose to see the killers, pearl jam, my chemical romance, and linkin park. but as you all probably heard from celery, there was kind of like a mini hurricane the italians are calling it, and it blew all the speakers down, while the first band was playing before we got there, and injured a bunch of people, so they cancelled everything. but the good news is i bought some cute shoes. i also bought bob his own diary. i found this cute book called, il mio diario, and it is all in italian but it is for dogs. i am so excited to show you gu ys. next week we head down to bari, lecce, alberobello, and napoli. it is kind of scary because we have heard the mafia is very rampant down there and because of this, there are hardly any police down there. two years ago---this is an awesome story by the way, a new political figure tried to take the mafia out of the south, and the mafia beheaded him and put his head in the piazza and used it as target practice for anyone else who tried to get rid of the mafia. marco told us this story last night after we told him we were going. then we realized it will all just be part of the experience. ?? well, love you guys, and miss you a lot. T i heard you had surgery and hope you are okay! let me know!