Spring Break

Yesterday, we got back from our spring break trip. I was only able to go to Prague and Amsterdam because I was sick the first few days of spring break.

Prague was AMAZING! It was so beautiful there, I swear I feel in love with that city. It just has so much history and the buildings are beautiful. It was just all around an amazing time. We went to Prague castle which is obviously freaking HUGE! The cathedral was so gorgeous! The stained-glass windows were just amazing. I seriously can't get over that city. The old Jewish quarter was really awesome too. We went to the cemetery and some of the remaining and still functioning synagogues. The cemetery is enormous! I couldn't even capture all of it with my camera, that's how massive it was. We also went to this little museum call the museum of sex machines. It was freaking hilarious! I should have taken pictures in there but I just couldn't bring myself to do that. There was this little like movie theater where they were playing the first ever pornographic films. They were both from I believe the mid 1920's. I gotta say, big women need love too. The women in these porns were pretty tall and pretty big. It's kind of weird to see that shift in what's considered beautiful and what's not in society in standards of beauty. I was just blown away by the food and just everything Prague had. I kind of wish we could have spent more time in Prague. I hope I can make it back there one day.

Amsterdam, well it's Amsterdam. Hookers, pot, and a few really awesome historic sites and museums. In a nutshell, if New Paltz was a burough of New York City and pot and hookers were legal, that's Amsterdam. It was a fun trip there though. The Anne Frank house is there and we saw that. That was actually really hard for me to get through. I may not be religious or anything but have some respect people! There were people in there who, I felt, kind of just wrote the whole thing off and were just like ' yeah it's the house of some girl'. Whatever though cause I liked it and it's something that's really important. We also went to the Van Gogh museum. I was so excited about that! Vincent Van Gogh is one of my favorite painters and I got to see 'The Bedroom' and all the 'Sunflowers' paintings! I'm such a dork when it comes to those things. I was really impressed with that museum. We did spend a lot of time roaming around the red light district. This is what we figured out from the red light district: during the day, the really old prostitutes work and the bigger girls are on display for your needs and at night the skinny, prettier ones are on display for business. They legit stand in this tiny apartment in the window just hanging out trying to call guys into their rooms. They are not allowed to solicit on the street, otherwise it becomes illegal. We counted 5 trannies and we figured out that the pride flag on a hotel was a homosexual hookup hotel. There were also live peep shows and live sex shows. It kind of made you feel a little dirty but it was just too funny. Also, you can't take pictures of the hookers which made me really sad but whatever, that is definitely something I wont forget. Obviously, a lot of coffee shops are pot shows where you can either smoke or get an edible. No, I did not do either of these things and I never will. There was one night where we all went to this ice bar. Yes, an ice bar which is probably the corniest thing I have ever done. It was pretty awesome drinking a beer out of a glass made of ice but damn I think once is good enough. We also went to the Heineken brewery which actually was pretty cool. I actually learned a lot about the properties of beer, how to make it and the process, as well as all the tastes and things like that. I may not be a drinker but I can still appreciate going to the brewery. Amsterdam really isn't a city for me and I think like one and a half days there is good enough for anyone really.

Getting home from Amsterdam was a looong freaking adventure. We took a night train from Amsterdam to Zurich, Switzerland and then from there we were supposed to go to Milan and then transfer to Florence from Milan. That didn't happen. Before we left Zurich, there was a landslide in the alps so they had to reroute the train to go around the alps. The alps are fucking HUGE! I think we transferred at least 6 times just in Switzerland (including a bus transfer) just to get to Italy but we didn't even get to make it to the central station in Milan. We had to take the subway from the second Milan station to the central and then get on a speed train back to Florence. In all, it took a total of about 28 straight hours just to get back to Florence. Holy fuck, it was a long freaking journey. Spring break was awesome though so I'm glad I actually did something. I still wish my mom could have came out and we could have gone exploring Florence together though.

So, I found out that my dad is legit opening his deli!!! As far as I know, he should be having a soft opening on the 19th and then after that he should be officially open in April (probably by the time I get back home but hopefully sooner!). Obviously, I will be the counter bitch and hopefully I can still work at Lane Bryant as well. I will definitely need the money after being in Italy for 4 months and how bad gas prices have been in the states. I also hope that Bobo can get that job at the bank this summer. I know how much he really doesn't want to do the summer research and I know he always feels bad when he can't help pay for something. I'm actually quite nervous about coming home and that whole adjustment period. I don't really know why, but I am.

On another note, there is legit like less than a month and a half left of my stay in Florence and it's going to fly by. I can't believe that more than half of the time is already gone and it's mid March already! I didn't get to celebrate my 6 year anniversary the way I kind of wanted too but that's ok, I can always do it here or wait until I get home for that. I'm still struggling with some very personal things and it's hard to push them away because I'm afraid that once I get home, it's just going to hit me so hard and I don't know if I can handle that. I'm kind of going off a little bit here but that's ok, I write what I want to. I hope everyone else has a great spring break this week (whoever has one) and I hope everyone is doing well and I will now be back to getting in touch with everyone!

Ciao <3