Buon anno!

Happy new year all!

I ended the year by taking a random trip to pisa. because I thought it was about time I saw that leaning tower, I mean who knows when it will fall down!? So, I quickly hopped on the train, or maybe not that quickly, the earliest train available was at 1pm...anyway, I arrived late but that was okay, and checked to the hostel and right away I had to go find the tower because, well that is why I went. I couldn't do anything else until I found the tower, I couldn't pee, I couldn't eat, I couldn't drink, until I found the tower. Fortunately, It did not take long to find the tower, Pisa is not very big. so it was dark and i found it and it was again, amazing to see a famous piece of architecture glaring at me in the night.

so there it was and I was hungry and very thirsty, I went to go find a place to eat some pizza, because pizza in pisa, sounds nice. and it was pleasant.

I always like to get 4 stagione (kind of pizza), because I like a little bit of everything. :)

After that, I had heard the people at the hostel were going out that night to hang out and I thought it would be a fun opportunity to meet interesting new people so I joined in. and it was fun there were a few people from the states, california and south carolina, a girl from indonesia, and two really silly italian guys. I made friends with another italian guy that is friends with the people that work at the hostel, we got to talking and I met up with im the next day to go around pisa, in the day light because pisa is hard to see at night, as you could imagine. so bam! here is the tower in day light:
and here is me kicking it:





It was a short nice trip to pisa, and i made a friend! beautiful! so then I returned to milan, to bring in the new year. At first i did not know what i would do, but i met with a friend and her boyfriend for dinner then we went to the disco club and celebrated there. some guy drew a picture of me:
not bad! hahaha! yes soooooo! I am excited to see what 2011 has to bring, very excited and happy because 2010 was just full of new things and learning. I spent most of the year preparing to be here in italy, not even knowing for sure that i would even be here! and here i am, going to different places in Italy and eating so much food. I mean I never ate so much in my life. Happy 2011 to all of you! Whether you're going into this year with a smile on your face, or with a not so happy face, I hope for all the best. The advice I just want to say is: Don't hold back, no matter what it is. The tricky thing with opportunity is that it's not always going to knock at your door, you have to go find it yourself sometimes. Grab it by the tail.