Today (Friday)

So today was a wonderfully calm day! The 90 degree sweat inducing heat of the last three days subsided and turned into some cool showery weather, which was perfect for today since our plans were to spend the whole day studying and working on our 20 page paper that is due in a week and a half, and an outline is due on Monday.

I stayed at the apartment since my computer is connected to the internet and it also served as a good way to get some time apart from the guys, don't get me wrong...we're getting along, just some alone time was nice. BJ and Pat went to the library, Jaunessa walked around Florence and ran errands.

I worked on my paper and hit some Gold Mines of information, so my outline is almost done. BJ and Pat are struggling a little bit, just hard to narrow down a topic. We get to chose a topic we want to compare between two countries and things can be so big it would impossible to cover in 20 pages, so that is part of challenge.

Monday BJ has to lead a class discussion, Tuesday I lead a class discussion, then the following week we all have to a 20 minute presentation of our paper topic that we are working on now, plus a final exam for our other class....lots of work.

While I was here working today, I took the opportunity to take all our towels down to the washer and wash them. No one (we don't even think the PM) in Italy has a dryer, so we are learning the art of drying our clothes on a line! It is great.
So I washed all our towels, cleaned the floors and our kitchenette!

So the place looks great.

Tonight is Jaunessa's last night here which would lead one to think, Friday night her last night..party time! But, her train leaves tomorrow at 8:25AM, and she is smart enough to know hangovers are not good for a two train ride trek back to Rome Airport, a flight to London and a flight home...

So, we're not sure what is in store for tonight, we might all split up and do our own thing, we might do what we did last night and just hangout at the apartment. But that would suck because we canceled going to Venice so we could enjoy one party weekend in Florence. So, we'll see...money is always a constant concern and so is us being productive for our papers tomorrow, so going party time tonight might hinder all of that.

Okay, BJ just showered, Pat and Jaunessa should be coming back from shoe shopping for Jaunessa, so I should go get changed for dinner.

Miss you guys!