Florence Day 1

Hey guys,

TODAY WAS THE LONGEST DAY OF MY LIFE! Hands down.  I had to take four different trains to get to Florence from Castelvanca which is where we caught the train after riding the bus from Paderno del Grappa (where campus is ) and then after all of that I got to my hotel checked in and decided to try to go to a view places I wanted to see... WELL I read the map wrong and walked in the complete opposite direction, wound up in the ghetto of Florence and had to ask for directions in Italian.  After that I got lost again trying to make my way to the site I was attempting to but on the way I did see the outside of a view places on my list.  AFTER THAT I attempted to find a place to get internet and found out I needed to give them my passport which my hotel had in order to use the internet.  It has been a ridiculously long day and hopefully tomorrow I get everything I wanted to get accomplished done.  I will put picture up on here tomorrow at some point.  Love you guys!

campus was pretty the morning I left

This is a view of the mountains on one of the trains to Florence

This is the Santa Maria Novella Church outside the train station

This is one view of my small room at my "hotel"

this is my twin bed... yayyyyy

This is the street I saw first when arriving in Florence

this is one of the sections of their national convention center

this was outside the convention center i thought it was kinda amusing i think its jesus and friends haha

This is another part of the convention center

this is in the park next to the convention center i thought it was pretty (below)

below is a picture of the graffiti in the ghetto I got lost in hahaha

This is in Independence Plaza at night

 I thought it was cool they had a Harley store

this is the Church of San Marco at night

Above is the Duomo which means church but its like the National Church called Santa Maria Fiore

this is the front view of the same church

this is the Apple Store in Florence for Abe lol