Finally here!

Hi readers (parents, friends, whomever is out there)- I'm Genevieve and I am spending my spring semester in Florence. Studying and traveling in Italy has been a dream of mine for years and years, and I am just here to soak it all in. This blog will basically be a photo diary of everything amazing I come across; people I meet, food I eat, sights I see, all the good stuff that Italy is made of!

Anway, I got here on Wednesday and it has kind of been a blur of meeting people, unpacking, grocery shopping, jetlag, and running around. Orientation was boring, but as Rachel (my lovely roomie) and I were walking from one school building to the other, we saw the Duomo di Firenze and it just hit us that we are FINALLY here!

Feeling very Italian, we headed to get an amazing cappuccino, delicious.

He swirled a heart into it and I got a biscuit filled with Nutella.

Some other stuff we hit up between Wednesday and Thursday- our first dinner out at this cute trattoria, and I got the pappardelle alla cinghiale (wild boar), and basically just walking around for hours. We saw the Ponte Vecchio,

the famous cinghiale statue (fun fact- it's nose has become that bright golden color by people rubbing it for good luck),

and hit up a bunch of piazzas- like the Piazza della Signoria.

I also "cooked" my first Italian meal: focaccia, bocconcini, prosciutto, and chickpeas!

I am still super jetlagged and am going to take a nap, as the Italians do (I love, LOVE that naps are not only acceptable, but encouraged here).

Ciao!