Fall break was absolutely amazing. I am still in shock of how lucky I am to travel to all these beautiful places & to study in such a beautiful city for 4 months. For break I traveled to Paris & London with some friends and it was wonderful :)
The first stop was Paris...
Ashley, Teresa & I took a bus from Florence to Pisa on Friday the 21st. We flew out from Pisa because it's a much smaller airport & we scored really cheap flights (I'm talkin' no more than 20 euros cheap). The bus was supposed to leave at 11:15 but it left about 20 minutes later than expected and took a bit longer to get there than we anticipated. Needless to say we RAN through the Pisa airport to check-in and find our gate (let me add that I was carry a bag that was 15 kilograms (about 35 pounds) that had no wheels to drag.. it was not pretty). Luckily we made it to our gate with a little time to spare. We flew into an airport right outside of Paris (again, because it's cheaper) and then took another bus into the city. We were dropped at the Metro station where Teresa & I parted ways with Ashley (who met up with her mom) and we soon started navigating ourselves through the metro to find our hostel (again, all with a very heavy, awkward bag). We found our hostel with no problem and were finally there around 5pm.
This was my first time ever in a hostel and in-all it was enjoyable. The only semi-problem was that Teresa & I thought we booked a 4-person all female room with an attached bathroom. Turns out, we booked a 4-person mixed room. So, we shared the other beds in our room with boys. But not to worry, they were all really cool, and from all over the world. We had people come in and out (since we spent 5 nights there) who were from Brazil, Australia, Germany & Turkey. The only inconvenience was that we had to change in the bathroom (not a big deal). Boys are usually more easy-going than girls anyways, so it was fine :)
the first night there we were pretty tired so we took it easy. We went to a cute french restaurant that was pretty close to our hostel and had some fries, a yummy burger and a delicious dessert. Walking back to the hostel we noticed a movie theater on our street, which made us SO excited since we've been movie-deprived since being in Firenze. We decided it would be cool to see a movie we had both seen but in French, since we both don't speak a word we thought it would be a cool way to try to pick up some of the language. We decided to see Crazy Stupid Love, but to our surprise when the movie started playing it was in ENGLISH! We were a bit disappointed, but it was nice to see a movie regardless. Afterward we went to bed and prepare for the big day ahead of us...
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