Roman Tutorial on How to Become Roadkill
OMGWTF!!!!
I IS RETURNED!!!!! I terrorize your lives once more!
So the trip, what can I say, was mostly awesome. I WANT TO LIVE IN GREECE. MACAW! We saw so much "wicked pissah" stuff like the Vatican, the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's Basillica, the Trevi Fountain, the gallery in Florence, the ruins of Pompeii (ha ha, more on that later), the ruins of Delphi, and the Parthenon on the Acropolis (and probably a bunch of other stuff that I forget right now). Just about everywhere itself was awesome, though I'd have to say that to relax I'd want to go to Sorrento the most, although everyone says I was born in live in Greece. In spite of the craptacular hotel food, my stomach managed to enjoy some nice Greek and Italian cuisine. Note: ice cream is now forever ruined for me. It's all about the gelato! Not to mention the baklava. And the feta. And the espresso. And the moussaka. And the . . . you get the point.
I do miss some things, but after spending ten days straight in hotels with the exact same people, I'm quite glad to be home with my parents in my own bed and room with a regular bathroom and shower without a crazy schedule and able to eat tea and bagels for breakfast again. Macaw!
Well, I kept a sort-of journal of the trip that is extremely random and disorganized and would take forever to type out, so I'll attempt to sort through it this week. Here are some tidbits:
TRIP HIGHLIGHTS (in order of how I come up with them, not chronological):
-The bus ride to JFK airport in NY was the most enjoyable bus ride of my life because I was with everyone before spending ten days with them and before they started complaining about everything.
-Overseas airplanes are fricken huge, not to mention IMPOSSIBLE to sleep on.
-I was actually looking forward to driving here in the U.S. again with nice sane people. You heard me, sane people. The drivers in Italy are FUCKING PSYCHOPATHS that only managed to increase my fear of being hit by a car 2000%.
-Rome for all it's insane drivers and crappy public transportation gets mad points for being so beautiful and having art on just about every corner.
-Athens on the other hand has the best train system in the entire world. And is pretty nice without the creepy people trying to sell people ecstacy.
-Michelangelo is not overrated, in fact he is perhaps the best artist to ever live period.
-Even if you have no idea how to play, Rummey 500 is the most amusing card game to watch.
-We flew over Shannon, Ireland. That kinda amused me.
-I never thought I'd find an airport that I disliked more than Logan but I did: in Frankfort.
-Everybody loves my amazing technicolor dream-cross.
-The other tour group with us was from New York and they were pretty cool. I mostly hung out with Jesse (who can quote Monty Python liberally), occassionally with Kat (with whom I played a "guess the Broadway song" game) and Frank (with his umbrella "Shawn"). Unlike some of the other people though I wasn't all crazy over them. Whatever.
-My deep thought of the trip: how the Colosseum proves that Rome is the cornerstone of modern Western civilization. The Romans built a giganitc feat of architecture that could seat 50000 people, all to watch animals eating people or people killing each other. If that's not the precursor to reality TV then I don't know what is.
-Just about every day of the trip we got some rain ranging from drizzle to downpours. The only completely sunny day was the last one in Athens where since we were on the Acropolis, I got my face sunburned ON THE ONE DAY THAT THE SUN WAS OUT. DAMN YOU APOLLO!
-We witnessed the second destruction of Pompeii. Seriously. While we out in the complete open space in Popmeii we experienced torrential downpours, high winds, and hail. My umbrella only survived because I didn't even take it out. We were completely soaked. We then had lengthy discussions on who to sacrifice to appease the gods.
-My roomate numbers grew during the trip from one to two to three. Needless to say, I am once more happy to be ALONE.
-GELATO!!!! Trust me, walking about a mile in Rome at night is totally worth it for this stuff.
-Nobody got the hang of using doors in Italy. Honestly.
-Getting eleven hours of sleep is a priceless treasure. Other than that, hated the boat from Italy to Greece, especially since everyone is alllowed to smoke everywhere in Europe.
-American bathrooms are the best in the world. Trust me on that.
-Going to Greece felt oddly like going home. I don't know why as Greece is nothing like Revere, but it was so nice and peaceful there (on the coastline that is).
-My retarded watch battery ran out halfway through the trip. BLARGH.
-Worry beads are the best invention in the world.
-The ruins of Delphi was my favorite place we went on the trip. Words don't describe that experience.
-Going to Europe would have been so worth it even if all we did was watch Mr. Daily try to dance with the belly-dancer. (no, I am not joking).
-Let's just say that I had to have the patience of a saint to deal with certain people on this trip and leave it at that.
-I immediately remembered that it was Friday during Lent right after I wolfed down ham for breakfast. Yay me.
NOTABLE QUOTES:
Katherine: I haven't sneezed in a while! That was fun!
Amanda K.: I want to learn French! It's a spitting language!
Katherine: I'm a real nose!
Kristina (on chicken dinner): It tasted like arrows!
Kristina: If gelato was a man, I'd marry it!
Amanda L.: Shannon ordered mussels.
Kristina: From what animal?
Me (on the floor of a public bathroom): Ew! Wetness!
Paul: It's so addictive. It's like PCP without the "c".
Kristina: So it's "pee-pee"?
Alicia (on my soaked pants at Pompeii): You look like you un-peed your pants.
Mr. Raia: Drop it like it's hot!
Me (on Amanda L. hittng a sign on the street with her backpack): Nice job Amanda, you just broke Rome!
Mr. Raia: I thought the Rene just asked where Rene was.
Erica: We're losing samity.
Ashley: I have to pee again. What's wrong with me?
Katherine: The raindrops are so big in Italy!
Paul: That's because we're standing under a tree.
Amanda K. (at the Colosseum): I love death!
Alex (on Paul's middle name): It's something girly like "Elaine."
Paul: MY NAME'S NOT GIRLY!
Me(on seeing Italy for the fisrt time): Oh my God! Italy's green!
Me: I'm pimping out my beads.
My last words: yo momma. Later!
I IS RETURNED!!!!! I terrorize your lives once more!
So the trip, what can I say, was mostly awesome. I WANT TO LIVE IN GREECE. MACAW! We saw so much "wicked pissah" stuff like the Vatican, the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's Basillica, the Trevi Fountain, the gallery in Florence, the ruins of Pompeii (ha ha, more on that later), the ruins of Delphi, and the Parthenon on the Acropolis (and probably a bunch of other stuff that I forget right now). Just about everywhere itself was awesome, though I'd have to say that to relax I'd want to go to Sorrento the most, although everyone says I was born in live in Greece. In spite of the craptacular hotel food, my stomach managed to enjoy some nice Greek and Italian cuisine. Note: ice cream is now forever ruined for me. It's all about the gelato! Not to mention the baklava. And the feta. And the espresso. And the moussaka. And the . . . you get the point.
I do miss some things, but after spending ten days straight in hotels with the exact same people, I'm quite glad to be home with my parents in my own bed and room with a regular bathroom and shower without a crazy schedule and able to eat tea and bagels for breakfast again. Macaw!
Well, I kept a sort-of journal of the trip that is extremely random and disorganized and would take forever to type out, so I'll attempt to sort through it this week. Here are some tidbits:
TRIP HIGHLIGHTS (in order of how I come up with them, not chronological):
-The bus ride to JFK airport in NY was the most enjoyable bus ride of my life because I was with everyone before spending ten days with them and before they started complaining about everything.
-Overseas airplanes are fricken huge, not to mention IMPOSSIBLE to sleep on.
-I was actually looking forward to driving here in the U.S. again with nice sane people. You heard me, sane people. The drivers in Italy are FUCKING PSYCHOPATHS that only managed to increase my fear of being hit by a car 2000%.
-Rome for all it's insane drivers and crappy public transportation gets mad points for being so beautiful and having art on just about every corner.
-Athens on the other hand has the best train system in the entire world. And is pretty nice without the creepy people trying to sell people ecstacy.
-Michelangelo is not overrated, in fact he is perhaps the best artist to ever live period.
-Even if you have no idea how to play, Rummey 500 is the most amusing card game to watch.
-We flew over Shannon, Ireland. That kinda amused me.
-I never thought I'd find an airport that I disliked more than Logan but I did: in Frankfort.
-Everybody loves my amazing technicolor dream-cross.
-The other tour group with us was from New York and they were pretty cool. I mostly hung out with Jesse (who can quote Monty Python liberally), occassionally with Kat (with whom I played a "guess the Broadway song" game) and Frank (with his umbrella "Shawn"). Unlike some of the other people though I wasn't all crazy over them. Whatever.
-My deep thought of the trip: how the Colosseum proves that Rome is the cornerstone of modern Western civilization. The Romans built a giganitc feat of architecture that could seat 50000 people, all to watch animals eating people or people killing each other. If that's not the precursor to reality TV then I don't know what is.
-Just about every day of the trip we got some rain ranging from drizzle to downpours. The only completely sunny day was the last one in Athens where since we were on the Acropolis, I got my face sunburned ON THE ONE DAY THAT THE SUN WAS OUT. DAMN YOU APOLLO!
-We witnessed the second destruction of Pompeii. Seriously. While we out in the complete open space in Popmeii we experienced torrential downpours, high winds, and hail. My umbrella only survived because I didn't even take it out. We were completely soaked. We then had lengthy discussions on who to sacrifice to appease the gods.
-My roomate numbers grew during the trip from one to two to three. Needless to say, I am once more happy to be ALONE.
-GELATO!!!! Trust me, walking about a mile in Rome at night is totally worth it for this stuff.
-Nobody got the hang of using doors in Italy. Honestly.
-Getting eleven hours of sleep is a priceless treasure. Other than that, hated the boat from Italy to Greece, especially since everyone is alllowed to smoke everywhere in Europe.
-American bathrooms are the best in the world. Trust me on that.
-Going to Greece felt oddly like going home. I don't know why as Greece is nothing like Revere, but it was so nice and peaceful there (on the coastline that is).
-My retarded watch battery ran out halfway through the trip. BLARGH.
-Worry beads are the best invention in the world.
-The ruins of Delphi was my favorite place we went on the trip. Words don't describe that experience.
-Going to Europe would have been so worth it even if all we did was watch Mr. Daily try to dance with the belly-dancer. (no, I am not joking).
-Let's just say that I had to have the patience of a saint to deal with certain people on this trip and leave it at that.
-I immediately remembered that it was Friday during Lent right after I wolfed down ham for breakfast. Yay me.
NOTABLE QUOTES:
Katherine: I haven't sneezed in a while! That was fun!
Amanda K.: I want to learn French! It's a spitting language!
Katherine: I'm a real nose!
Kristina (on chicken dinner): It tasted like arrows!
Kristina: If gelato was a man, I'd marry it!
Amanda L.: Shannon ordered mussels.
Kristina: From what animal?
Me (on the floor of a public bathroom): Ew! Wetness!
Paul: It's so addictive. It's like PCP without the "c".
Kristina: So it's "pee-pee"?
Alicia (on my soaked pants at Pompeii): You look like you un-peed your pants.
Mr. Raia: Drop it like it's hot!
Me (on Amanda L. hittng a sign on the street with her backpack): Nice job Amanda, you just broke Rome!
Mr. Raia: I thought the Rene just asked where Rene was.
Erica: We're losing samity.
Ashley: I have to pee again. What's wrong with me?
Katherine: The raindrops are so big in Italy!
Paul: That's because we're standing under a tree.
Amanda K. (at the Colosseum): I love death!
Alex (on Paul's middle name): It's something girly like "Elaine."
Paul: MY NAME'S NOT GIRLY!
Me(on seeing Italy for the fisrt time): Oh my God! Italy's green!
Me: I'm pimping out my beads.
My last words: yo momma. Later!