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How much do I adore this place? Sienna is the best town ever. Every morning I wake up with the sun spilling in throught the windows and look out at a beautiful view of the hill, crowned by the duomo and the bell tower, I walk up past said duomo to school, study art, Italian, history....and then on the weekends I go to Florence, Pisa, Lucca.....this is the romanticized "I LOVE it here!" side of things, which I am still very much in! There's also the "it poured all day Friday and I don't have any clean clothes left" side of things, but I don't feel like discoursing on those things at length.
It's too bad I'm so terrible at blogging these days. But I am finally getting back to writing in a real journal again, which is great. And no one really reads this thing anymore anyway, haha. Even I don't.
Suffice it to say that I am having entirely too much fun, as well as some trying experiences to make me grow. One of the recurring themes in my journal at present is the idea that there are very few scary or intimidating experiences that will actually kill you; the rest will only build character, and I take comfort in this. The point is that I want to become the sort of person who isn't afraid to go for it and do hard things. I want to be someone that can just take what life gives them with a smile on their face. So I'm really trying to live without regrets and fear and all those bad earthly feelings that just tie us down.
And so far, the journey has been wonderful!