Italia...un nuovo mondo!

Yeah pretty much...I have been to alot of cities most of which i can't rememeber becuase they were in deed so long ago but here are some great photo's of them all.

I apologise for such crappy posts and then lack of great pictures and information...but i do assure you things can only get BETTER lol...yeah i am hoping the Kinder Bueno-White- gives me KiCK i need to create brilliance umongst unbrilliance.So here goes.

From the 17th-the MASSIVE PARTY till the 26th of October I jsut did the usual...Italian lessons, Uni, slept, ate, not much else.

The 26th the Uni had organised a trip to Parma. Parma is north of the Region Emilia Romania, north of Bologna. It's still in the region I live in.

My Polish Friend -Magda- and I went to the train station and I was a little bit late and we managed to miss our train. But thats ok! We jsut took another one! We did however have to wait for an hour or something...that was crappy...but hey. The trip was with my history class to look at some exhibitions that were going on in a couple of towns. The first was this small one that wasn't very interesting however I did understand a bit of French. I managed to fall asleep in the seminar thing...kinda well not a good look...LOL but I was doing work for my Presentationa dn I was POOPED so yeah plus I had to get up early. So yeah. I dunno...it wasn't all that crash hot and I didn't really understand much...I should have been paying attention! but you know...I wasn't...as usual...I just couldn't be bothered really! But none the less it was kinda col. They had awsoem photo's around the place...i dunno what they were for...but they were cool none the less.

We were in this little town for a couple of hours or somehting so yeah I was like thats enough. by that time I was getting really hungry and just wanted to eat! We got on the train to Parma so yeah I was like excellent the home of Paramasen Cheese! LOL so yeah we got there and walked to this awsome PARK in the middle of this random city!
Magda-at the cool park in the Middle of Parma.

Meet Annmarie. She was born in Melbourne but now Lives in Malta.If you don't know where that is...it's a weeeee little little island south south of Sicily. Or just google it!

Yeah we jsut walked around alot. There was another exhibition on and this was a bit more exciting but for some reason the itlaians LOVE!!! Alodo Rossi! I have nothing against hte guy but his buildings well they aren't like my sorta thing. I am more into the modern stuff. But i do how ever love the classics. I htink you can never change or recreate the past. So i think that people should just stop trying. No offense to all those Architects out there who do that. But anyway it was awsoem to see that they loved him enough to put even the sketches he did on napkins etc in frames. I htink thats when you know as an architect...you've made it! LOL I want to have my sketches framed LOL. We were in a really old building which was really cool. It was in a library and yeah full of old stuff. Architectureall old stuff so yeah. Was weird though. liked it none the less.

After that we had to buy a ticket for 5Euros whihc would allow us to see someother exhibitions around the city of Parma. It was kinda cool the other exhibitions. They showed some really awsome Architects and wow...the models...wow! I realised how important the can be to well tlling your design! How ever I ahve never been a great model maker...but thats ok i will jut pay someone else to make it or me! HEy hey!

The tutor guy was really kinda enthusiastic about this one building. It really didn't make any sense to me as to why he was really happy about this building...but you know...i think it had something to do with Aldo Rossi...and well youhave to appriciate that...me...no I wasn't listening mainly caus ei couldn't understand what he was saying and I really found my shoes more interesting...but hey...thats life...This was the building the Tutor was so intersed about. I though that if you turned around the building there was way nicer then the one the guy was talking about. It was from the the 1900's and was of the Art Nevoue era...I cna't haw ever remember how to spell it even after doing an essay on it LOL yeah thats how much things stick wit me! LOL We walked aorund the city after seeing our final exhibitiona nd yeah got a realy BAD GELATO...I dunno why it was so bad it just was! I have become a lover of Pistachio Gelato how ever the one I had in Parma...It took me 3 ice-creams to get over...more onthat later! But it was bad....eh. I think however the great architecture then the weird Russian guy and the cool shop which reminded me of my DAD lol it kinda was an awsome day. We were walking back to the trai station and I said we should stop at this cool thing...that welli first went into and was like ahh not ment to be in here...and then since we had the cool sexy ticket thing we bought in the other place we could go in here for FREEE...well we ahd to atleast to use 5Euros worht of entrance fees so you know! The really cool ting about this exhibition was the eally awsoem lights...featured below. I was like wow...really liked em!!

There were some amazing designs. It kinda gets you all excited about what you do how ever the fact I can't do somehting like that makes me sad...and then i loose all the excitement LOL but hey thats cool!
As we were walking back to the Train Station I saw this Shop which was dedicated to Paramsen Cheese and well Ham...things I was like I should take a photo for my dad...so I did. How ever...

...There was this man...from Russia and he said I should take a photo of him...so I did...yeah the random of hte day!
That was our trip to Parma. We got home lateish and yeah I htink i jsut slept. I had to finih off a project for Design...it was a slide show and yeah i was kinda tired and i got a message taht the thing hadn't sent and yeah i was like ahhhhhh grr....but none the less i had fun in parma!

Friday 27th of October was the day of my FIRST and probley not the last Italian Presentation. I had to evaluate my building and stuff and yeah i was like kinda really really really really tired...and i fell asleep "listening" to the other presentations! So yeha I was like wow...when it was my turn I spoke in Itlaian and then I also had a girl translate what I said inEnglish to the rest of the class. I was like hey wow. NAd then it was time to sleep! LOL I had to get up the next day for my first trip with Zola Youth Group! They rock!! and yeah was like eh... that night i didn't get to sleep till something like...2am/3am...so yeah had 2 hours of sleep by the time i got up for the train!

Sturday 28th of October yeah... was really tired by the time I got the train station that was at like 6am...yeah tired. This trip was the first we had gone on. We were going to Lago di Bolsena! It was really cool Femke, Henrique, Patricia, Michel and myself went on this marvellous adventure. Lago di Bolsena is in the South of Tuscany and above Rome. It was like a9 hour bus ride with a 1 hour train ride fomr Cesena to Bologna...oh yeah it was great one! SO here are some photo's! Some of the sexy veiws fomr the bus! It was cool we had a free brekfast at this random place...well it was a petrol stationa nd I was like hey wow this is nice! We got a pasta-or a pastry in english and either a coffee or a Juice. I had a Juice of a Red orange-or well a grape fruit...damn it was sweet i was like eh...sweet and that along with the sweet thing really really woke me up!
This is a picture of the Lago di Bolsena where we were staying. We had an awsome hotel whish was righ on the water front! I was like NO WAY thats tops! We paid 60Euros for the whole trip and usally one twin room would cost like well 90Euros I was like wow...over the moon at this point...I was more then tired...I was turing hyperactive...then when I got on the bus to go to our First city-Vetribo I was like eh...sleep! This is at the City of Viterbo! The tower probley had some significance but it jsut lokked really cool! It has banding at the top and I was like hey wow. We had an hour or two to look around the city and have some food! It was cool we got some tacky sandwhiches...and walked aorund the city! It was a beautifuls city.






After the 2 hours or so we had a guided tour of the city. It was cool but how ever i didn't understnd much and was concentrating more on the fact she had lipstick on her teeth and really wasn't listneing to anything she was saying. But none the less we went to the other side of the city and saw all cool old stuff! LOL

This was inside a museum. The ENTIRE ROOM was covered in these frescoes! I wa slike wow...have alot of photos unfortunalty none of which are really all that crash hot...but hey I was like wow...
These are some old buildings somewhere!
This was in the courtyard below. There were alot of them around. sculptures of people on benches I was kinda impressed they were really old and if you could see them like in their hey day wow. that would be cool!

Random Piazza...led to the other places we were about to go to! LOL
reminds me of the whole Romeo and Juliet thing LOL
I think the fountain looks strangley weird...


Femke and myself after...2 hours of sleep, 9hours of traveling...and well half a day of walking...
and the same for Eduardo and Michel
This is the Hiar dryer of the hotel LOL it's cool! LOL was weird though never used it...i dont' se hair drers anyway...so you know thats life...
This is the morning after at around 9am! This guy was FLY FISHING this was for dad cause well he fly fshes and reminded me of him!
Yip me after a great nights sleep in a VERY VERY COMFY bed! LOL and after a weird breakfast of strange...packet toast...that was weird...owever hte jam was good! I have some jam!

Some church somewhere!
Unleaded petrol in Italia...translates literally to sensored Lead.
This is the Dying Citty. only 50 people live here and it's name comes for the constant errosion it has. It used to be wider how ever an earthquake broke half of it off...bummer!! There is only one way to get there and thats via the path you kinda can't see...and yeah! The surrounds are truely amazing! Itsweird how this city just stands there in the midst of it all!!

This is the main church of Bolsena. It's kinda cool inside. This is where a miricale happened where a priest was sceptical of the power of the Lord and decided to hold a mass. As he was breaking the bread blood began to drip and there are the stones...well floor of where the blood had dropped. I was like wow cool!

This was hte city of Oriveto...or somehting like that. It's set on hill as seen above and yeah it's got alot OF AWSOME stuff!! I was liek wow...especially the food! The edge...How can this...
Turn into this....

This is the begingin of our great Lunch! OH YEAH!! Ice-cream...one of the 3 i had whilst on this trip, a pizza, and a BRILLIANT Panini-Sandwhich! AHHHHH Bliss!!!

I really had an awsome time on this trip wish i had slept more but yeah. For i think a total of 80-100 Euro's i had a trip which would have cost me well over 200Euro's!! It's amazing!! was awsome!!!

HAve a good one

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