time keeps on slipping...

 finals week is upon us here in italy.

its crazy and wonderful how short our semester is cut here (you have to get a visa if you stay in an EU country longer than 90 days... so BYU made our program 86 days to sidestep the hassle of us having to obtaining a visa).  

so for me, that means a week and a half of post-program travel time and the longest christmas break that i have had since i was in preschool.  i really couldn't be more happy about it.

here is my schedule for the next few weeks:

monday: hum201 research paper due.  review session for hum201
tuesday: cooking class.  final cooking course paper due.
wednesday: review session for italian.  final exam for hum201. final exam for hum 280R
thursday: final exam for italian.  cook an american thanksgiving dinner in italy.  last day in siena.
friday: leave siena early in the morning and go to venice, stop at palladian villa on the way there

saturday: museums and church visits in venice.  last day of the program.
sunday:  meet up with my mom and my brother will in venice :)

~travel with them!  venice, rome, and paris.  possible day trip to florence while we are in rome.

sunday: mom and will fly home. i fly to sweden, meet up with my friend maggie. stay with friends in stockholm.
thursday: fly home! home sweet home.

so, though i plan on updating here and there over the next three weeks, if i go MIA for a while... that is why.  maybe i'll see if i can get some people to do some guest posting if the crickets start chirping too loud over here.


i still plan on sharing photos from all of the places that we have traveled here, though, so stay tuned over then next month or two for those!  some fun videos will be on the rise as well, including one crazy one from a soccer game that we went to this weekend.  IT WAS AWESOME.

and... at this point, i might as well leave you with a few more links, right? 

• if you are at all into fashion, style, photography, or just good humor, please read garance dore's blog.  she is so funny.  

• if you ever are going to want an idea or inspiration for nearly anything, you should get into pinterest if you aren't already. let me know if you need an invite.  its a gold mine of creative ideas.  you can see my boards here. 

• i'm obsessed with hailey haugen and her brother/sister-owned company, haugen creative.  i've spent in inordinate amount of time watching her vimeo videos. 

• i know i've talked about him before, but i'll say it again: seth godin is such an interesting, smart man. see what i mean by reading his blog.  you especially need to do this if you are interested in business, marketing, advertising, progressive thinking, or creativity.  so many good things to think about and apply to daily living, even.

ok, i'm off to write papers.  ciao my friends!!