Fiesole!

Today several girls from our program decided to go to a town called Fiesole right outside of Florence for the day. It is a town on a mountain and it has a few museums and ancient ruins of the Etruscan civilization. We took the public bus to get there and it took only 20 min! Once we got there, we didn't really know where to walk so we just started heading up hill and it we got the most amazing view of Florence. It was the only view where the Duomo looks absolutely tiny! We sat on the ledge and just enjoyed the beautiful view for a while. Then we decided to get some lunch around the area. Casey brought delicious kiwis. We just sat in an open area and had kiwis and beer. It was such a relaxing time and it was so warm and sunny. We weren't running around from museum to museum to church for once. It was great just to sit around and do absolutely nothing. We walked around some more and then I suggested that we stay and watch the sunset in the mountains. A few girls went home but Casey, Jenah, Gina, Sarah, and Lauren stayed for the sunset. We were sitting on the ledge for about two hours drinking wine (wow, that really does'nt sound very safe, but we were very careful don't worry!) and waiting for the sun to go down. We had such an incredible, relaxing time there.

We took the bus back, and all paid for our ride. As we were riding we saw some of the Italians on the bus starting to panic and take out their bus passes. At first I didn't know what was going on but then I realized that there was an undercover cop checking people's tickets randomly. Then he came up to me and Jenah and asked her for her ticket. She showed it to him and he started yelling at her in Italian. She paid for the bus so there shouldn't have been a problem. But he continued yelling, and she kept telling him that she doesn't speak Italian. We had no clue what was going on. THen he took out his notepad and started writing something down so Jenah freaked out and started yelling that she didn't do anything wrong. I wish there was someone on the bus who could translate what that cop was yelling about...he probably just hates Americans and was just yelling for no reason. Then he just took Jenah's bus ticket and ripped it in half. We were all shocked and on the next stop we just all got off the bus. We had no clue where we were. It was all the way on the other side of Florence, but we were too scared to take another bus so we decided to walk. It took us like 45 min to walk to our street and we went to a really good pizza place right next to us.