20 things I have learned while being here

With only 15 DAYS LEFT HERE, I'm starting to freak out about coming home! Obviously I haven't kept up with this blog very well because, well thats just me, but in the middle of my trip I did start to get a little homesick. Now that my time here is coming to an end, I am sooo weirded out to be going home. It's such an odd feeling... like I am excited but also not at all haha. The experiences that I have had here have been so amazing that I feel like I'm just going to be pessimistic about going to lame bars at U of A. But I guess that's all a mindset and knowing myself I have fun wherever I go so I'm sure I'll be fine haha:) And it is my last semester of my senior year so it's bound to be crazy haha.

Anyways, today I did have a little FOMO seeing the Snapchats of the last tailgates of the year. I usually don't really watch them/ just click through them really quickly because I find that watching what other people are doing really has no relevance to me and it only makes me feel like I'm missing out (and why would I do that to myself?) but today was a LAZY lazy Sunday in Orvieto so I decided to watch all of my Snapchats (along with 3 episodes of Suits, writing a paper for finals, and now writing in this blog because I'm tired of watching suits) and thus resulting in FOMO. I seriously believe social media does nothing but make people miserable and will be the downfall of humanity... but I still participate in it haha... Why? I guess because I don't take it that seriously and know it's not real and like to post things that I like.

Well this trip has really opened my eyes to a lot of things/ heavily reinforced things I already knew:

1.  I am not as good at public transit as I thought I would be
2. People in Europe can be just as grumpy as people in America can be and your happiness is so much based on your mentality on life.
3. Time is perspective: A minute can go by so slowly when waiting for a train but so quickly when your taking a timed test. Obviously already knew this one but traveling really puts it into perspective. 10 minutes before a train can actually be a lot of time and I did not need to be freaking out as much as I have. ha ha.
4. Even though the food is not GMO and doesn't have all the chemicals it does in America and it supposedly "healthier", eating pizza 5 days out of the week will still make you gain weight... :(
5. People don't exactly care that your abroad (they are just busy with their own lives) and I'm surprised if you're reading this
6. Italians are really really persistent and I am too nice and shouldn't give out my number to anyone.
7. I should have learned Italian while I was here but instead have embraced the stereotype of being an ignorant American... sorry America for letting you down
8. Ryanair sucks and is a gypsy
9. Beds in Europe are hard
10. Life is seriously so much of what you make it and having a positive mindset about any and everything will change your life tremendously
11. People look at you funny when you dye your hair an odd color
12. Reading is good for you and everyone should read more and watch more documentaries
13. I know nothing about politics and should refrain from trying to speak to people about them before I know what I'm talking about
14. Pizza is life
15. Coffee is great
16. I miss my dog more than some of the people I know at U of A
17. What is this even a list of anymore? Idk. Tt was supposed to be things I've learned but whatever I think I'm going to be done now
18. Props to whoever actually read any of this
19. American's rely too much on WiFi and we can't survive without it
20. I only wrote 2 more on this list because I wanted it to be an even number of 20. OCD? Possibly.

BUONA SERA

Some picture I took (I think in Assisi) that I thought I'd throw in here