"alright i'm going to despar. wish me luck - i might not have exact change .."

yo yo yo.

alrighty here's the update i know y'all have been waiting for. so last wednesday we saw the pope!! we were there at 8am for the papal audience and he came out around 10:30am and said some prayers and did some readings. we got a shout out and he acknowledged us in the audience which was so cool. and i got some awesome pictures of him passing us in the popemobile. we had great seats for that. and he waved at us! it was def pretty badass.

thursday i handed in my final midterm and finished my italian midterm and so we all decided to go out all night to celebrate the end of the week from hell. we hit up trinity college, then the drunken ship, then some other random little bar in campo dei fiori and i can't remember the name of it, and finally we ended up at scholars. basically everyone in the program was out with us so it was totally awesome and so much fun. friday was a chill day because we had to prepare for our visitors!

so saturday morning we woke up at the ass crack of dawn and met mc and c unit on via ottaviano and went into st peters. i was the little tour guide for that part bc i was the only one that had been there before. we took a tour of the church then hit up a pasticceria near there and got on the metro for more touristy things. we visited the pantheon, the trevi fountain, the spanish steps, our school, and then we had lunch at l'archetto spaghetteria. yummyyyy! then ater lunch we went to piazza campidolgio and gave them a tour of the roman forum. it was really cool bc we know a lot about it and we could tell them so much about each part. then we saw the colloseo and sat around there for a while. we walked around via nazionale and then took the metro back to ottaviano and did a little shopping there. we went to the pizza place dawson took us once and we had some yummy pizza. then we headed back to mc and c unit's little hostel (lmao. i still laugh everytime i think about that) and got ready for going out. we couldnt find where silvia told us to go, so we just hit up a random pub down the block from the hostel. clarice and i had our first blowjob shots which were really yummy. we were content. then we went home and met up sunday morning for breakfast and chiaccherare. it was fun catching up and gossiping. then we took them to the train station and they went to the airport to fly back to paris.

all in all it was an awesome weekend, but i wish they could have stayed longer. but now im even more excited about paris bc we'll be there for a long time and itll be great to see them again!! and im practicing my phrase - je voudrais acheter ces chausurres!!

this week has been uneventful. class as usual, then a little shopping. i bought myself a dress to wear on my birthday, and today i bought a pair of boots to go with. i'm very excited. last night i started the birthday celebration off after we had a ridiculous birthday dinner for alessandro. he was thirty yesterday so we had lasagna, eggplant parmigiania, mozzarella di bufala, insalata, and tiramisu, on top of vino and champagna. yumminess!! nunzia's tiramisu was PHENOMENAL. im obsessed with it. anyway, after dinner i met up with some people in trastevere and we went to the chocolate bar for some chocolate shots. they were so delicious. if i had stayed there whew forget it. afterwards we found arandom bar on via moro and sat down and just chatted and hung out. it was really chill but totally fun. then we met up with some other people and ended up at scholars. all great nights end there. lol. it was def a fun night, and a great way to start off my birthday weekend!

tonight we're all going out with sylvia in ostiense to a kareoke bar and then for dancing on tables!! i'm so excited!!! and then tomorrow morning we head out to venice!! this is going to be an amazing birthday and i cant wait!!

next time i update i won't be a teenager anymore!! woop woop!

god i love my birthday. ♥

tanti baci lovers.