Day 5

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At breakfast this morning they had this amazing hazelnut spread that was WAY better than Nutella.  I stole a pack to take home :]


After dinner we went to the national office for Crusade in Florence to get some cultural training.  The staff here is so nice and helpful.  The first thing we did at the briefing was go through God’s word.  Gary kept stressing how before I was born, God knew I would be here.  God knew since the world began that I would be here.  WOAH.  Apparently Crusade has been here since 1969 but only about 8 years ago did the stint teams start coming.  Intervarsity has some people here but not that many.  Apparently Milan has one of the best business schools… grad school anyone? Milan is also the fashion and financial capital of Italy.  Random fact: people in Florence love Jesus because “he was the first communist”. The people in Florence think Jesus was the first communist.  I personally don't nor does the group that I am with think he was. Understood?  We also learned that you can’t just generalize the people of Italy as “Italians”.  People from Florence are totally different then the Milanese.  For example, Milan is extremely conservative whereas Florentines are really liberal.  OMG and we also learned this cool thing called “squillo”.  Squillo is something that people our age do when they just want to say hello or tell you they’re leaving their house to come to yours etc. etc.  What they’ll do is call your phone and let it ring twice and hang up.  So you’ll have a bunch of missed calls!  It saves money because it doesn’t use minutes and doesn’t use text messages.  Something that was really cool for me was that at Boston University’s law program there are a lot of Milanese that go there so we could even work with these students when we go back home!   We also had a chance to practice some Italian so that was fun.  I think I’m finally starting to get the hang of it.  I’ve been really trying to speak in Italian intentionally today so that’s really helped a lot. 

After the briefing we went out to lunch and I ordered Spaghetti Carbonara.  It was yummy but I couldn’t finish it all!  Oh and in Italy you have to pay for water. LAAAAAME. 

Next, it was time to do some sightseeing!  We went straight to il Duomo.  It was SOO beautiful!!  I don’t understand how they built this place hundreds of years ago without the technology we have today and even today I don’t think anyone could build something as beautiful as il Duomo.  The painting on the dome was also breathtaking.  How could someone paint something so high up so perfectly… I just can’t wrap my head around it.  We then headed up more than 500 stairs to the top of the dome.  That was a work out!  The view from the top was gorgeous though.  MOTO BELLA!  :] 

After climbing il Duomo we headed back to the hotel to freshen up for dinner.  We went to dinner and I guess it was ok.  Kat and I split a pizza because we both weren’t that hungry and it would obviously be cheaper but no.  The waitress charged us for a second plate… and if she would have charged us 2 euro then ok I understand but she charged us both the amount for the pizza.  So basically she and I ordered a 15 euro pizza when it was 7.50 euro a pizza… SO DUMB.  Kinda ruined our night.  Then we went out for some gelato and that was alright too.  The pizza thing kinda killed our mood but whatevs. 

Buona Notte!

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