I think I need to learn not to blog when I'm frustrated. Sorry about that! I managed to get everything off of Alfred that I need, so no worries there :) I threw on a few (three) pictures from Rome, but I have all of my pictures on a disk, and I'm getting a bit lazy and don't want to sort through it again to get pictures, so you should check out my Facebook album. They're all there. Prague and Switzerland too. Speaking of Switzerland, I suppose I could expand on that!

Well, Switzerland was great! If you guys don't know the story here, my uncle, aunt, and cousins moved to Switzerland the week before I came to Florence. They'll be there for the next 3 years. So we decided to have a European Thanksgiving! It was a truly great idea. I took the train up on Wednesday, helped Aunt Joan cook in her new itty bitty kitchen on Thursday, then for dinner we had another American family join us, who were also in the same sort of situation. And dinner turned out great!!!! Such good food!!!! Friday Joan took me touring inside of a castle, which was great. Unlike Italian museums, we got to really crawl through this place and explore it. And they had iPods for their audio guides! Only Switzerland... Saturday we got up and went to Leysin, a small town up in the Alps to watch Henry's basketball tournament, and then to go hiking up in the Alps! It Was Gorgeous!!! Charlie and I played 'Sound of Music' on top of the mountain, and I sang all of the yodeling songs I could muster up, which is probably more than any normal person should know. Sunday they showed me around Lausanne, which is a really great town. It's built on hills, but unlike other towns I've been in that are built on hills, this one is interconnected on different levels. So there might be a street level and a bridge level, both with roads, shops, everything. So cool! Then a nice train ride home, to start studying for finals!!! Oh, and the Fiorentina vs. Alatalia soccer game. Let me just say that soccer fans are crazy!

Which brings me to now. I've finished most of them, just have art history left tomorrow. Then I'm done! That's CRAZY! It feels like I just got here! I'll stay in the villa until Saturday, when I'll go stay with a friend until the 22, when I'm going to Rome to meet up with my family!!! Christmas with the family in Rome, Venice and Florence. Amazing! Then it's off to Greece with Elizabeth!!!!!!! So poor, but so fun! Yay Europe!!!