Venezia

Venice. I was never dreaming that much about visiting Venice. Well I was never dreaming of living in Italy or learning Italian. But I'm here. So anyways, Venice was amazing. Though super crowded and the best city to get lost in a minute. Not joking. One minute and you're lost. The bridges and canals all look the same (except for the Grand Canal, of course), so many people rushing to different directions, Italians pushing you to go...yeah, the local people didn't seem polite AT ALL. I didn't get the feeling of the city so I might be coming back even before the carnival, to which I'm definitely going.

On the other hand, why am I complaining? The city itself is the prettiest city I've seen in my whole life. It takes your breath away. Churches = masterpieces. Scuola Grande Arciconfraternita di San Rocco is too amazing to be described in words. You get stunned when you come in, but when you go to the second floor is even more beautiful (word "beautiful" really doesn't sound correct in this case). Paintings of famous artists I've been learning at Art school about, the SIZE of everything... that's a bit shocking for a little Lithuanian girl like me. In a good way of course.

I've uploaded some photos from the trip. If you want to see more, not only the artistic ones, there are my facebook albums: new life and Venezia akka gelato heaven.

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well at last I'm posting here. It's been a week when I'm in Italy and what can I say...it's wonderful. I've started classes yesterday, already changed my schedule three times (lol) but everything's fine. People are amazing and I'm having sooooo much fun. Yesterday I've been sailing and kayaking, today wanted to try climbing but could only watch because of my injured hand (nothing serious) - awesome awesome awesome.

Okay, let me start from the very beginning. We left Panevėžys early in the morning, all four of us (me desperately trying not to THINK at all), on the way to the airport saw a car on fire and woohoo, none of ~7 Latvians who stopped by had a fire extiquisher so basically we rescued the poor driver who was running around the car like crazy (I mean I would be the same if my car was on fire, doh). Then superfamily drived to search for the airport. Google is a liar and the map was old so we went the wrong direction. Anyway, so finally we found the right airport and I met my Latvian co-year Nora. The flight was amazing because I saw mountains for the first time in my life. Then Ticiana picked us in the airport, Luciana in the train station and after ~3 hour long journey by train (including getting off the train with ALL the suitcases for a few times just because Italians don't speak English and everytime we asked when is Monfalcone they would say "next" -.-) we reached another bus station and got to Duino.

Duino is amazingly beatiful. For real. It's so calm, there is a super beautiful castle, cliffs, SEA, little Italian houses, porto and so on and on. My residence is the closest to the porto but it's far from school. Well that's only in Duino distances, so it would be ~6 minutes on foot. Villa Lucchese (my residence) is realy calm and nice, people are super cool and I have no regrets about getting it.

We had various events so far and on Saturday we're going to Venice. Looking forward to that!!! Since I have internet now I'm gonna post more pictures soon. Ci vediamo!