ho ritorno (anche) con lexy

sorry for the lack of updates. I did not have the oppurtunity to update from pisciotta, because access to the internet has strict time limits on acount of the number of students. i miss pisciotta already, as do, of course the girls. I have returned, and already left. Jamie is lucky to be able to live there for a while.

So, a quick summary of the more memorable moments.
chicken fighting domenico e gianluca.
gianluca in general.
the beach
drinking absinthe with lexy sam and rachel (70 percent alcohol) and not having that be the drunkest night of the trip (burns worse than listerine....)
the roof
the girls friends
dinner and party at the apartment
luigi li gato eating an ice cream cone. (i have pictures to prove it.)

So we left pisciotta on sunday morning and spent a few days in roma with the group. roma was great, but i did alot of the same stuff i did last time, since i was with the same program. i also got the unfortunate news that young girl many of us were aqcuanted with, a friends e girlfriend, died of a drug overdose several nights ago. i think she had just graduated highschool. its very upsetting in a lot of ways. i hope that at least my other friends and acquantances will take this as a wake up call. at the same time, traveling here and seeing a continent living in the shadow of 2 great wars, and eastern europe in the more imediate wake of the communist bloc and the wars in the balkans, it seems so overblown when we get worked up over the young dying in suburban america. it is, of course, tragic, but so is life. in the states, we have this illusion that the universe is a moral place, and that were gaurenteed long lives simply for being alive. whole generations in europe have had there lives shattered by war after war. is it any wonder there are so many pacifists?

This morning, rachel sam lexy and i all left the group, sam and rachel to venezia, and lexy and me to siena, where we are now. were very tired and have yet to meet up with lexys friends here.

ok, i apologize for my lack of updates and poorly written updates, not to mention spelling and typographical errors. the keyboards change slightly from country to country and i dont have time to find the apostrphe.

this blog has served its purpose for my travels and keeping in touch, but unforunatly i have not been able to keep up quality entries. when i get back i will upload pictures and right out longer, more analytic entries based on my journal entries i write on the road. ill be in siena for about a week, and then i head to nice, paris, brussels, and finally fly home from london. im looking forward to traveling on my own, but also to getting home. i miss being able to play guitar, record, read, shower at my leisure, and just not live out of a backpack. i also cant wait to do it again next year. perhaps ill have a job by then. ok, more updates soon. namaste!