so i finally just had my first warm shower! i mean it wasn't hot but the trick is to take it mid day- i went after lunch. now im sitting in my top bunk researching the sicily trip with the school because i really want to go on it but only 25 people can sign up and im in class during the first 2 hours you can sign up. i want to go talk to the teacher and tell him why i want to go so bad- drop some names and places and see if he will excuse me for a bit (its worth a shot since the first class is always syllabus day anyways)

today i had my first class- i doubt it will be that hard- the teacher is from london which is appropriate since its a fashion class and she said the most important thing is speaking up in class, doing the readings and showing up. no prob...
i finally have the room pictures up. a lot of my other pictures are ones on other peoples cameras- im gonna upload their pictures to my computer later tonight because a lot of times we did group shots on just one camera to save time- the tourguides talk SO FAST!

see it way up there?
the church is up those stairs- the left statue at the base of the steps is an original and his sister on the right is a remake- she didnt survive the bombing

yesterdays day trip to montecassino was incredible! this monastery was way on top of this hill- which i did not like the drive but it was sooo worth it we got to sit in on the 4 pm vespers in this massive and ornate church. this monastery had been bombed during wwII so most of it was rebuilt but a lot of the underground areas were original as well as this one statue of a saint. this weekend will probably be a lot of the stuff dad and i did- many people still havent seen downtown and ill just go again because i cant see it enough really.
i have another class in an hour- im gonna go find the library i heard its pretty nice - talk to you soon
love you!
my top bunk!can you guess which desk is mine?