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From Abroad

We took our first field trip yesterday (probably my first since crappy junior high ones, THANKS WOODROW WILSON HIGH SCHOOL + NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND FOR LEAVING SOMETHING TO BE DESIRED IN MY CULTURAL EDUCATION). Anyway, I didn’t really know what to expect, I had never heard of either Monteriggioni or San Gimignano before but luckily they kind of told us about them before the trip. You can read about them by clicking the hyperlinks because I lack the time to elaborate more.

I realized shortly before the trip that my camera was DEAD. I am not used to my camera quite yet, I’ve only had it a couple months and haven’t done too much serious picture taking yet, despite a couple Morgantown outings and one day in Charleston with my best friend, so I am used to my old Kodak with AA batteries. Anyway, Apple has blessed the iPhone with a wonderful camera, so some pictures came out very well, despite the lack of a zoom feature.

An aside on my iPhone: It works in Italy, which is really cool. I am holding off on my habitual texting, which is SOOOO hard and SOOOO tempting. It is free for me to receive messages (TEXT AWAY, I will reply on Facebook :) ) but costs 50 cents to send one! But anyway, last night my roommates and I were in front of our school and I pulled out my phone to text my friend to get on AIM and they told me they don’t have the iPhone in Italy, which is what my grandmother told me before I left. So I have the IT-phone of multiple countries! (Let’s not talk about the new iPhone in 9 days, it only depresses me.)

Here are some photos. Enjoy!

Monteriggioni: (we climbed up a tower to see some stuff, tickets are 1,50 euro)

Me on the wall (my bangs look crazy from the wind! Tuscany is behind me)