Today was a great day! First of all, class went by super fast. Afterwards I was in the kitchen cooking lunch and a super cute Austrian came in to introduce himself--his name is Clarence--we talked for the entire 20 minutes I was cooking. Haha, and as we talked, he sat at the kitchen table and rolled his own cigarettes--that's definitely something I've never seen before. By the way, EVERYONE smokes here! Yesterday I walked past the rec center and saw a huge group of people taking an exercise break so that they could smoke their cigarettes.

Anyways, a little later I was in the hall and ran into Clarence. He asked if I wanted to go with him and his friends to the lake! SO, at 3:00 me, Natalie, and like 7 of his friends all walked there and just sat on the dock and talked for a while. One kid brought a guitar and was singing "Sweet Home Alabama." Gosh that was hilarious.

We went home, and then he came in and asked if we wanted to hang out with him tonight! Gosh, HOW EXCITING! Anyway....by that time Natalie and I were craving chocolate like you wouldn’t believe. So, we went to the grocery store and got a few things (I got some mock Twix bars!), and now we are getting ready to hang out with Clarence.

OH YA! …when I was at the market, I saw Alberto, and he said Marcus wanted to know what I was doing tonight! So, hopefully I end up seeing him tonight too! :)

Tomorrow I'm off to Venice! I'm beyond excited!

This is the stream that runs along side the path I run on. I'm standing right across the street from where I live. Isn't this GORGEOUS???

This is the view from the dock. ...Andrea, it's quite hard to see in this picture, but the cross is on the very left mountain at the very top.

This is Clarence and a few of the other ones that were with us.

HAHA! This man randomly decided to go for a dip. AND LET ME TELL YOU, IT WAS COLD!

As the sun was setting tonight. .....right over the mountains to the left is where Italy is!