Easter Holiday

I don't have a very creative title for you right now. I apologize for that. I slept for about 4 hours last night, preparing for a presentation that I gave around 10:30 this morning. I was pretty nervous. I looked down quite a bit, my legs were crossed, I was doing crazy arm gestures and my voice was nervous and probably uneven. But it's over and it was 20% of my grade. This was for history. It was over science, basically between 1650-1700, but honestly the stuff before it was a bit more interesting. I got my paper back from that class today as well and I did well, so I don't have to write the next one if I don't want to because only one counts.

My Easter Holiday was 2 weeks. Long.
I think I will split it up into about eight sections so it may take more than a week to write about.

For this post, I don't have access to photos right now (they're in my dorm room, and I don't want to walk back down that hill and then walk back up in two hours in the rain, because it is supposed to rain later today as well), so I think I will just give a summary of what I might talk about in each post.

1. Venice
 Churches, acqua alta, canals everywhere, first gelato experience, salmon penne, the cork that wouldn't come off, and meeting up with my sisters
2. Florence
 David, Medici's, leather, The Arno, Duomo di Firenze, "individual pizzas", Ponte Vecchio, The Uffizi
3. Tuscany and Cinque Terre
 Cheesy Pictures, frustrations with lack of payphones, steps and hills, wine, towers, more gelato, some sunshine, zebra cathedral
4. Rome
 Crowds, easter, the Vatican, the Colisseum, the Forum, the metro, Mama Angela's, the cappuchins and their decorative bones
5. Salzburg
 Festung Hohensalzburg, Mozart, Sound of Music, Walking everywhere and along the river, cloudy, Mirabell
6. Innsbruck (with a section on Bologna)
 The hostel without locks, the Alps, the colorful houses, lack of information on hiking trails, alpenzoo, the alps, the alps, the alps
7. Munich
 Dachau memorial, sausage traditions, Augustiner's, Hofbrauhaus, expensive but safe, Bavaria, pretzels, BEER, Rauthus-Glockenspiel
8. Fussen
 Hohenschwangau, Neuschwanstein, ridiculous fog, horse-drawn carriages, UNO with a danish couple, tourists everywhere, Found american students!, stein souvenir, getting back home

I was a bit glad to get back "home" to people I knew and sleep in my own bed. I actually did miss England a bit. I wasn't quite expecting that. It's also nice that it's a bit warmer out now than when I left. Spring is coming, however slowly.