I’m here…yup, after 23hours of being in transit- whether it be car, plane, shuttle, train or my good ole legs, I have arrived safely to Castilion Fiorentino (CF).
Getting from the train station to Castilion was quite a hassle…I think all 6 of us who luckily found each other deserve a lot of credit. Ok.. let me back up a bit…First off I was lucky enough to have Becky, student on my flight to Rome with me and by chance she was situated in the row right in front of me, this made for a nice transition into the group when we finally met up, she knew a couple of other students. Anyway after we made it off the plane through the LONG line of customs for the guy to literally throw my passport back at me (without even a stamp!!!) we then some how found our luggage theta was off to the side, walked miles through the airport to the train station and luckily found four other people...yippee! WE then boarded a train form the airport to the main train station in Rome. 30mins later we got off the train walked a good while, again and bought new tickets for a new train to CF. We almost missed this train for we were suppose to meet up with Art history teacher Ann…but we didn’t see her so we made an executive decision, get on the train not wait 2hours for the next one. 2 LONG hours later, hours that I didn’t sleep because I was so worried we would miss the stop cause everyone else was sleeping…we drug our luggage off the train to finally arrive at CF.
After a quick drive up a hill…I would have died at this point if I had had to move my luggage once more…WE walked into our new home. This place is amazing...after seeing our spacious rooms, each with own dresser (yeah no living out of suitcase) we who were the first to arrive...took to the town on our own. We made our way up the narrow streets to a park and ate lunch in a local bar. We all sat in awe of the amazing view we had as we drank our water and beer and ate our lunch. CF sits on top of a huge hill over looking a valley of homes and greenery. Pictures can’t even do it justice! Aweee!! After eating and realizing we had to move or we would all pass out four of us hit the town to explore. The town consists of tons of little roads connection here and there, with amazing colors of yellow, brown and gray. The stone is crumbing here and there but it has such a romantic quality about it…After we made it back to the school Santa Charia we were given an official tour with the rest of the crew that finally showed up, we had basically done this already…haha we’re so smart! J
Anyway we finally had dinner at 730…we were all dying after a great meal of pasta, meat and fruit for desert we are now all in the court yard (were I hope to spend a lot of my time) talking and here I am typing my thoughts… I can hear Tuscan church bells ringing in the background and Italian being yelled by the local soccer teams from the huge stadium I can see from were I sit on the steps.
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