You can look all over...

'But you'll never find hot shit like mine, oh it blows your mind.'

Kid Cudi's song while sounding mildly vulgar kind of embodies how I feel about Italy right now. It's maybe a more modern approach but I do agree. This city is blowing my mind every direction I turn, every word I speak, every new person I encounter. I'm trying to open my mind to new ways of thinking and new life. It's hard to sometimes want to go out into the city and explore, especially when we are tired on weekends but we do it anyways. We push ourselves into territories which are new, unfamiliar and sometimes a little scary. But the benefits are beyond reason, we grow as people and we see new cultures that change our perspectives.

SO all this leads me to quickly summarizing my weekend. We went to the museum yesterday called the Uffici. The Uffici includes the painting entitled "The birth of Venus" by Botacelli. This painting is just sitting in one of the galleries, I turned around.. and opened my eyes. It was insane, to see one of the most famous works in person and be abel to appreciate it. We bought a pass that allows us to go into most of the museums in Florence for free now, we can go whenever we want, whenever our heart desires and stare at beautiful paintings and skills.

The galleries did take a while to go through but they were worth it. Luckily my friend knows a ton about art and is taking art classes so she could educate us on a lot of the details of the paintings that was nice so that we got to understand deeper what we were looking at. Sometimes I get tired of staring at religious images, painted in gold that to me have no significance. I know they are pretty and outstanding, but why is Jesus imaged as an older man in a baby's body? I know now, it's because he was wise and they did not have perspective of how to make a man into a young image! I learned so much already.

Well, today we are doing homework and going to the Boboli gardens. It's a pretty calm day in Florence, we are all pretty tired for the first five day week last week. As much of a joke as that sounds it's not, we travel a lot, do a lot and try to enjoy our time here. We all get super exhausted because we are going all the time, it's nice to take a step back and be able to see everything from a calm perspective.

I think I'm growing up in this country.

Ciao :]