I'm DONE!!!!

I feel like another finals week has come to an end. This morning we all turned in all of our paintings, in my case that was 6 oils, 12 watercolors and 1 sketchbook... whew! I am so glad to be done. To celebrate we went into Florence today for the last time. Tomorrow we start cleaning and packing up to leave... yay for seeing family again! It will defiantly be bitter-sweet because we are all so excited to go home, but at the same time we have forgotten how hard it will be to leave our family community here. We all have developed friendships and relationships that will continue far beyond this trip. I have been so blessed to be apart of this group. God gave us a group that so easily meshed in the beginning and only formed closer relationships as we got further into the trip, its been really amazing!

After an amazing mexican pileup dinner and cobbler, we had a sweet art study abroad, mandatory talent show... it was so cool! we were not allowed to do any performing or visual arts. we had a very diverse, funny group of great people. there were a lot of great and very entertaining acts. we had a blast!!! it lasted for over 2 hours and was soooo worth it! it ended in a great slideshow and it felt like the end of camp:) this great picture ended up in the show... i have NO idea how they got it, but its pretty funny and theres a story:)... so when we fist got to Rome, the teachers decided that even though it was 97 degrees with 80% humidity, it would be a good idea to walk all over the city, WITH our luggage to see some churches. i was hot, i smelled and i felt like a pack-mule!