20 août 2009

I totally forgot to write about our train ride from Venice to Florence! So cool.. It was the section of the train where four seats surround a table in the center and face each other. Leah and I were sitting in side-by-side tables so there were 8 of us total - a young couple from Naples, a 20-something man from Pakistan, a girl our age from Canada, a parent-age couple from Bilbao (where Leah will be studying), Leah, and me. It was the coolest thing - all 8 of us talking. English was the common language. We talked about everything - school, what we were studying, who has better pizza (Venice or Naples?), American football and European football.. so many things. It was so comforting to hear the couple from Bilbao describe to Leah what Bilbao was like and how much she is going to like it. It was just a cool hour and a half - I don't know where else I could experience that.