I am a terrible blogger

So I am sure most of you have given up on checking this thing for updates, but I am going to try to revitilize it a bit. 

A quick recap of my time since Greece. 

-Mom and sisters visit and travel to Florence for the weekend: great food is eaten, trains are almost missed, and beautiful renaissance art is all around. I won't write much because primarily its my family who reads this and they've heard all there is to hear on this trip im assuming.

-The following weekend was Stockholm with my perfect travel companion Ms. Flak. It was an awesome, relaxed weekend. Stockholm is so different from Medditeranean Europe. So much cleaner than Rome, everyone speaks perfect English, much less traditional, more globalized, chains galore (we got pizza hut pizza one night, then got drinks next door at a 7 11!), much stricter alcohol policies (similar to Canada). But it is absolutely beautiful. Its made up of 14 or so islands, and water is everywhere. It is much smaller than I thought, but just as artsy as I imagined. We went to this awesome club sat. night under a bridge where they played the best music ive never heard of. We also went to the big park island and had a delicious meal at an organic farm there, very cool. The only bummer was that my friend amy who was there that weekend lost her passport and thus had some complications.

-Since stockholm ive been laying low in Rome. Last weekend sarah and the whole au program was in Rome so I spent the majority of the weekend with her and matt. It was kind of surreal that the three of us were all in Rome together, and it was a lot of fun. We went out one night to one of Rome's centri sociali--an underground squatted 'social center'. A lot of my research involves these semi-legal establishments. We saw a reggae show there--very very cool and gritty. 

-This weekend I actually had a lot of fun. I finished a rough draft of my research paper, so a little stress was taken off. I went out for a great meal friday, went exploring all day saturday to the catacombs, jewish ghetto and trastevere, and then went out again last night. I finally found a bar in Rome that plays good music, called Radio, and went there both nights this weekend. A lot of kids stayed in Rome this weekend so there was a lot of people to go out with.

OOOK well the next three days will be a nightmare full of presentations and papers so I need to get going. A fun thanksgiving/birthday awaits in Madrid!

A presto,

Connor