I'm officially in Florence! After long last! I was feeling ambitious enough to try taking a video and clearly had some technical difficulties along the way, but I think this take is at least viewable haha. Please forgive the poor videography. My landlady Deborah lives across the courtyard from me and she is very sweet! She's kept me stocked with groceries since I can't go out while I'm on quarantine, and she visits me in the evenings so we can watch TV together and teach each other Italian and English. I've already been on quarantine for a week now, so there's still one more week to go. I can't wait to finally go out and see the city, but it's been raining so much I'm sure it's going to be pretty different from the memories I have of summer 2018. In the meantime I spend my days in isolation and slowly lose my mind. Thankfully having a constant stream of music on helps me feel less alone, and studying takes my mind off of the fact that I don't have anything else to do haha. Somehow though, even though being lonely sucks, I can definitely tell that the rest is good for me. I've been running full speed ahead the last few months, and now I can finally let myself hold still for a bit before starting something new. It's one of the biggest transitions I've ever had to make, and I know I need to give myself the time and space to process all the emotions that are attached to it. OK that's it, I hope you enjoy the incredibly short videos below. And I promise I'll try to do a better one later at some point once I have more territory available to show off =) Post-video update: I am no longer the only resident of the apartment. Last night a new girl named Mizuki arrived from Japan, I believe she will also be a student at Scuola Toscana with me. Unfortunately she doesn't speak any English and we are both still pretty bad at Italian so we don't talk much. Apparently a man will also be staying in the downstairs bedroom for a little while, but I'm not sure when he's supposed to arrive. So much for having the space all to myself haha!
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