Arriverderci, Perugia! Ciao, Roma!

And so Wednesday night was my last night in Perugia. It was really depressing, and I already miss it so much, but honestly, it was one of the best nights of my trip. After dinner at the house, with most of my stuff packed already, a few of us went out to La Tana to meet up with a few of our non-VCU friends: Adrian, Gabi, Breck, Janill, Jen, and some other New Yorkers. We knew that we had to be outside for our taxi to the train station at 6:15 the next morning, so we didn't plan to stay out long.

I got bored at La Tana, as usual, and many of our friends were running mad late, so Adrian and I bailed to walk to the center of town. We never made it, however. We stopped in a club with a decent crowd hanging around, and it was poppin', so we texted people and most of them showed up a bit later, including some of the late New Yorkers. We danced until it closed at 2 AM, and then went to Domus, the late-hours discoteca, which I hadn't even been to yet. It was so much fun. While some people filtered out between 2 and 5, the last of us left as the club closed, wandering slowly home. Saying goodbye to everyone was so hard. In the end, Eddie, Chelsea, Gabi, and I stood for a good thirty minutes talking to the remaining New York kids (Kate, Cesar, and some guy whose name I don't even know). I'm going to miss everyone so much. But I'm already hoping to see a few of them in New York when I get home from Italy.

I've been in Rome 3 days now. The first day, running on zero sleep (we successfully made it home just in time to finish throwing our stuff together), we took an insane tour, walked who-knows-how-long, and saw all kinds of cool stuff, like the Colosseum, etc. I took tons of pictures. I loved most of all seeing this monument, il Vittoriano, which many Romans call "the wedding cake" because of its appearance, and Palazzo Venezia, where Mussolini worked. We even saw the balcony from which he gave his speeches. In total that day, we walked I think 9 and a half hours. After dinner, 5 or 6 of us went to see la Fontana di Trevi at night. It was incredible.

The second day, we saw the Vatican, which wasn't particularly important to me, and a lot of other stuff. There's honestly just too many places to list them all right now. That night, we hung out at the hotel.

Today, everyone but Eddie, Chelsea, and I flew home. Cinzia and Riccardo woke us at 8:30 and told us they were leaving, and I honestly felt my heart sink. I feel lost and alone and a bit terrified, to be quite honest. And so Eddie flies out tomorrow morning, and Chelsea's mom is meeting her and she's leaving tomorrow morning, and I'm going to be completely alone. And I am so terrified and so unprepared. I don't even know if I can do this, and I'm having mood swings during which I don't even want to. Travel is so tiring. I really, really, really, more than anything, just want to get up in the morning and go back to Perugia.

But I can't call Perugia home anymore...