Friday we had to get up early to get to the train station in time for our train to Milan. We left the campground around 7 in the morning and made it to the train station in plenty of time. Our train to Milan was about four hours and we were in a compartment with 4 other people. One of them was from the US, she goes to NC State. We talked with her for a while, and she’s taken Italian 101 and 102, and is currently in a summer language program in Italy (like ours in France) so she would include one of the other men in our car in our conversation. And he spoke a little French too so that was fun! Even though we had gotten about four hours of sleep the night before I couldn’t fall asleep so I just wrote in my journal, I haven’t been as good about keeping up with that. It’s hard to do this blog and my journal, and then when I email Matt it’s the third time I’ve gone through what’s been going on, it’s just too time consuming to do all three. When we arrived in Milan Esmeralda’s friend Arnold was waiting for us. We had gone out to eat with him the first time we were in Milan. Esmeralda was on vacation so he was our guide. And he brought his friend Carolina too, she grew up in Milan so it was cool to be with her for the day. We first took showers and then we went to Carolina’s house to relax. She still lives at home with her family, we got to meet her mom. They were both SO welcoming. Carolina made us pasta and salad, she was glad to show us the way pasta is supposed to be. She’s been to the US and says that we don’t do it right. Everything was delicious. And then in the middle of the afternoon she made us Italian coffee, I loved it! We relaxed some more in her air conditioned living room and it was fun to just talk to her and Arnold. They’re both really nice. We went to see a couple more churches on our way to dinner. There are SO many churches in Italy! And they’re so beautiful. After that we went to happy hour at a different place than the other time. It was good, but there wasn’t as much pasta in the buffet…Anna and I were disappointed. We took our time there, and again enjoyed talking to Arnold and Carolina some more. After that we walked through a different part of Milan. It was nice to be with Carolina who grew up there because she would show us different hidden places, while Esmeralda did a good job showing us what tourists “need” to see in Milan. We got the best of both worlds! We took our time walking through various side streets, we went back to the duomo after dark, and she showed us an area the was an ancient marketplace, now there was a giant book vendor set up there. We sat and listened to a man playing the saxophone on the street for a while and then went to get our last gelato. We soaked up Milan a little more and then headed back to go to bed; our train was at 6:40AM the next day!
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