Italy, here I come!

It's Wednesday which means at 11pm, most of Harlaxton's students will be taking a shuttle to the airport to catch flights back to America. The rest of us will be waking up before 5am to check out and go to an airport to catch a flight to Italy.

As of right now, I just finished my British Studies final. My hand hurts, among many other things. Last night while attempting to sign a pole (Harlaxton students always sign poles throughout the manor, making their mark on the school), I fell off a 6 foot step right on my butt and smacked my head against a wall. Talk about painful...and right at the end of Harlaxton! Not great timing... I had to find an ice pack and everyone made sure I stayed awake for a while to make sure I didn't have a concussion.

Other than a rather sore bum and neck, I'm doing okay. I had to sit on a fleece jacket during my final exam though. On top of that, this morning I dropped my keys in the toilet, and stuck my entire thumb in butter. Gahhhh, not a good way to start the day! Hopefully my test went a little better than that. Who knows. I'm just glad I'm finished!

My last week in England has been rather relaxing. The Family Christmas on Saturday was pretty good. We had a fairly decent dinner, then sang Christmas carols in the Great Hall. After we did that, we walked around to 3 houses in Harlaxton Village and sang the same songs. My feet were killing me because I was in big boots, but that's beside the point! One of the ladies baked us cookies which was very nice of her.

After we walked around the village, Jess, Meg, Daniel, Merrissa and myself went to the Greg for the last time. I had Bacardi and Lime..my favorite!! Then Daniel proceeded to steal a Strongbow glass for me because it looked cool. When we walked abck to the Manor, we decided to hang out in the Great Hall by the Christmas tree. We weren't the only ones in there. So we sat and chatted for a little while. It was fun, chatting and being goofy (not that we don't do that on a daily basis).

On Monday we had our date with the Brads (since we bought them at the date auction). So, we all went to this Chinese place called China 88, and ate buffet. It was really good too. Everyone ordered a drink, I got a mango blast, which was fabulous while everyone else basically got strawberry daquiris (sp?). After we ate, sang to american music, and made fun of each other, we headed over to the Goose, for one last time! Adrienne, Meghan and I shared a small pitcher of a drink called Woo Woo...which is a fruity drink that we like. Then we headed back to the manor. Me and jess stayed up and played cards and talked a little bit but then went to bed.

Tuesday was full of studying and doing nothing.

And now it's today! Jess and I are about to walk around the manor, taking pictures to remember everything. We're sad to be leaving...but we want to make sure we don't forget what it looks like! Tonight the British professors are serving us a late night breakfast at 9, so that will be fun! I think I'm going to harrass them when i'm back in the states, and send them cards, hehe. Think thats a good idea? hehe

Sorry this is such a short blog and kind of filled with pointless information. But I have 10 days til i'm coming home, and those days will be spent in the wonderful country of Italy! 3 days in Rome, 3 days in Florence, and 2 days in Venice. Then home, sweet home.
Hope everyone is doing well! I'll try to break the Italy blogs apart by city, so it doesn't become too long :)
Love you!
See you soon!

ps...Marshall, i know my writing isn't grammatically correct, as well as my spelling, but right now England doesn't care! Hehe!! :) Miss you!