No Sleep til JFK

Last few hours in Milan... commence panic attacks.

Things I have learned this semester:

1. Italian

2. How to travel light

3. Hand gestures

4. Navigational skills

(not really, though, it's all Blackberry) 

5. Patience

6. How much US domestic policy sucks

7. What a real cappuccino tastes like

8. The importance of olive oil

9. How nice it is to go to school on a campus

10. That it's appropriate to stare and/or make judgmental faces at people openly

(the last one is the most important, obviously)

Really, Italia?

"Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi narrowly escaped the collapse of his government on Tuesday, winning a confidence vote in the lower house by three votes, avoiding a quick defeat but prolonging the political agony." 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/15/world/europe/15italy.html?hp

Four more!

Things I will NOT miss about Milan:
1. Rain

2. My perpetually broken-down apartment
3. The time difference

4. Bureaucracy
5. The "study" part of abroad
6. Doing my own dishes
7. Language barriers
8. The Malpensa Express

9. Waiting in line at the grocery store
10. Waiting in line at the post office

11. Waiting in line at the police station
(12. Waiting in line, I guess)

T-minus five days

Things I will miss about Milan:
1. good coffee

2. "Made in Italy"
3. piazzas
4. aperitivo
5. casual weekend jet-setting

6. real Italian food
7. movie theaters
8. Wednesdays
9. gelato

10. walking everywhere
11. tax-free life
12. Italian
13. the Duomo

14. shopping

(Totes took all of these photos from googleimages, grazie mille.)

Vinter Vonderland Vienna

Things I learned while sitting at Vienna International for an unplanned extra six hours:
1. Not much.

Je ne parle pas francais

Thanksgiving!

Just hangin' out in Paris.

"If you don't know the difference between a spoon and a ladle, you're fat." --Allison Cahoon

Copenhagen

Jeg kan godt lide København.