It's Friday night and I just finished packing for my first nine-day trip, which starts tomorrow. We are touring around Italy with our professor and everyone from the villa. We are going to Naples, Pompeii, Rome, and Florence during the trip. (We also have another nine-day trip later in the semester, when we go to Venice, the Veneto region, and Basel, Switzerland.) Tomorrow we leave at 6 in the morning and take a train to Naples. I am really excited to see more of Italy. Plus, I'm excited that we are apparently staying in nice hotels. I'm most excited to have a clean towel, I think. (The laundry situation here is not so good. In fact, the reason I haven't gone to bed yet is that I've been waiting for my turn with the dryer for two hours.) This week we had our second day trip, which was around the palaces of Genoa, and our first architecture review. Things were fairly low key this week because everyone got back from their different weekend trips exhausted and behind on work, but everyone is excited for our trip now. I'll definitely try my best to keep you posted during the trip!