Update

ciao bella!
i am having such a great time in italy. rimini was amazing. i guess it rained the couple days before the tourny, but was blue skys and sun the whole time we played. the hostel i stayed in was about 8 blocks from the beach and fields. i stayed in a room with three of my other teammates and we had our own bathroom with a shower. the schedule for the games was sweet too. games were friday, saturday, sunday, and one game monday then everyone watched the finals in a make shift stadium. it really was like watching a professional sport! each day the earliest the games started was 11am and we only had to play three games a day, which meant a lot of watching other games and freestylers. it was also wonderful because the party everynight went to at least 4am and there was no way i was going to get up and play at 8am, which is normal tourni game time in the states, and still function.

right now this is my third day in florence. i am writing this in the middle of my trip because i was headed to pisa as a day trip today, but all trains are cancelled due to a worker strike. hmf, i guess it wasnt meant to be. i am also not using any capital letters or punctuation in this entry because those too are making my life more difficult than it has to be. anyway, i dig florence, but there are so many frickin tourists and im kind of tired of being in cities. last night and tonight i am staying with a couchsurfer named massimo. he is extremely nice and has a huge, beautiful house about 30 minutes north of florence. he has 3 dogs and 2 cats and is crazy about his animals. last night we went for dinner in florence, which was amazing by the way, and he couldnt stop talking about them. anyway, tonight we are going to a couch surfing meet up with a bunch of the local surfurs in florence and tomorrow i am off to cinque terre. cinque terre is a beach town northwest of florence and is supposed to be absolutely amazing. ill write more about the tourny, my other travels and of course the food later. i still dont have a ticket back to paris, but that will all come in time...

ciao!