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Firenze Girono 27

In the afternoon, the girls from my class and I went to IKEA for a little shopping and lunch. As the regular food (the meatballs etc) are quite expensive, I opted for the pizza..which wasn't that bad! Followed by the many free samples of chocolate covered cookies.

I ended up picking up a small green vase for flowers. Lately, when I am walking home I have a tendency to see flowers that I like and take them home with me, so I figured that I would replace the existing vase (tomato paste jar) with a more pleasing vessel.

In the evening, I met up with my friend Carolin to watch The Sound of Noise. It was a free showing at the Odeon in the Centre. It was a great movie and I highly recommend it! One of the actors/musicians came and talked a little about the movie and the process- it took about 7-8 years to make and they used over 23,000 sounds. It is a Swedish film but they had english subtitles. The movie below is what inspired the feature film.

Firenze Girono 15

Since it was Friday I decided to take to opportunity to relax a bit and walk around the Centre, I made my way back to LuisaViaRoma and tried on the dress (see previous post about Giambattista Valli-as I couldn't wait any longer). Lets just say it looked way better on the hanger than on. First of all it had way to much happening, I slightly felt like I has silk flowers blooming everywhere and it was awkward to even put my arms down.- you can see from my face how I felt...

We all decided to meet up for apertivo at Dolce Vita, I didn't end up staying long because I had previous plans to meet up with my roommate at another restaurant- Moyo, to celebrate a friends birthday. However we were all going to meet at this place called- the Eskimo Club after apertivo and catch the happy hour going on there.So I ended up at Moyo were I had multiple servings of their barley salad- highly recommend- and other delicious food. Then I made my way to the Eskimo Club, luckily I had ran into everyone on the way, so we all ventured together to try and find this place....well we found it......closed! There was a lock on the door and it looked like it had been closed for quite some time.....does'nt really make sense to me to market a place that is closed? But perhaps thats Italy for you :P

Just down the block there were people standing outside of a pub, so we decided to just hang out there and see what happens. We were greeted by the very friendly doorman, who ended up being our bartender in the end. As there was a large group of us, it was tough to find seating in this little place, but we managed. I turned and asked if there was any specials going on, unfortunately the happy hour had just ended but I was told that I could get a special. Slightly intrigued I agreed to this...then I was told- but you know you have to take this drink how I request you take it. Slightly scared, I once again agreed and was then given a flaming shot. Basically you had to light it on fire, shake it up, and then take a deep breath- or so that was my instructions. It was highly stressed that I needed to breathe in deeply- slightly puzzled I asked why and was told- well it could be slightly dangerous if you don't

-oh lord, I don't know what im getting myself into here-

In my mind, I wasn't sure what was going to happen, maybe I would breathe fire or something? I don't know?! So I followed the instructions and what happens is when you take a deep breath your throat feels like ice. After I took the shot I was kinda disappointed, I mean, I was expecting something crazy to happen but it was still cool none the less. Afterwards, the doorman made us drinks to test out, a mojito and his special (mix between peach and orange)- delicious! We ended up getting a round of both. I turned to him and inquired about any jobs that they might have available- he said that the owner would be there in 40mins or so and he would be the better person to ask, but he did say I could come and dj there and host an evening. I laughed because- of all people- me to dj? I thought- hhmm well ok this could work...then after I ended up going behind the bar and playing songs from my ipod. The owner showed up and we talked, he was fascinated at the fact I was from the Caribbean and he couldn't get over that I was from there. He told me to come back tomorrow night and we can talk more about it- so I might have a job! Which is great because it will give me a little extra spending money to travel and what not.

After the pub, which is called- The Joshua Tree Pub, some of us headed back to Dolce Vita. Everyone there was dancing and having a good time. Funny enough the music that they were playing reminded of 50's style music, it was something that I really wouldn't expect to be dancing to in Italy. It was great fun, and definitely a workout (from dancing so much)- I never knew that Italian people liked to dance to that kind of music, they also like to twirl you a lot too...?