Great start to the week!

We had a relaxing weekend since last week was so hectic... so its was nice to stay in Florence and have no meetings or schedules. We went out on Friday night to a bar/club called Zoe. It was really neat inside and was packed. Its funny to see most of the Italians all congregated outside instead of in because every single one smokes. After we stayed there for awhile, we walked to another bar called Lochness. Not sure why it was named that, but a really cool place. It was small and completely all red inside.. Everyone was really nice there, and the bartender thankfully spoke english. He was kind and helped us out. After some dancing, we all walked home together and slept in the next day. Not much went on the rest of the weekend. We cooked dinner and just hung out.
Today was a great day though. This morning we had a workshop with a local artisit here, but who is actually orginially from Kansas, again.. great to hear some English. She took us to a science museum here in Florence, and we were very priveledged to be able to see the "skeleton room" which is not open to the public. It was fulllll of skeletons from all ages, to dino's to elephant, to creatures i couldnt even begin to spell or say. She told us to bring some sticks of different sizes, and some random things from nature, white ink, and some brown paper... not knowing what in the world we do with these things. She told us to use our found objects to paint one of the skeletons with our white ink. Then if we need some shadows, we burned our sticks to make our own charcoal. I could have spent all day working on my drawings. Ill post a picture later.
Then we all meet at a local trattoria, which means a local home cooked food restaurant, and had a great lunch with everyone. After we were all stuffed, we hoped on our bikes we rented for the day and had a tour around the river. It was absolutely amazing, even though my life felt like it was close to an end a few times. The driving around here is extremely crazy. Cars, scooters and even the bike riders fly. But once we got used to it, we were fine and i was enjoying every minute of it. We walked our bikes up to Piazza Michelangalo where the original statue of David stands. I got one of the best workouts i have gotten in awhile, but it was worth the amazzzinggg view. We could see all of Florence form the top. After some pictures, we rode the great ride downhill and headed to the grocery store to pick up some vegetables to make homeade paninis. Now we are all enjoying our internet that finally just started to work in our apartment. No more walking to local pubs to steal their wi-fi internet!
We are all heading to bed early tonight because at 7:30 am we are meeting our History teacher to take a train to Siena, which is sounth of Florence. Should be fun!
Until next time, Ciao!