...Trieste?

Ciao! Last weekend the other exchange students and I took our second trip to the city of Trieste. Trieste is a very big city with a university. For those who don't know Italy geography very well, Trieste is in the north east of Italy and borders Slovenia. Four of the exchange students from our district live there, so we stayed at their houses and the house of a Rotex member. The whole weekend was kind of bad for me. I have to start this story about a week before we actually went to Trieste because that's when it all started. So they told us we had the opportunity to go to Trieste to watch Barcolana, but they told us absolutely no information about it. No one knew how we were supposed to get there or when. So we started trying to plan our train ourselves, but it was just disastrous. Everyone just wanted to do what was easiest for them and not meet up somewhere in the middle, but that didn't work for those of us who live alone, because we had to travel with someone else. So after battling each other all week about who was going to take what train, the Rotary people finally told us what trains we would all take. Since I live alone in Bassano, my host mom drove we about thirty minutes to Vicenza where three of the other students live so I could take the train with them. When we got to the station We found Anika and Brock's dad, but no Brock. So we thought he was waiting on the platform for us. So as we walked to our train I saw Brock getting on a different train and not ours. Thankfully the train he got on was going to Padova, the same place ours would stop. So when we got to Padova we waited for Brock to meet us on the train. As our train started to leave the station we saw Brock and Sarah waiting on the opposite side of the tracks getting on a different train. Thankfully that train was also going to Venice just a little later. When we get to Venice we find Maddie and Emily and decide to get some ice cream from the McDonalds in the station while we waited for Brock and Sarah.

 We had thought we had an hour before our train left, but the times were different that day so we missed our train, but Brock and Sarah got on the right one this time. Next, we checked when the next train to Trieste was and found one and ran to the tracks. When we got on the train we realized it was a first class train and almost immediately got kicked off because we didn't have to right tickets. So again we find the next train to Trieste which was only like an hour later than the train we were supposed to take. When we got on there were no seats so we just went to the last car and sat on the floor and after a few stops we finally got seats. After we had been on the train for about two hours, when we should have been in Trieste, we realized that we had gotten on a regional train that stops at every single station possible and that we weren't even half way there yet. We started freaking out because we didn't want to get in trouble for missing our train, but we called everyone and they said it was okay. So after another hour, we were the only ones left on the train and we had a little dance party in our car.

After a little over four hours we finally arrived in Trieste. We then had to walk through the crowed streets of Trieste, through the Centro, with all of our luggage to the pizzeria. We got there and ate and then we were allowed to go around the town until three in the morning. Unfortunately, I got the worst stomach I have ever had in my life. So one of the other girls sat with me at the pier. Eventually, I just couldn't take it anymore and I asked to go home around one thirty. The next day we had to wake up at about six and drive to Slovenia and board a boat where we spent the whole day on the Adriatic Sea.

 After a few hours all of us exchange students started to get sea sick and we all just kind of fell asleep. when we got off the boat we drove back to town and then had to walk all the way to the train station. We rode the train to Venice where we then switched to a much smaller train where we spent to the next hour standing in very close quarters. Finally we made it home!