Just plain old Milan (and trying to escape it)

Not much news to report for this week, other than the mad dash to write an essay so I can plan some travels! Updates might start becoming a little less frequent as things begin to get a bit busy over here on my end, but that doesn't mean I want to stop hearing from you!

I decided that I would reward myself for a finished essay with a trip to Paris, and so I will find out if this is going to happen tomorrow morning- fingers crossed all goes well! Originally I was going to go to both Paris and London, but when I realised that the essay was due in between the time I was going to be away, things changed and plans (although nothing has been booked yet) were re-created. We have been given two weeks off from classes so most of us are trying to use this time to do some work for our universities back home or to see a bit of the countries near us. Tonight a bunch of friends and I booked some flights to Rome for later in March, just a quick weekend away before we have to head back to classes.

Other than that things have been as normal around here. More of my friends from UTS arrived in the last few weeks so there have been house-warmings to attend, dinners cooked for each-other and the hope that the weather will heat up soon so we can start spending some time relaxing out in the sun. I cannot wait for summer to arrive!

Last Sunday ESN organised for an ice-skating event, so Laura and I headed off for a break from our essay writing for a little bit of fun. It seems as though having the cheesy-90s music CD is universal at all ice-skating rinks, as the same music was being played here in Milano that I am used to dancing on the ice to back home at Mac Ice-Rink... A little bit of home for when I ended up spinning in the water! After travelling to the opposite end of Milano to where we live, and returning home, we were exhausted and I know for sure my feet were in a lot of pain. I certainly will never complain about how sore and bad the skates are back home again!