Sesto Fiorentino

I've been here for almost a week now, and it honestly still feels like I'm about to hop back on a plane and go home. The first week has been a lot of fun. The town of Sesto Fiorentino is about 6 miles from Florence, only about a 20 minute bus ride into town. I wish I had some pictures of Sesto to put up here, it's a really cool town. There's a lot of little, narrow streets and a fair amount of restaurants, shops, gelato, and things going on. The first night (Wednesday) it was a kids birthday here, so we all got together in the basement and had some beer and wine and such then went out into sesto. There was a carnival going on in the main city square, which has basically been going on ever since we've been here. There's a big stage where the play music and have some type of performances going on, with an outdoor beer garden sort of place close by. On Thursday night me and two other kids actually talked italian with these bartenders for close to two hours, so that was really neat to get a chance to do that and speak some italian to actual italians. They actual own / work in Sesto pub, which is right on the sqaure and has unreal pizza. We've been there a couple times already actually. We've also found our gelato hotspot I guess, it's right next to the main square as well. It's unbelievable. Gelato blows ice cream out of the water. hands down. The flavors are so good and it's definitely lived up to, if not exceeded, all the hype. We've spent some time just roaming the city as well, and it's actually pretty big, so Sesto itself has been a pleasant surprise.

There's also this supermarket close by called Essalunga. It's about a five minute walk away and I've been there almost everyday. The beer / alcohol / wine prices are unmatched. I've grown fond of this Italian brew called Birra Moretti. You can get a six pack of those bad boys for 2.50 Euro. And it's no keystone light / busch light bs either. Wine's ridiculous too, there's always sales of different bottles for 1 Euro, and they're not half bad. There's also groceries and snacks there too.

We ate dinner outside last night which was kind of cool. Just a whole mess of appetizers. We had this thing called a zucchini flower, which was like deep fried zucchini with some kind of sugary coating. Really good. The served us wine with dinner too, which they claimed they never would.


The first day of school also was yesterday. My classes seem really interesting and really easy, a solid combo. There's so much downtime over here too which is really nice, so the evenings have consisted of a lot of hanging out / watching movies in the basement. There was fireworks sunday night as well in Sesto, which were pretty cool. Can't really think of much else. I'll talk about our two days / night in Florence as well in the next post. Again, appologies for no pictures of Sesto yet, they'll come sooner or later