finally in siena

took me 30 hours of traveling and waiting. but i made it.

so the long version... last day in paris had breakfast with my very sweet japanese roomate in the hostel, she studied in america to improve her english. i went to find the internet cafe and ended up finding a photography exhibition of annie lebowitz's work which of course i had to see. it was amazing and i am so glad i went. got my stuff and heading to the train station to get to the airport. you take a train, then a taxi to this airport. ended up missing the deadline time by 15 minutes, still had 30 minutes til boarding but they wouldnt let me on. they kindly offered another flight for 75 euros extra the next night. ended up crying and going fuck this, and taking a shuttle back to paris. 13 euros. then went to go to the train station to catch a train to italy instead. i was just done with planes and the cheap air fare ticket wasnt worth it. now i know why they are cheap.

but anyways. i get on the metro to go to the train station and had to get off at gard du nord. we pass paris nord, which is a different name so i wait for my stop. but that was my stop. so i end up traveling all the way to charles de gaulle, the other airport and start crying again. 1.5 hours later i end up at the train station about 10ish, which is now closed. i have no ticket, no train, no plane ticket, no hotel and am stuck in paris.

so i am preparing myself for more crying which some boys from york go.. speak english? come join us. end up hanging out with these 19 year old boys from york who just graduated and are doing a month long tour of europe and two 20 year old girls from denmark, also travelling. we sat in the train station and drank beer until one am when the train station says "we invite you to leave the building for cleaning" so we are kicking out of the train station in paris and end up sitting outside of it until it opened at 4am. i have never felt more classy. i was like a parisan hobo. you should have seen my feet and legs, i had to scrub them clean! but i am very fortunate to have found the group of people i did. they were really nice and we just talked all night and i wasnt alone, which would have been very bad. i have all their emails and took photos of them so it was cool. although a horrible horrible day, it ended up okay.

in the morning i got a train ticket for milan, 95 euros (killing me!), went to a different train station and caught the stupid train. when i woke up i saw rebecca, my roommate and travel buddy, getting on the train. she ended up in the aisle across from me and we travelled together to siena. i was so happy to see her after all that crap. it worked out wonderfully, we traveled together, got to talk and got a hotel room together. we are staying in the hotel everyone is meeting at today for class and i got to shower and we had tasty italian food and wine last night. so i am clean, in siena, with becky and although i am quite poorer.. i am here.

so im going to wake up becky so we can explore siena together.

lovejordan.