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Florence is located in middle-Italy, Europe. We can see the Senese Clavey Hills from our hotel room! With 3 minor rivers flowing through it, Florence has many pretty bridges. It has mild to warm weather so i will probably not need my jacket, but with an average annual rainfall of about 4 inches, there is a chance I will need an umbrella! Florence's population is around 370,000 people and about 9,400 people per square mile. Its pretty crowded here. I have seen many Asians, and i just found out that there are around 7,000 here! 87% of the population is Italian. We saw a cemetery today and I learned that the US used florence as a medical base in WWII. We now have a Veterans Cemetery here that anyone can visit. I arrived here in florence just in time because right before I came there was a medium-sized earthquake, but besides that the people here are very calm and peaceable. I have heard their language, Italian, before, but its different here because of the many dialects for each province. Their Euros look extremely intricate for a modern currency, and are worth more than the US dollar. I got here by plane, but we are traveling around on a train, and plan to head back to the states by boat. Almost every transportation system you can think of is here! I have asked around and heard that 80% of the people here are Roman Catholic. They have some smog and air pollution from industries north of here but its not that bad. The US and Italy have became allies after WWII and there aren't any outstanding threats to Italy, so all is well. Farewell until tomorrow! (Family life in Florence)
this is walker. Hey cody. I thought that your first few posts were really good! they had good info and you stayed in your persona of an exchange student. at the end, however, you did kind of trail off in your entries. they became shorter and less fluent, but in all i enjoyed reading your blog! nice work
ReplyDeleteGreat job! Seems like you found some awesome pictures! I especially liked the one with the jets creating the national flag in the air!
ReplyDeleteOverall it was very informative and well written! I know a lot more about Florence now then I did before reading this! Good read!
Good job, Cody! I liked how you told the story as if you were actually in Florence; that definitely gives it a personal touch. I learned a lot about Florence and Italy in general. I hope to visit it myself someday :)
ReplyDeleteHey, this is Noah, there where some interesting points I found in this blog and I found if fascinating about the WWII stuff! Thanks for telling us about this fascinating city!
ReplyDeleteHey Cody!!! Great blog!!! :) Florence seems like an awesome but unique city! I especially thought that your post on the culture of Italians was vey interesting and cool. It is always interesting to me to learn about people's lives and culture are in other countries!!! Again, Great job!!:)
ReplyDeleteGood Job! I just wanted to say it was a little strange that you just hopped right into the city before telling us that you were goping to be a exchange student . . . But Great Job!
ReplyDeleteNice work! You did a good job on portraying what life there was like. I have learned quite a bit from your posts.
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