So... Lately I haven't had school

5:04 PADOVA - Don't ask why, but any reason is reason enough not to have school in this country. Yesterday was the festival of liberation - the freeing the country of communism I believe. My roommates said it was thanks to the yankees so they said thanks to me while the local communist party had a big demonstration in the piazza. It was lovely.
After my mom and my brother's left from Venice last week, I took a relatively chill weekend and week in Padova before I left again with Joe for Amsterdam. We spent our first night in Treviso with Checca and her family who made an amazing dinner and then went out and found Johannes. Amsterdam came early the next morning...
When we finally got there Joe had to do a trans-atlantic interview for an internship and then we hit the town. After a couple bars, some great food, and the Van Gogh museum we met some Danish people in our 24 person hostel room and found out what Amsterdam has to offer for the nightlife.
I'll just say this: Amsterdam is a crazy city as it is, but when the sun goes down it's even crazier. The people you can find there are really diverse. Good times.
Saturday we walked all around Amsterdam with our Danish friends and went to the Heineken museum for most of the day. That was a blast, then we had a Shoarma (kebab type thing) and chilled and drank with Jesper and Mads while the 40 year old Las Vegas dude sleeping next to us toked up and slept the entire time.
Sunday Joe and I went to the tourist office and took a trip outside of Amsterdam to the nearest tourist city with Windmills and Tulips. We were the only people under 50 I think. Complete change from the night before.
We stayed up all Sunday night to catch our plane home on Monday and its been rather regular Padovian life until tomorrow when Joe, Tisha, Kylie and I take off for Casablanca in French Morocco. More on that soon!

Ciao!