Florence, Italy...through one eye

I've been living in Florence for about a week now, and I am loving it! I love the fact that I have a working kitchen, living room, and our own bathroom! Little luxuries. So far we have seen Il Dumo (and even climbed to the top of the dome!), Museo Dell'Opera del Duomo, Piazza SS. Anunziata, Galleria Dell'Accademia (where the REAL David statue is!), Bargello museum (features a lot of Donatello sculptures), and Boboli Gardens. I love the smaller size of Florence and the walk-ability of the city. I really like not having to take public transportation every single day like we did in Paris. I have also tried 6 different flavors of gelato: pistachio, coffee, dark chocolate, pannacotta (which is a type of Italian dessert), cookies, and some sort of rum delicious flavor. Another thing that I like about Florence so far is that it is MUCH cheaper than Paris...which is good for me since all my money went to having Guiness in Ireland. So you must be wondering why I am seeing Florence through one eye. And here's the story behind that: About two weeks ago, when I was back in London one of my eyes was a bit blurry and I just thought it was because of my glasses. So for most of my time in Ireland I wore my glasses because my contacts were being weird and I wasn't able to see well with them in. Once I got to Florence I finally decided to do something about my blurry eye and I found an English-speaking doctor. After an hour in the waiting room I finally got to see an English-speaking eye doctor! Which was great because I knew the general doctor wouldn't be able to help me much. He told me I had a scratched cornea and  gave me a prescription for some eye drops, which I took for about a day and a half before I had to go back to him to check my eyes again. So this morning I went all the way outside of town to the main Florence hospital, more specifically to the Clinica Occulistica. After wandering around parts of the hospital that I was pretty sure in America you would not be allowed into, I finally found my doctor's office. After looking at my eyes (AGAIN) he prescribed me new eye drops. Great. This entire situation happened to me 2 years ago in the same way. Swollen cornea, eye drops, eye drops didn't work, second kind of eye drops, then I finally was better. I hope that by next Wednesday (which is my next check-up with Dr. Lorenzo) my vision will be better indicating that my eyes are finally better! I will be relieved to get this whole situation over with! This weekend we have a 3-day weekend  in which I will be spending most of it at Cinque Terre. Cinque Terre is a series of 5 coastal cities on the West Coast of Italy (by the Mediterranean ya'll). I'm very excited to spend the weekend soaking up the sun. I decided that I'm going to pretend that I'm going on vacation this weekend, even though this entire study abroad experience has felt like a vacation...almost! After all the stress of getting to Florence, finally getting my luggage, figuring out my hacked email (yes this happened to me as well), figuring out my claim to Wells Fargo about the charge on it from when an ATM in Dublin ate it (yes this happened too), and the entire process of trying to get my eyes better...I'm more than ready for the weekend! Bring on the sun! Ciao!