After another AMAZING meal from our host mama the six of us slowly got ready to go out for our first night on the town. Burning out my straightener as soon as I plugged it in to my converter made getting ready much easier as I could now only wear my hair up. About 20 of us all met at Piazza Santa Croce and after much waiting for the rest of our group to arrive we all started in the general direction of our final destination. 10 minutes later we realized we had NO idea where we were headed and a girl from are group found some other American students, who had been here longer, who were headed to the same destination. There were a ton of other american teenagers out in the city and they were easy to spot. Our final destination, The Lion's Fountain, must have been the most American bar in Florence. Our group of now 20+ filed into what was a rather uncrowded bar as we clearly started the party. Inside we found americans, and other english speaking natives, from all over but there wasn't a single Italian in the place. I met a REALLY cute Australian named Scott, who was two months into a six month holiday traveling the world. We met kids from University of West Virginia, Penn State, Arizona State, and countless other Universities. Some where studying in the city for the summer and others where just merely tourists passing through.
One guy we met from Jersey had requested they play Beyonce's Single Ladies, a rather strange request coming from a very New Jersey looking guido. When the song came on we discovered much to everyones delight that he had memorized the ENTIRE, and I do mean ENTIRE, dance. Breaking it down like Beyonce this man danced for the full duration of the song to the cheers of everyone at the now rather crowded bar.
Not yet realizing the full consequences of what I was doing I joined in on rounds of Jager-Bombs, shots of Jager dropped into Red Bull. NOT the smartest idea as I later discovered Red Bull + jet lag = not a good decision and I was unable to sleep at all when amazingly enough the five of us finally made it home without getting lost.
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