"YOU'RE 21!....I'M 21!!"

I'm officially 21. Therefore one of the first things I will buy when I land in America (besides chicken fingers and fries) will be alcohol. yayerssssss.
My birthday fell on a perfect day...Tuesday, aka FAT TUESDAY, aka CARNIVALE..and oh ya it was "The Day of The Woman" in Italy as well...ya it was crazy to say the least...
We started celebrating on Sunday...as seen in earlier posts, but it picked up on Monday evening where at dinner everyone sang to me, blew out candles, got a little cake...all that stuff (you're probably wondering...wait your birthday was Tuesday, why are they singing to you on Monday...well on Tuesdays and Thursdays we get fruit for dessert...lame I know...so they sing to you on days when dessert is served...i mean no ones wants a candle in an orange am I right? ....actually I'm currently obsessed with blood oranges so I wouldn't of midned) Ok so everyone sang...cute. Then at midnight Monday night, while I was finishing up my metals project (BEING SUCH A GOOD STUDENT MOM!) all of my roommates and friends came in with a cake and candles singing happy birthday, it was sooooo nice. Like these people here made my birthday the shit. I love them. like LOOOVE THEM. So on Tuesday, the actual day of my birthday I got more cakes from Dorothy and candles and more people sang to me...and everybody was just so awesome and then WE ALL WENT OUT.

love this girl

Since it was carnivale and shit, everyone was dressed ridiculously and painted their faces and it was awesome. I wore my helmet..and had Texas Ranger and Lexi paint my face...
**Oh and as Tommy watches me write this over my shoulder, I would like to say that although I did not go to dinner that night (stayed home to study for my midterm mom) he had bought me cakes and wine and was going to surprise me...AWWW THANKS TOM!**
OK so after pregaming and face painting it was time to get to the Lions Well....and with Karina and I's luck, on our way there we ran into Jacob...great.
When we finally arrived at the Lions Well it looked like Halloween on E....it was insane. EVERYONE was dressed up, and in really good costuemes. Before I could order my first shot, the entire room errupted in "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU...." like seriously these people made my brithday the bomb. I wish they went to slu. Ok so anyways, after making it known to everyone that it was my birthday it was time for shot....after shot....after shot....one with tommy, one with casey, one with dorothy, one with karina, one with alexis...one with the bartender....

friends....

she made my night

my 21st birthday 

then I woke up the next morning...still drunk...having to go to a meeting with our RA Casey and Jacob...with wet laundry all over my room. Eventually Mr. Hangover appeared.
Throughout the day I proceeded to feel like death and managed to dry heave for nearly 7 hours....through my Art History midterm as well. Great.

THANKS FOR A GREAT 21st EVERYONE!

"it's your birthday!...no its not...WELL WE'RE STARTING IT NOW!"

so this past Tuesday...Fat Tuesday, Day of the Woman, Mardi Gras, MY BIRTHDAYYYY was epic.

We started celebrating my milestone birthday on Sunday...as we proceeded to wake up 3 hours late (to find that Alexis had peed the bed again) and missed our first train, we decided to take a cab to Camucia, and while waiting for the next train, we stopped at a bakery/bar...thats literally the only way I can describe this magical place. While Alexis and Karina were fighting hangovers, we figured that we should start drinking immediately to get them drunk and get rid of the hangover...so we ordered "SPECIAL MIMOSAS"...and they were the shit.

on the taxi ride to Camuciaaaaa

MY FIRST BIRTHDAY PRESENT!

special mimosas...round 2...with less than 10 minutes till our train

As we enjoyed our morning mixed drinks and some expresso, Alexis went up to pay so we could leave (seeing that we were a few blocks away from the station and our train was arriving in less than 10 minutes...we needed to haul ass)....the logical thing would to be to pay and walk to the station...instead, we turned around to see the bartender making 4 more mimosas....Alexis ordered another round. It is now 10:44am and our train is supposed to arrive at 10:50am. As Karina looked at her watch yelling "GUYS WE NEED TO GO" we did what anyone else would do; Grabbed the drinks, chuggled them at the bar (while everyone else was calmly drinking espressos and families were enjoying breakfast...), and proceeded to run out screaming "GRAZIE, CIAO!!!"
Once we hit the street it was go time...actually it was 10:47am. shit. we had 3 minutes.
RUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNN!!
So on a lazy Sunday morning in the peaceful town of Camucia, 4 american girls, now a little drunk, proceeded to spring 4 blocks to the train stations cheering eachother on to run faster.
We made it. exhausted. out of breath. thinking we were going to yak. After realizing we were on the wrong side of the tracks, we quickley ran to the other side just in time to catch the next train to Florence...

....where are we going?

(I should probably tell you that we were on our way to Florence to see a "futbol" game for my birthday...I was in need of seeing hot, athletic men running around.)
So as we got onto the train (with no tickets not knowing what stop to get off on) we felt as though we could conquer the world..then we got exhausted and passed out for an hour. We awoke, saw a bunch of people wearing jerseys at one of the stops on the outskirts of Florence, read some signs that matched the info we had written on Dorothy's cigarrette carton (so classy) and decided to get off....our instincts were right...we had gotten off at the stop 1 block away from the stadium. YAYERSSSSSS!!! (oh and we got there for free because no one came to check tickets...score)
We get off the train and got a second wind. WE ARE HERE IN FLORENCE ABOUT TO GO TO OUR FIRST "FUTBOL" GAME!!! what up. shout out to Brian Abernethy, he's so proud I went to one.
Ok so as much as we wanted to run and buy purple stuff as soon as we got off the train, we had to buy tickets...obviously we bought the cheapest ones...which were in the bleachers...with all of the young drunk guys who wave flags and scream songs and throw things...perfect. After we bought tickets we went to go get lunch...consisting of large beers and small bowls of pasta.
Next thing you know we had 15 minutes to gametime. We ran to a stand, bought some cheap ass 5 euro jerseys...number 10 Mutu, Muta...something like that...put them on and went into the stadium.
After being served free redbulls and buying overpriced beer we were feeling AMAZING...walking into the stadium we were like "OH MY GODDDD"

MENNNNNNNNNN

There we were, surrounded by MEN, TESTOSTERONE, BEER, YELLING, SPORTS...OMG IT WAS ABOUT TIME. We noticed the teams warmed up and stretching...forget finding out seats, there we stood with our faces up against the glass staring at some of the hottest men I've ever seen.
After wiping the drool from our mouths we decided it was time to find out seats. After we found out seats(...ok not really we just walked to the bleachers, found the largest spot of open seats and sat down...success) started to get into it...taking pictures, screaming anything, making friends and playing "Hot or Not" (one of my favorite passtimes at Dana).

alexis...and security

Ok so whatever the game went on, Dorothy started getting annoyed with the lame american girls behind us complaining about everything and not drinking beer...all while judging us. So we judged them back and then before you knew it, our boy Muto, Muta, Mutu..WHATEVER, well the hot guy, number 10 (THE GUY ON OUR JERSEYS) scored two out of the three goals Florence got so we were OFF THE WALLS. It was GREAT.

I <3 Fiorentina as well

Then before you knew it, the game was over...we left, got gelato, went to the train station and WE FOUND TOMMY!!!!
Tommy, mr. have to have a plan for everything, woke up on time, got on the train we were all supposed to be on, was there infront of our eyes dressed in purple and we WERE SOOOO EXCITED TO SEE HIM. We had been screaming "TOMMY" all day hoping to find him somewhere. We were screaming Tommy during the game and even got people around us to start yelling Tommy...it was great. So ya we found Tommy, bombarded him and starting telling him all about our day, blah blah blah, got on the train ride home and passed out. Next thing you know we were back in Camucia.
Oh and on our way back to the train, Dorothy and I found a helmet in the middle of the road...no bike, no person...just the helmet....we brought it home with us....and we now wear it when we go out. (As seen in my current profile picture HERE)

modeling my new helmet

I think I was delerious or my hangover was starting to kick in....but by the time we were on the busride home to Cortona...I felt like I was on another planet...Tommy has a video...I have yet to see it...
Ya so that was only the beginning of the best birthday EVER.

Found My Husband!!

so this morning i met my husband. no big deal.
meet Johnny McEntee...

presh

6'3'' 225lbs and a greeeeeat build. he's a dreamboat.

 

he's got the sauce

 Goodlooking, dark hair, taller than me AND plays football. sign me up.

Plus he's funny. Take a look for yourself...

trick shots by my future husband, he's so charming

hookup alert

background check...a few weeks ago Victoria (super sweet, really nice, recent breakup from boyfriend) made out with Walker Texas Ranger (artsy soccer player from alabama who loooves the woman's body)

THEN...I recieved this on my blackberry this morning...
"One of the WB's, 60% sure it was victoria, drunkenly came into the boys room, confirmed made out, slept there but wasn't there at 6:30am this morning."
xoxo gossipgurl

Then tonight got this one...
"Victoria was/is super pissed at walker for lying about his hookup with someone (remaining un-named for now...stay posted for the reveal) last week."
(ps. hook was a full blown HOOK.UP.)
xoxo gossipgurllll


...so who is this mystery hookup that Texas Ranger had last weekend...juicyyyyy

coco-nutty...drop me a beat.

Blackout ali is alive and well. This past Saturday night was one of the best nights I’ve had since I’ve been here.

During the day  we visited Pienza and Montepulciano, aka the cheese and wine capitals of the world. So in Montepulciano besides having the best wine everrrrr, Twilight filmed a few scenes of the second movie there…you know when he’s shirtless and glittering in the doorway and shes running to him through the people dressed in red…ya. We spent the majority of our day eating a 4 hour lunch/ wine date in this amazing restaurant where the owner was sooooo nice and the food was amazing and the atmosphere was great and I just never wanted to leeeeave. By the time our bread and wine was brought out I was straight up in love with the owner and proceeded to ask him if he wanted to adopt us….he didn’t speak much English so had no idea what I was saying. But he told us to come back and go to a bar he owned…before I die I WILL go back to see him again. And Jord I’ll take you with me because then you can see  all the places that Twilight was filmed and see all the shrines they have for Twilight in all the restaurants and bars.

After dinner we walked around town looking for anything that was open…the downfall of “siesta”. We have formed the conclusion that Italians don’t really work. They wake up…hang out for a few hours, then go on siesta, then hang out more then go out. Love their work ethic. Ok ya so we were walking around and then were lured into this wonderful place that was giving out free samples…of food AND wine. Obviously we went in…for a while. We left with pockets full of biscotti and a bottle for the bus ride home…we asked when we bought the wine if she could open it for us…she did…and totally judged us…whatever.

Still feeling the wine from during the day we proceeded to drink all the wine we bought that day on the bus ride home. Best decision ever.

Oh and you know when you buy beanie babies…how they have their name, birthday and little rhyme about them on the tag. Well we found a “beanie boo” that had the same birthday as Dorothy so we had to buy it…and we did. And we proceeded to rap all the rhymes from all the beanie boos that we saw in the gift shop prior….over and over again.

I think I can still remember what our favorite one was

“some say that I’m a little monkey,

my legs are short and my body is chunkyyyyyy”

We loved this…so much that we made a beat for it and freestyled after we would yell it over and over again….oye.

Oh and throughout the day we had a few “Jacob incidents”. For all of you just tuning in, Jacob is one of the people working on the trip and half of the girls are smitten with him…probably because he’s the manliest man here…slimmmm pickins over in these parts. Anyways I try to see it, but I’m not sold on the idea of “how sexy he is” or “how hot his bod is”. Anyways I call him the diamond in the rough thinking maybe one day I’ll find him attractive…well as I was filming a video on the bus I was just being ali…loud ali…and didn’t realize the window was open…and omg I can’t even type the rest. Then we had a really awkward moment getting on the buses. I was team marco…

playing scratch offs....miss you rochelle

Pienza

HI WALKERRRR

view from  Montepulciano

family photo...so presh

Imi and her daughter Mia...my favorite photo of the day

the piazza that a scene from Twilight was filmed in
SEE JORD!

eat your heart out foodnetwork

Ok so we arrived back in Cortona. Time for fun.

After a quick trip to Molescini’s to buy dinner…consisting of chocolate and boxed wine we hiked up the mountain and got ready to start the nap. We power-napped, showered, got ready (for me consisted of putting in the hair extensions and caking on the bronzer…my amazing mother sent me a care package…complete with gold hoops and hair extensions…THANKS MOM) and started drinking. Once the boxes of wine were gone and everyone was dressed (that night everyone was dressed by Ashley for a “sculpture”) we headed for the Lions Well.

From what I can remember/what I've been told..

•       Dance dance like its your last last night of your life life
•       Drinks. Broke my glass.
•       Zane and a bunch of guys…asked them their age. ranged from 16-19. Jesus. High tailed it out of there
•       Peeing inbetween cars with Dorothy
•       Yelling “WE WANT DICK”
•       Shots
•       Tommy and Angela…doesn’t she have a bf…scandallllll
•       Fell off a table. So classy.
•       Fell off the table on Tommy and Angela. Whoops.
•       Time to go
•       Give a talk to Lexi’s date. “if she doesn’t make it home I’ll beat the shit out of you”
•       March up the hill
•    Yelling the entire time...with Dorothy.
•    Got back home. Fucked shit up Andrew Krieger style.
•    Throwing cheese. Breaking balsamic. (people here def dont think its funny like at St. Lawrence)
•    Talked to myself
•     Passed out

"the night has begun"

dancing queen

death for dorothy and i

tommy and angela...SCANDALOUSSSS
they've got potential

hey brooke, whose your friend?

i've been asking him to play "black and yellow" and  some kap slap since i've been in cortona...

lexi's new friend...they went home together.

NEXT MORNING... 

Woke up, thought I was dying....no recollection of the night before..

Day full of throwing up and getting motion sickness when I rolled over in bed. Yay hangovers….not.

Hearing about what I did the night before. Kewl.

Dorothy went deep in the heart of texas

All I want is a bacon egg and cheese from mcdonalds.

oh and God Bless Dorothy Zittel.

Karina can breath through her nose.

This girl has had the like flue slash BLACK PLAGUE for the last few weeks. I mean sick. I love her but she got me sick…slut. I love her. So anyways we’re celebrating. All though she still coughs and we worry she’s going to cough up a lung or barf on the spot. She ran into the room this evening and freaked out. We thought it was some juicy gossip. Nope. She covered her mouth and we waited in silence.

Then we realized…

SHE CAN BREATHE THROUGH HER NOSEEEE!!!!

Bitch is getting better. Ugh ohhhh, look out Lions Well!

Because I miss you...

Today is my bestfriend Andrew's birthday. He is 21 today...and as tradition holds on your 21st birthday...or at least at slu, I can bet you his day is going to be filled with getting iced, everyone yelling Happy 21st whenever they see him, and the occasional "DON'T DIE TONIGHT KREIGS!"..(which we all take semi seriously with kriegs...the thing about my bestfriends is that they all should of died of alcohol poisoning our freshmen year...) Ok anyways, now I'm just rambling and I'm semi delerious because some deathly illness is going around this friggin school over here and obviously I got it...again...cool. not. But  I know he wont see this but I'm going to write it anyway because I miss him a lot.

Dear Andrew,

Happy Birthday, I miss you a lot. I know you're going to have an awesome birthday surrounded by our idiot friends and I wish I could be there. Don't get hurt tonight, you're coming off of an embaressing injury already...I mean who has to go to the ER after playing pick up...and playing pick up with our friends. Come on. Hope you survive until I come home. Hope you have a lot of mind erasers and everyone buys you lots of drinks at the hoot. And I hope you have the best birthday ever!!

Miss you lots, love you more. (its true and you can call me whatever you want, but I know you love me too)

Happy Birthday Kriegs

Love, Ali 

ps. check your CMR this week

Me and Kriegs 

...and after just typing that and thinking about my friends I'm already crying because I miss them so much. awesome.