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The word of the day is impressive.  I saw the Greek temples at Paestum and was thoroughly pleased.  I have to say that they, the best preserved one really, was one of the best things I have seen on the trip and perhaps in my life.  Needless to say I am in a great mood.  Tomorrow should be the stuff of dreams though.  There was a museum at Paestum as well with a whole lot of Greek material from the scavi (excavation site) and it was all well preserved.  Without question I am enjoying each archaeological site more than the last.  I live for this stuff.  Hopefully I will be able to travel a lot in my lifetime because I seem to be loving it.  Later we (and by we I mean myself and the adults) went to Sorrento.  If you picture the ideal Italian town with flowered streets and alleys with loads of shopping, you'd be thinking of Sorrento.  I think everyone missed out because not only was there a fantastic view of the M
edeterrainian, but also of the coastline.  I made my second stop at the ATM today to pick up some cash for Florence.  I think I know what I will be getting as gifts......but I'm not telling!  It has been a lot of fun though I feel that a lot of people don't like me.  I have heard people talking behind my back and it's really annoying.  Just because I actually want to be here to see the historical sites and not drink all the time they don't like me.  I get excited about history, I'm a dork I admit that freely.  This is a trip of a lifetime for me and I refuse to be bogged down and slowed by idiots.  Sorry for my language but this has been brewing for a while and I have tried to keep personal feelings out of this but it has just gotten to be too much.  In many respects I would have rather come on my own.  I think I am going to go to bed early tonight, and I intend to keep to myself tomorrow too.  I have been and I have a much better time.  I miss my real friends.  I miss having real conversations with people I care about.  Hell I even miss bumming around on the couch.  These people are a plague.  Give me locusts, give me boils, anything but this.  Ignoring things just hasn't been working out.  But tomorrow is Pompeii and that I am excited for.  I will have a great time and I know that.  Stebbs said that I will freak out and go nuts because the ruins are so well preserved.  I guess it's hard being mature, and that's something that I will have to deal with.  I'm really sorry that I am rambling now but I must be a little starved of social interaction. I'm done playing nice, I swear.  I appreciate all of you and will make an effort to tell you why when I get back.  I have to find a stopping place somewhere, so here it is.  Till tomorrow.  -Z