Amy :)

O Dio! What a wonderful friend I have found in Amy J. Dingler. Thank you God for putting this person in my life.
You know how you get a feeling about stuff as soon as it happens? I had a feeling about this girl when I first met her. And by met her I mean when we added each other on Facebook. She was really the only other gap year person I connected with and stayed connected with. I felt like I knew her, like I had known her for a really long time already. She is easy to talk to, and complements my crazy with her own sick twisted crazy as well. Gotta love it when two crazies come together. Let's just say it gets insane!
Anyway, we kept in touch and agreed that if our paths crossed our gap year, we would make the effort  to meet up and do some volunteer work together. And sure enough, we did! We met up in Milan, after I came back to Italy from the holidays. And with my poor planning as in tact as ever, we packed our bags and went to Rome.
It was great to have someone to talk to, someone who could relate perfectly to what I was going through. I recognised her instantly at the train station and we non stopped talked practically that entire week we were together. We went to all the great places in Rome sight seeing, and we volunteered at a soup kitchen right down the street from our hostel! (That's why I am a poor planner, because things just happen to work out, thank God.)
To say that I love this girl in an understatement. I value her as a person, as a friend, and as a fellowTarHeel.  I had a feeling she would become a good friend to me from the beginning. I had the best time with her. We walked around Rome, talking, eating, complaining, laughing, gossiping, everything. And even despite the weather, and the first blizzard to hit Rome since the 80's, we went Pub Crawling together before our departure from each other, on a well deserved adventure and night of fun.
The snow was beautiful. The silence was impenetrable except from the music blaring from the clubs, and the snow crunching beneath our feet.
We danced like we have been friends forever. It was so much fun! Things work out best when you are with someone with the same interests and expectations as you. We went out to have fun together, and sure enough, Rome delivered. The walk home in the snow, the transportation systems that shut down because Rome has no idea what to do when it snows, the one euro cappuccinos, and the crawling into bed when the sun comes up made my week.
This girl is crazy, she gets me, I get her. We have a lot to learn from each other, and a lot of fun to have together at Carolina. From our appreciation for Drake, and our ambitious outlook on life, and our love of travelling, I can see myself travelling with her one day. Perhaps to Switzerland? Who knows. I'll poorly plan it and we will see what happens.
Amy I miss you! Lots of love to you from Australia!! Counting down the months till we meet up again in Chapel Hill, on Carolina's beautiful campus, reminiscing on our gap year, and catching up! See you soon! Ciao Bella!!