Which sounds better? I studied in Italy, I studied in Florence, or I studied in Tuscany?

With 8 days left in Tuscany, the region we have lived in for over 3 months now, Anicka, Megan and I decided to take another last minute trip. Last night they messaged me on facebook (after googling places to visit in Tuscany) and said hey, Certaldo is 5 euro's by train, both ways. Lets go. So we did. Because that is how we do things: we always plan to do something with our weekends and the night before we actually look it up and make it happen. Not always our best plan because sometimes in order to get cheep tickets one should plan say 2 days in advance not 12 hours but hey, we've made it work so far.
Certaldo. Not a tourist town. I expect in the summer it sees a little more action, but it was relatively deserted when we were there, which was actually really nice. No tacky tourists ruining your pictures with their ipads, no overly loud youths breaking the peace of your experience, not large groups standing in your way-it was just nice to take a break from the hubbub of an overly trafficked city.
Certaldo is about an hour away from Florence and is a Medieval town not a Renaissance one. Simply stated, its older and has a castle and towers and is the home town of Boccaccio, a famous Renaissance author (The Decameron.) Certaldo is the city where the station is and Certaldo Alto, a separate smaller city (kind of like a suburb or Florence and Fiesole) is right next to it where the castle is. Which was what we went to go see. We did not get a chance to go into the castle because you had to pay to go in and we were just fine wandering around and seeing the city but it was pretty on the out side. The views were superb and we just walked around appreciating a break from our studies (we had our Italian exam on Thursday so we had a heavy week and we all have two ten page papers each to write for the end of this week, plus and exam and a presentation.)
By complete accident as we scouted out a place to eat lunch, we came across an American campus-Eastern Carolina University. One of the professors there was walking up to go into the gate as we were reading the sing and poking around and she invited us in to look around-much to the displease of her students setting up for their art show. There was some good art there-photography, drawing, hand made sketch books, a little bit of painting.
We opted for a nice sit down lunch since we are at the end of our trip and not in a hurry to see EVERYTHING in the city (its so small there wasn't THAT much to see). We stumbled apon Da Messer Boccaccio which had reasonably priced pasta and 6 euro house wine. (I'll take a moment to interject a Laura's word of wisdom here: when in Italy ALWAYS order the house wine. It not only tends to be the cheapest on the menu, but it tends to go with what ever you are eating AND its good. This one was super tasty, really light, and had a hit of what we thought might be pomegranate in it. Simply divine) I had gnocchi certaldina which was gnocchi pasta with their famous onions in a sauce with cheese. It was delicious! Oh my gosh was it good-the onions were so sweet and the sauce had a bit of tomato and melted cheese in it and it was so so so yummy.
After that we called it a day and headed home (to get more school work done). On our hike down from Certaldo Alto to Certaldo we stumbled across some roosters who liked me a little too much and like six or seven cats just lounging in the sun.
 And that was it. We outlined our plans for the up coming week (getting together and studying) and possibly taking more two more trips next week before we fly out. We discussed how we wish we could have traveled a bit more on our weekends doing day trips and such yet we recognize that we have seen a lot. My personal list includes 12 cities in Italy with a possible two more this coming week. The three of us realize we've done quite a lot for our time being here and we've seen a lot more of Tuscany than most people will see in their lives (unless they live here.) Hence, it sounds cooler to say we studied in Tuscany rather than just Italy or Florence. To be fair most of the trips we did take (to Pisa, Fiesole, Sienna, Arezzo) were for class with our professors who were conducting class on site...so we did technically study there. Makes the school work we've done sound cooler!