Today started off with another delightful sleep-in. Since dinner starts around 20:00 for us, it usually ends close to 22:30 or 23:00 then we have dishes to wash and conversations to wrap up. If we want to see friends in the evening we meet up with them just before 00:00 and spend a couple hours with them before walking home. Since nobody lives particularly close to us it's more than the 5 min walk to the the center or a cafe. So last night we ate dinner, my roomies kindly let me off dish duty since I put together most of the meal. We then we out and met up with friends at the DeeJ Bar in Trastevere and walked around on a bit of an adventure to find the bar we went to our first night in Italy. It was a good time with good friends. I'm happy that we're getting a chance to talk with kids in our program outside of the center. My two roomies and I weren't ready for bed when we got home and we all got the chance to skype with friends from home (since it was only afternoon/evening on the east coast).
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| Sitting on a bridge with friends |
We all got up in time to finish up any Italian homework we had left. I had a meeting with my academic adviser to finalize my schedule for this semester. I managed to switch into another art history class. Now I will be taking four art history classes and italian..... yeah this might be the perfect semester. I'm pumped to get started and meet my professors. After my meeting I had to go almost directly to my intensive italian class (I made it this time!!). My teacher is fine and thankfully I have two friends in my class and the student I was paired with today is also friendly. Unfortunately I think I was right in the fact that they placed me too low. The class was not challenging to me in the slightest. I think I'll be trying to move one up to join Julia and Tom. That will be better for me. After Italian Tom, Pepperoni, and another Wooster friend went to the American bookstore to buy our textbooks. We got a little turned around but like I've mentioned before, it's impossible to take anything BUT the scenic route in Rome!! So we bought books. Tom made us stop in the McDonalds so he could get some food cause he was starving and it was right next to us. Their McDonalds are nothing like ours haha it's really classy, the ordering process is completely different. In a lot of stores here you get and eat your food and then pay for it, which makes sense it restaurants and such but not for a situation like Starbucks or Coffee Tree. It's just different. After we got our books we took the longest trek home. My feet were tired, I was tired, and my books are so heavy. They cost 202,95 Euro but our program gets us a discount so I only had to pay 190,00 Euro (that's $275.50 for those who don't realize the conversation rate is garbage)! I am beginning to keep better records of how much I spend here because I feel like I am going through too much money. Gotta save it for trips and museums and all the delicious food they have here!
Sorry for the lack of pictures (I added some to the previous post) I need someone with tech skills to look at my camera. I think it's not really broken but I don't want to fool around with it and seriously damage it :( I'll try to steal photos to the best of my ability.
Tonight Nico is home and is going to show us a cool pizzeria tonight for dinner as an apartment. We missed her and are all getting back into the swing of Italian so we're thankful she's around to correct us.
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| This is pizza Italian style! large rectangles that get chopped up and folded into almost a sandwich/panino |
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