Thursday: Today was a fantastic day! I was done with class by 11:35 today and had all afternoon free. I was so excited to get my stuff I just sat in my room for a few hours. I was getting worried that they weren’t going to come so I emailed my dad and asked him how long I should wait until I call the airport and make them bring my stuff over to the hotel. Just then Alex came into our room and asked me if I knew that my luggage was in the lobby. I was so excited! Alex went with me downstairs and helped me bring them upstairs and I got right down to unpacking. Surprisingly it only took me about an hour and a half to unpack and put everything away. I guess it was easier for me because everyone else had already put their stuff places so I knew where there was space for me. Unpacking was the greatest feeling of my life! I had never been so happy in my life. I was so excited that I got to shower with my own shampoo and soap and I got to put on clean clothes. It was fabulous. One of the down sides to my stuff being packed in space bags for a week and a half though was that everything was wrinkled when I took it out so I have a lot of ironing ahead of me. After dinner I went with some friends wondering around the city. We were trying to find this bakery that Alex found online that sold American desserts like cheesecake and stuff like that. We wondered and ended up finding it in the Jewish Ghetto. Sadly it was closed, but the cool thing was that there was a concert going on in some ruins that we found and watcher a little from a ways away. It was really fun. We took some pictures and had a blast talking about our days. Alex and I ended up going back to the hotel after that and having some fun with our other 2 roommates. I don’t remember if I said anything about this earlier but I bought a children’s toothbrush when we got to Rome and when Caitlin and Lindsey saw it they thought it was hilarious because it had a cat head that you put on the top when you weren’t using it. We decided to make a game in our room to hide the cat tooth brush around the bathroom but we didn’t want to put it anywhere gross until I got my toothbrush from my luggage. Well now that I have my luggage the game is on and it is going to be fantastic!
Friday: Well this 8 AM class thing is going to kill me for sure. Three days in a row with 8 AM classes is not fun. I was so tired for make-up classes today that I didn’t want to do anything during my 4 hour break before lunch at 1. I went to the library after my philo class to do my anthropology reading but when I got here the book I needed was already being used so I went back to my room where all of my roommates were sleeping and tried so hard not to fall asleep but that didn’t go over too well…I ended up falling asleep for about an hour and a half. After classes Alex and I were supposed to go and meet her aunt’s friend at a little café. She lived in Rome and Alex and I were kind of hoping that she would adopt us for the weekends and make us food sometimes. Well we went to where the directions told us the café was and we were so confused. All we could find was what looked like a museum and when we went in the museum there was some sort of wine tasting going on. We went to where the café was and awkwardly asked some ladies if they were who we were looking for but they were totally confused by what we were asking, obviously not her. So we waited around for about 15 or 20 minutes before we left. When we were walking back toward Piazza Novono we ran into a group of our friend who were going out for dinner. We decided to join them and we found this little place we decided to go to. The best part was that there was a deal on dinner for tonight. For 12 euros you got bread, a salad, a piece of bruschetta, a drink of any kind, and either a dish of pasta or a pizza. Who can deny that kind of deal? There were 10 of us at dinner and it was so much fun. I think we might have annoyed the waitress a little bit because we asked her to take some pictures of us but it was totally worth it. After dinner we wondered around Piazza Novono a little before we decided that we were going to go to Scholars tonight. We went back to the hotel to get ready and before we knew it we were walking down the street to Scholars. There was a live band there and it was a lot of fun. About 20 minutes after we got there a flood of students from our Rome program came if. It was great to just have some fun with all of the other guys and girls outside of a school atmosphere. We left at like 12:45 because we had to get up early Saturday morning for our first lecture and tour. It was a lot of fun just hanging out with a bunch of other college students from America who were also studying abroad. It was almost like a little bit of home.
ciao bella!
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