Day 6

First Day of Classes!

09:45 -   We had to wake up in the morning because we had to verify our intentions to stay in Italy by signing off on our passports in front of an Italian official.

10:25 -   Following our signitures, we traveled down town to a Tabbachi store and bought month long metro passes. We also bought notebooks at the store. We realized that they were really expensive because they were graphing paper notebooks – Fail.

12:25 -   We went down to Mensa where we ate lunch with our friends Thomas and Courtney. We had some delicious pasta, pudding, eggs, and fish. We stayed at Mensa for a while chatting together and discussing possible evening plans.

14:00 -   We left Mensa and went to  our first class of the Semester – Italian 101. We have a female teacher who is very nice, except she speaks too much Italian. We learned some more words and listed the Italian alphabet.  

15:00 – After Italian, we hung out around the Skype computer lab and updated Facebook with more pictures of our travels and reading Dog Fort Comics. 

16:30 – We returned to our room and relaxed for a little bit. Before long, Courtney and Thomas came over to our room and we discussed plans for the evening.

17:45 – We went down to Mensa for dinner. They had the same types of food as we had for dinner, which didn’t make it taste any worse! 

19:00 - Following dinner, we all went back up to our room to digest and then we went down to Rome on the 990 Bus.  We went to Old Bridge and got gelato – SO GOOD. And then we walked around the city – through St. Peter’s, around the Pantheon, and along the Tiber where there is a festival of tents going on.  We then went to a nice restaurant and only ordered two pizzas which didn’t make the waiter very happy!  After that we went to a smaller place and got some wine – as in Thomas and Courtney got a glass of wine and we had a tiny sip.  On the way back to the bus stop, we stopped at Old Bridge again and split some more gelato.

00:05 – We returned back to campus. We skyped some people for a little bit.

00:40 - Ben went to beddy-bye and I stayed up to finish skyping and sorting through emails.  

03:00 –Everyone is asleep, all snuggly in Roma. Nobody is stirring, as if all in a coma. 

Quote of the Day

"Te Italiano Perfecti" (not spelled correctly) - Your Italian is Perfect [Old Bridge worker speaking to Jordan]