Pictures!
Today's pictures: Views from our apartment's wrap-around balcony.
And another...
I got my luggage back today. It's such a relief to have my stuff back safely in my hands.
So today was orientation session number one. My roommates and I walked to the school from our apartment. It's a pretty decent hike. We were't quite sure how to get there, so we ended up taking a very roundabout route and asking for directions several times, which was interesting given that we don't speak Italian. I can say "Where is", and my roommate Aurora knew how to say "the American University", but apparently not many Romans are familiar with either AUR or the tiny little side street the school's located on. There's another American University here, John Cabot University, that most of the people we asked tried to direct us to. I think there's also a street with a similar name to the one AUR is on that's on the other side of the city. We were directed there a couple times too. Hopefully we'll either learn how to get to the school or learn how to ask for directions properly quickly. My roommate Dana helped me get my luggage back to the apartment after orientation (we took a taxi; one of the school officials called it for us and told the taxi driver where to go so he wouldn't get lost and we wouldn't get ripped off), then we went out for dinner together. We ended up going to a Chinese restaurant that's just down the road from our apartment. It was the first restaurant we came to and it was pretty cheap as well. The food was really good, though apparently we came a bit early for dinner (we got there just before 7:30, which is apparently early for dinner in Italy), so we'll have to work on eating at a more "normal" time. Anyways, today was a good day. More orientation-type stuff tomorrow.
posted by Stacey @ 11:00 PM
7 Comments:
Yeah, only stupid Americans would go to dinner at 7:30. The key to Italian life is: wake up at 8 and have breakfast, take a nap at noon, eat lunch 2ish, then head out on the town around 9 to find somewhere to eat.
Can't believe that view though; it's going to be a tough semester for you.
-adam
Stacey! I am so excited for you to be in Italy! Have fun! keep posting the blogs... they bring me back to my days in southern D-land.
Belle!
Kristen
The view from your balcony is gorgeous!
I'll need your mailing address at some point soon :)
Hey! Just got your email, decided to come check out your blog. I'm glad you've decided to keep one because I find it interesting :-D. Hope everything is going well in Italy! Send me a postcard or something ;). And I added you to my blogroll too :). Talk to you later!
Nothing quite like living abroad, eh? Enjoy the adventure!
Hi Stacey!!
It sounds wonderful to be in Rome :)
I hope you have a great stay in Europe.
-Heather
I totally experienced the same thing trying to find AUR..a friend and I asked a local for directions and no one ever heard of the school..lol
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