Miei Amici e Mia Famiglia (My Friends and Family)

First things first, I am going to teach you some valuable lessons for your next trip a Roma. 1: Do NOT wear heels on the old cobblestone streets (a.k.a never wear heels), you will trip and fall. 2: Do NOT engage Italian men in American bars – there are blatantly only in American bars for one reason – otherwise, they could simply join their friends at Italian bars. 3: Do NOT attempt to use a blow dryer in a convent (haha, so applicable to all of you, I’m sure). Using a blow dryer will either cause your entire room to lose power and it will not fit in outlets, therefore making you resort to blindly blowing your hair dry in the dark hallway with no mirror. So, overall lots of positive advice. Lastly, 4: Do NOT take flowers from other citizen’s backyards because karma will come to you, causing you to be highly allergic to the beautiful roses that you so prettily placed in a vino bottle on your windowsill. Well, I think that is all of the significant information that I have for you now. If other PRESSING matters like these come up, I will be sure to inform you, so that you are not mislead by small, seemingly unimportant facts that will annoy you to death.

Anyway, I write to all of you this morning with puffy blindly-blown out hair, sneezes from my deceptively pretty flowers, and slippers. Today is my first day of classes (wooohoooo, hollerrr) oh, wait, classes?!? So I guess that assuming that I could do whatever I so pleased this semester was wrong since I am taking five classes that meet several times each week. But, oh well, I guess I’ll just be forced to attend Italian food and culture (ugh haha KIDDING). Thus far, my time here has been fabulous filled with walking tours (DRINK WATER, by the way, or your legs will fall off). Oh, right that’s another lesson for all of my avid readers – HYDRATE, HYDRATE, HYDRATE! Walking around causes your legs to HURT sooooo drink plenty of acqua. Otherwise, you will find, like I did, that it is difficult to even put your socks on.

Well, classes have been great thus far. I have a whopping three other students in my Italian class – so I’m sure the teacher is quite overwhelmed. Other than classes a few friends and I wandered around the nearby town area to explore a bit on our own. Thankfully, we did not get lost! Instead, we were rushing to find bottled water, hair products, blankets, and flowers (the essentials, of course). And we did it! And were still in time for lunch, YUM. We have literally had pasta for every single meal (other than breakfast) since I have arrived and I have yet to become sick of it. Italian pasta is AMAZING – I would simply live and die here for the sole purpose of eating rigatoni bolognese and tiramisu.

Hmmm… let’s see… other exciting things that happened today… OH! I found my camera cord so I can finally show you all my travels versus solely telling you all about them. I will post pictures posthaste! I believe that is all for now, again, I’ll be back tomorrow so look forward to reading more haha.

Ciao! (also means bye haha)

Giacomina