Italia: January 14-17

Roma, Jan 14-17:
Rome is beautiful. Absolutely amazing. The area around campus is really nice and the view from my window is beautiful.

The flight was good, long but not too bad. This made me laugh, and I know R would enjoy this: on the plane we had two options for food-he looked at us and said "there's fish and chicken but we don't have any chicken left so u can have fish" which totally reminded me of "cake or death."

The first day we got there (10am) we had registration, met our roommate and went to dinner at a nearby restaurant. There was so much delicious food- appetizers upon appetizers with a main dish (pasta of course, I'm gonna be so sick of pasta by the end of this semester) and then a delicious dessert-we're not quite sure what it was, maybe some kind of mousse or pudding covered with an amazing chocolate sauce. Then, since some of us were wound up from being out and in Italy so we went out. So after being up for over 30 hours we finally came back and went to sleep.
Then Saturday we had more registration stuff to do and an Italian survival class where we learned some Italian phrases that we should probably know. Then after dinner we had free time so a huge group of is went to get gelato and walk around-Spanish steps, Fontanna Di Trevi and other random spots there. We got a bit lost going between places bit that's the fun part-getting lost is the best way to explore a city. In the past few days we walked soo much-my legs hurt and I really feel that it's pointless to go to the gym cause although there's a lot of food there's also a ton of walking so u walk all the food off. We keep exploring and getting lost so that doubles, if not triples, how much we'd normally walk in a day. And it feels like everything is up hill-the saying "I walked up hill both ways to school probably originated in Italy :p I'm gonna be so fit when I get back, especially with all the stairs i get to climb not only to get to my room but also the random stairs that we got to climb up to get from the bus back to school. It's pretty much 3 flights of stairs. After we got back, my roommate and I talked for a bit and then went to sleep, trying to get some sleep before leaving for Assisi.
So now we're on the bus on our way to Assisi. The scenery is incredible and will only get better as we get closer.
So let's see what Assisi brings this weekend!
The people here are great. Everyone's super friendly and excited to get to know everyone else. Its so weird to think that we're here for school. It feels like a vacation and though classes will prob bring us back to reality i doubt it'll do much since i doubt the classes will be hard and with all the traveling we'll be doing... Its more like a vacation with random classes interspersed. I cant wait! Also just being in Italy really makes me want learn Italian so i cant wait for Italian 101! I need to learn how to get around without looking like totally lost and confused. Being in Italy also makes me realize how much Spanish I know-every time I need to say something I automatically think Spanish cause it's so similar to Italian. Yesterday I think I actually managed to combine Spanish and Polish into one sentence trying to figure out how to say something in Italian.

This trip really is a once in a lifetime opportunity that anyone who can should take. It's absolutely incredible and already, after being here for only a few days I'm having the time of my life!! I'm so glad I decided to do this :)