- Woke up at 8 to shower for our orientation.
- Walked 45 minutes to our class where we learned about Rome and "cultural" things like how Italians don't understand service and are rude. Also learned that Accent, the company that runs our trip is amazing and is capable of handling any problem we have.
- Class went from 10-12 where we then walked 45 minutes back to our room, dropped off our packets, went shopping, I bought food, it was expensive, walked back to our room. Died.
- Walked back to the Accent Center at 3:00pm for another class about Italian at 4. It was a 2 hour crash course in simple phrases and we got material about it. Our professor was cool and I picked it up fairly fast because it's similar to Spanish. After, our professor took us to a Gelataria for gelato where I almost forgot to pay because I was trying to speak Italian. On the way, however, an old man on a bike was ringing his bell for us to move. I, being completely dead in the mind, ignored it and got a good poke from the man as he passed me. It was pretty funny stuff.
- After, a small group of us, Caryn, Elli, Kari, Joe, and I, decided to continue our massive tour of the city. Here is an incomplete list of everything we saw, i'll go into more detail about them later.
- Piazza Navona
- Pantheon
- Trevi Fountain
- Spanish Steps
- Villa Borghese
- Monument to Vittorio Manuelle
- In between the Villa Borghese and the monument, we went out to eat and had some italian pizza. Fun times!
- After that, we saw a crazy woman on a street who had a scary grouchy voice. She seemed to be cursing us, and sounded a lot like this. I couldn't get over how amazing seeing this woman was... so COOL!
- On our walk back to the room, just a bit ago, our group got on a tram because we couldn't walk. On this tram sat a bearded man, with his foot on the chair next to him. I stood next to his foot. This man began spitting, spitting, spitting all over his seat, including the one where his foot was on. I tried desperately to ignore it, and most were giving him disgusted, but wow... it was hard. He then preceded to make a gun gesture with his hand, pulling back on his thumb to reload, he shot the people around him making explosion noises. Then, it seemed he had detonated himself, because he too exploded. By the end of our ride, he was shouting... something... I'm not really sure. But I thought he was becoming more violent, so we quickly exited the tram knowing that we could walk once more.
- I'm back in my room, it's 11:45, and I do not want to know how much I walked today... Guhhh...
Monday, May 23, 2011
Too Tired To BLOG!
I'm too tired to blog right now, so i'm going to quickly give a run-down of today so I don't forget. Come back later for an edited version with more detail.
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This turned out to be a pretty large blog, but there is more. XD
ReplyDeleteplease please PLEASE don't edit this! it just so perfectly captures how it felt to get home last night... write another one instead :)
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ReplyDeleteSounds like a trip to Cedar Point without getting on any of the rides.
ReplyDeleteAlso you need to get on skype you whore
ReplyDeleteI won't edit, I put a TLDR on the next one, and I'd rather just whore around... whoever you are. :D
ReplyDeleteOh, and this is much better than Cedar Point. >_<
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