Adresses and stuff like like:
I'm living at
Via Ambrogio Traversari 72 Scala B Int 10
mailing adress is
(my name)
John Cabot University
Via della Lungara 233
00165 Rome
Italy
No packages, and nothing bigger than the standard letter size. email me about how to get me a package if you are planning on sending one. its a big more complicated a procedure.
Going to the Colluseum later today
19.1.07
18.1.07
18/1/07
Hello all. I'm still trying to get adjusted to the time differences. It's a lot of fun, being tired at 8:30 and trying to go to bed at 10, but not being able to until 4 am, because 4 am rome is 10pm in the states. grrrr. well, running on 4 hours of sleep and running in the morning should make me pass out.
Just had lunch at masse cafe, an "Indiana Jones" which was mozzerella, ham, and mushroom sandwhich. The sandwhich was a quessadilla. So i was siiting in the Trastevere section of Rome, eating a ham cheese and mushroom quessadilla. weird.
Rome is a really small city, my half hour run along the Tiber took me from the outskirts to Campo de Fiori, a good quarter or third of the city. while running, i did not get hit by a car or by a vespa, though i think that was from pure luck rather than anything else.
The Chiquita company needs to sell juice in the States, and all over. The blood orange juice is amazing.
Just had lunch at masse cafe, an "Indiana Jones" which was mozzerella, ham, and mushroom sandwhich. The sandwhich was a quessadilla. So i was siiting in the Trastevere section of Rome, eating a ham cheese and mushroom quessadilla. weird.
Rome is a really small city, my half hour run along the Tiber took me from the outskirts to Campo de Fiori, a good quarter or third of the city. while running, i did not get hit by a car or by a vespa, though i think that was from pure luck rather than anything else.
The Chiquita company needs to sell juice in the States, and all over. The blood orange juice is amazing.
17.1.07
16/1/07
My apartment is really nice. Currently I’m roomed with 2 AU kids, Aaron and Marcello. Marcello is fluent in Italian, so I can mooch off him for a bit. Campus is a 30 min walk away, not too bad, but it will suck in foul weather. I live about 200 feet above the main rode in my section of town, Trestevere.
What’s good about that is that on this street runs a tram that will turn Via de Trestevere from a 20 minute walk to a 5 minute ride, leaving a small 10 minute walk to campus from the station. One guy from AU who is living by me, Frank had ridden the tram several times the earlier day, and did as the Romans do, which basically means, walk on and sit down, ignoring the random performers on the tram (one was playing the violin today), and not paying. So armed with this knowledge, my friends Anne, Vanessa, Frank, and myself hop onto the tram and ride it to school. What we didn’t know is that you do indeed pay for a ticket, just not on the train but at a Tabacchi shop. The police will randomly sweep trams and if you don’t have a ticket or have not validated your ticket, they can fine you up to 40 Euro on the spot. So, I’m gonna get a monthly ticket for 30 Euro as soon as I can.
As far as living goes, Vanessa and Anne live together, and live a brisk 5 minute walk down the hill from me. Kate lives a block over from them, so I have three solid friends within spitting distance. Two of Vanessa and Anne’s roommates seem to be rather cliquey sorority girls, so that will be a tense living arrangement.
Lunch today consisted on mushroom and proscuito pizza and two glasses of red wine at a café by campus called La Scaletta. It was very good and the bottle, split among 4 people, was very cheap, only 10 Euros. Next time we will go with the house wine though, as we are told that they are very cheap and usually quite good.
Not much to report today. Filled out forms and got crazy tired.
My apartment is really nice. Currently I’m roomed with 2 AU kids, Aaron and Marcello. Marcello is fluent in Italian, so I can mooch off him for a bit. Campus is a 30 min walk away, not too bad, but it will suck in foul weather. I live about 200 feet above the main rode in my section of town, Trestevere.
What’s good about that is that on this street runs a tram that will turn Via de Trestevere from a 20 minute walk to a 5 minute ride, leaving a small 10 minute walk to campus from the station. One guy from AU who is living by me, Frank had ridden the tram several times the earlier day, and did as the Romans do, which basically means, walk on and sit down, ignoring the random performers on the tram (one was playing the violin today), and not paying. So armed with this knowledge, my friends Anne, Vanessa, Frank, and myself hop onto the tram and ride it to school. What we didn’t know is that you do indeed pay for a ticket, just not on the train but at a Tabacchi shop. The police will randomly sweep trams and if you don’t have a ticket or have not validated your ticket, they can fine you up to 40 Euro on the spot. So, I’m gonna get a monthly ticket for 30 Euro as soon as I can.
As far as living goes, Vanessa and Anne live together, and live a brisk 5 minute walk down the hill from me. Kate lives a block over from them, so I have three solid friends within spitting distance. Two of Vanessa and Anne’s roommates seem to be rather cliquey sorority girls, so that will be a tense living arrangement.
Lunch today consisted on mushroom and proscuito pizza and two glasses of red wine at a café by campus called La Scaletta. It was very good and the bottle, split among 4 people, was very cheap, only 10 Euros. Next time we will go with the house wine though, as we are told that they are very cheap and usually quite good.
Not much to report today. Filled out forms and got crazy tired.
14.1.07
Leaving
I leave for the airport in half an hour. I hope I have everything, and if i don't, I'll have 3 hours at the airport to realize it. An 8 hour flight awaits, so cross your fingers that I don't end up next to little children or annoying smelly people. Anne, Kate and I should have a good flight if we can get seated with each other, and if not, i'm sure a bit of arm twisting and smiling at the counter workers can work something out.
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