Ok so today was pretty boring. I didn't have class til 12 (intensive italian) but i got up at 830 anyway and went to sign up for a trip to naples, the amalfi coast, and pompeii. all three of those places are places i have been dying to see since forever and am finally gonna get to go! (for free!) so the way my program works, is that we had a mandatory trip to assisi and perugia which was super fun and then we're entitled to one more trip as part of our tuition. so i went as soon as the office opened to be sure i got the trip i wanted and then went to the dollar store. yeah, keeping it real in rome lol. basically i went to a number of book stores, and couldnt find a note book with wide ruled paper. they only write on graph paper here! So I ended up buying a few useful things and only spending a few books which was super nice. it's kinda funny though, the books obvi are super ghetto since they only cost 0,99 so it ended up being that i got two with like pictures of wrestlers on em. ICW im guessing is the italian wwf. and the other one is like this biking thing. My friend, Lisa, got one that in huge letter on the front just says "Thanks to life." we figure something had to have gotten lost in translation.



So then we went to the grocery store and got some essentials but then went home to drop them off because the beginning of class was quickly approaching. So i put my groceries away and talked to Valentina, my Italian Student Companion, about her exam tomorrow. she spoke to me in italian and i could understand most of it but for the most part, her message was lost lol.

so 12 oclock rolled around and lisa and i walked over to campus to try to find out class but couldn't find the classroom we were supposed to be in. of course we stopped for mushroom pizza along the way first, but you know those are just minor details. we walked around the entire building not able to figure it out when we ran into annelise who luckily narrowed it down to 2 possible rooms. so we had intensive italian for 2.5 hours which went pretty quickly cause we did so many group activities. ive never felt like such a first grader in my life. they had us draw pictures of our companions and then converse in italian. so clearly, i'm an amazing artist. I drew my friend Lisa and obvi i am the best artist to ever grace the face of the earth. here's a picture of lisa holding up the picture so we can compare how accurate it is. everytime she or jessie sees it they cant stop laughing. its so funny, its like the same reaction to the wrestler notebooks lol.



here's a closeup of my wonderful art project.



so then after class lisa and i went grocery shopping and bought all kinds of crazy stuff. they don't use as many preservatives in their food here so everything they sell comes in single servings which is the best thing ever. i bought like pesto sauce in single serving containers so that i can just boil some pasta an pour the sauce on when im too lazy to make real sauce. of course i got fresh buffalo mozzarella, olio, salad, fresh vine ripe tomatoes, foccaccia, and laundry detergent. yeah good times. so lisa came over and i made her a staten style tomato sauce with the fresh tomatoes and we had it with some oddly shaped pasta that i can't remember the name of. we enjoyed it with a 2 euro bottle of wine poured into spongebob glasses. here's a picture of me and lisa drinking our vino rosato out of mini mini spongebob glasses. classy.



so lisa stayed and stole our wireless for a lil while. jessie decided to show us her hot new towels from oviesse an modeled them for us. before this one, she was using this lil mini towel the size of the one she's using in the picture. a few nights ago, she pops her head out of the bathroom and is like lisa i'm already undressed and i left my shampoo in the room and my towel will only cover either the top or the bottom half of me do you mind if i just borrow your shampoo for now. so of course i said yes and then today she showed us why the small towels just dont work for her and here are the pictures of her wonderful display.





and so i had bought tape this morning at the wonderful 0,99 store and decided to hang up all of my pictures. i know i told some of you that i had 40 pictures but i realized that i had 40 printed but used a bunch of them for the frames and collages in my room in staten island so i only actually have like 35 pictures here (as if thats not enough). so i made a cute lil picture collage on my closet doors of my tufts friends, my staten friends, and my fam. it ended up coming out pretty nice. here's the picture of my closet doors with the collage plastered on the front. when jessie came home she wasl ike WHOA THATS A LOT OF PICTURES but at the same time was like aww cute i wish i had some of my own.



ok so i guess that's it. i tried a million times to post this but blogger isn't doing too well with the uploading of pictures thing so it took me so long, just trying to upload pictures and then finally deciding to write the entry and then add the pictures later when this thing decides to stop being g (not gangsta). alright, im gonna go do my 5 minutes of italian homework and hopefully publish this entry before i go to bed. ciao, bella :-D