this is really from january 22nd.
Directly copied from my written diary. Might have lots of mistakes. I’ve done no editing and my sorry for that. Really. (plus the sentences are really short and not that informative. Oh well, maybe more later.)
First written journal entry, I’ve been using my computer. Which is better? I have no idea.
Well…
Yesterday we went to Rome. It was nice. Actually, I really liked it. No; loved the bigness of it. It was: loud, refreshing, expensive… and a plethora of other things. It was big. There were so many people. It wasn’t quiet. The only thing I didn’t like was that there was too much English around. NOone would speak to us in Italian-even if we spoke to them in Italian. Very frustrating, to say the least. How am I supposed to learn Italian if you’re just going to use English all the time? At least in Viterbo there are people who don’t speak English so I can only use my Italian (and French, too).
Nonetheless, I realized how much I miss being in the city… or a city… with people around. It makes being here all alone a little bit better (even though I was in rome with a bunch of Americans), to hear people talking all the time, see people all the time. Don’t get me wrong, I do like the quiet, but here it’s always quiet and it freaks me out. Makes me more scared than I need to be.
Anyways… here’s what we did while in Rome:
-Saw the outside of the coliseum-it was, of course, beautiful. However, we did not get the chance to go inside.
-Saw a bunch of other ruins which were ruined by all the tourists being around (and there were surprisingly a whole bunch of French people… very cool).
-Saw the Spanish Steps. But… what exactly are they? (besides a kind of pretty staircase). What is so important about them? We didn’t know, but went anyway. They were not impressive.
-Went to a little outdoor caffe where they sold hamburgers and French fries-I had a dry martini at 2 pm.
-Went to get some gelato and paid 9.50 euro for a bunch of junk (although it was good, definitely not worth the 10 dollars).
-Went to an English/Anglo Saxon book store. Very cool. They had those really high bookshelves with the ladders I want. It was not organized very well, however, so I had to leave as it gave me a headache (this is how OCD I am).
-Walked around. Saw the biggest Prada or Fendi store in the world. Didn’t go in. Went to the Guess? Store.
-Took a subway for the first time ever.
All in all… good trip. I want to go back just to look at things. I didn’t think I’d like it that much… but I did. However, would never study there, or live there, probably.
Here are some random things I miss from ‘home’:
--Easy internet access
--Coffee. Long coffee they call it here.
--Driving. Even though I definitely don’t need to. I miss my little purple car.
--Heat in the house. I’ve come to the conclusion that I am used to far more extremes than there are here. For instance, outside I am not cold while everyone else freezes; but inside, I believe it to be frigid. Furthermore, the heat is turned off at night.
--My shoes (I know, how frivolous of me, but I really wish I would have brought my boots and my black pumps)
--My double bed. This bed is so tiny I almost fall off every night.
--Knowing how go get places by myself without having to ask a million times (although, I suppose this might get better with time… hopefully anyways).
--Having a shower that’s bigger than two feet by two feet and hot water that lasts more than 9 minutes.
--My books (four is never enough, especially because they put me in stupid classes).
--Having all of my music.
And, the other day I got my lady (Senora, the lady I live with… but I’ve grown accustomed to calling her my lady for some reason) to listen to Fiona Apple and she loves her. It’s awesome.
Pictures of Rome to come as soon as I figure out how to put them on here. Any one wanna give me a couple tips? Grazie!