since i haven't posted in a million years
I totally forgot that I had an LJ. Theo reminded me the other day so here i am.
Does anybody know if the facebook thing is true? They say it's shutting down next week or something??? I have all of my pictures on there and they are not saved anywhere else...so all of my precious memories of Europe etc will be lost forever if it's true.
Sooooo...i'm in Rome now. I spent four weeks in France which was nice cause i got to practice speaking and saw a lot of old friends and more of the country. Last week I came here to Rome. It's about 110 degree with no Air conditioning anywhere because the europeans believe that AC and ice cubes make you sick. So i'm hugging a fan and eating lots of gelato. I go to florence on friday where it's supposed to be even hotter:)
Rome is so beautiful. I'm surrounded by ancient ruins and huge statues and monuments built by roman gods! it's unreal how much history is in this city. Everything is soooo old, which i love. However it's extremely disorganized which is incredibly frustrating. The last two nights we've had to walk home at midnight about 5 miles i guess because the buses decided to stop running. Public transportation here is the absolute worst!!! it really makes me miss Paris...where you can go anywhere in the city in less than 20 minutes. They have 18 metro lines, buses that have schedules and arrive on time etc. Here in Rome a city as big at least they have two metro lines that don't even connect the whole city and buses that arrive when the driver feels like it. you may wait an hour or just 5 minutes and have three show up at the same time.
Regardless i'm glad to be here while I can and i'm improving my italian already.
today i'll wait in a 5 mile line to see the vatican and sistine chapel. i'm going to buy a book first:)
Guess that's about it. Sorry my posts are not as entertaining as theo's:)
Does anybody know if the facebook thing is true? They say it's shutting down next week or something??? I have all of my pictures on there and they are not saved anywhere else...so all of my precious memories of Europe etc will be lost forever if it's true.
Sooooo...i'm in Rome now. I spent four weeks in France which was nice cause i got to practice speaking and saw a lot of old friends and more of the country. Last week I came here to Rome. It's about 110 degree with no Air conditioning anywhere because the europeans believe that AC and ice cubes make you sick. So i'm hugging a fan and eating lots of gelato. I go to florence on friday where it's supposed to be even hotter:)
Rome is so beautiful. I'm surrounded by ancient ruins and huge statues and monuments built by roman gods! it's unreal how much history is in this city. Everything is soooo old, which i love. However it's extremely disorganized which is incredibly frustrating. The last two nights we've had to walk home at midnight about 5 miles i guess because the buses decided to stop running. Public transportation here is the absolute worst!!! it really makes me miss Paris...where you can go anywhere in the city in less than 20 minutes. They have 18 metro lines, buses that have schedules and arrive on time etc. Here in Rome a city as big at least they have two metro lines that don't even connect the whole city and buses that arrive when the driver feels like it. you may wait an hour or just 5 minutes and have three show up at the same time.
Regardless i'm glad to be here while I can and i'm improving my italian already.
today i'll wait in a 5 mile line to see the vatican and sistine chapel. i'm going to buy a book first:)
Guess that's about it. Sorry my posts are not as entertaining as theo's:)