Trying to catch up on my blog as fast as I can. On Monday we went to class for the first time in a week! My life is so awesome. After class we met up with Kelsey, had lunch, and then walked to show her the Piazza Navona and the Pantheon. The Pantheon is so cool and it was fun showing Kelsey around Rome. After we did our little tour we took her to Zara, which she had never been to before. I saw those sparkly shoes I was eyeing last time and I still love them! But I'm saving my money for my shoe purchase until the last week in Rome. After that we walked around some more and then went back to the Rome Center where they had set up a movie night. We watched an italian film called La Nostra Vita and as soon as it was over the director came in for a question and answer. It was such a well done movie and the director was so awesome! I definitely recommend that movie for movie lovers and foreign film lovers. The cinematography was fantastic, most of the script was improv and very well done, and the entire thing was filmed and edited in only 10 weeks. Crazy. After the movie we ended up going with the boys to a greek place for dinner where we had kebabs. Totally delicious. I enjoyed it a lot. Except they mosquitoes there and I ended up getting three mosquito bites, all, of course, on my face. Since I have that weird reaction to mosquito bites, one of them looks like I just have a gigantic goose egg on my forehead. Lovely. After dinner we went back to the boys apartment to hang out for a while and then we went out to the bars because we found one where they were doing a 2 for 1 drink special for students. I definitely got a little drunk and decided it would be a fantastic idea to drunk dial Mom and Stephanie. Luckily, they thought it was hilarious. After a couple hours at the bar (we ended up leaving when they closed at 2) we all headed home and went to bed where I learned the joys of the room spinning when you first lay down when you're drunk.
Martedi-
Our morning field trip was cancelled today so we didn't have class until 2 so I didn't even get out of bed until 11:30. Such a wonderful relaxing morning. I caught up on homework and blogging and it was just a wonderful morning. Then we grabbed some pizza on the way to class. Class was interesting today. In 103 we talked about suffixes and number ordinals. All very fascinating stuff. But I learned how to say swear words! "Parolacce". Then we had the culture class where we talked about the Italian Family, the attitudes of men towards women, and the laws that go along with that attitude. We learned about how divorce only became legalized in Italy in 1973, but even then you had to be separated for 7 years and have proof for the judge that you tried to work it out before a judge would grant the divorce. All of this is a direct influence of the catholic church on italian politics. It took until very recently for them to be able to lower the amount of time you have to wait from 7 to 3 years. Then we learned about how 50% of Italian men admit to cheating on their wives and 40% of italian women admit to cheating on their husbands. Cheating is considered to be the lesser evil compared to divorce in italy because if you cheat, you confess to your priest and get in minor trouble, but you get divorced and you're barred from every taking holy communion again. It's all very political.
After class we walked home and made dinner real quick before we had to walk to the Piazza del Popolo to go to a soccer game with our entire program! It was Inter Milan vs AS Roma. I still think soccer is boring, but watching the crowd was so much fun. It reminded me of high school basketball games where everybody knows special cheers and songs and when to use them and everything. Totally fun. They were waving flags and yelling every swear word that exists in Italian (I officially know them all now), and throwing fireworks on to the concrete part of the field: M-80's, flares, and other smokers and sparklers. Totally freaked me out when I first heard an M-80 go off. Inter Milan scored the only goal of the game. We all left 5 minutes early though so we could beat the crowds. One of our professors is from Milan and he said it was very hard to restrain himself when Inter scored (he was wearing a AS Roma jersey so he wouldn't get beaten up. All the Inter fans were in a tiny section surrounded on all sides by security guards). Then we walked back to Campo for crepes and then back home to go to bed! And now I am officially got up with my blog. Finally. Buonanotte!
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