Thursday, January 27, 2011

Campus and Albano

So the last couple days have been spent mostly on campus. Yesterday we had all five of our classes back to back in the Aula Magna (our big classroom). It was tiring. After classes Alex and I went to DEM once again. Later in the afternoon we had a meeting about student life. I wasn't feeling well and it seemed to go on forever. We spent the evening hanging out on campus. Spencer and I watched Kill Bill. It was a very uneventful evening.
Today we didn't have classes until the afternoon. This morning we had room inventory and then Alexandra and I have to go do permisso at the post office. Permisso is getting all checked in with immigration. We opted not to take the ride back to campus and wandered around Albano after we finished at the post office. There was an open-air market thing where we found an alarm clock, a thing with shelves to hang in the closet, and a laundry hamper. We found our bus stop after asking a very nice Romanian lady who took us to it and explained how to find the right bus. After we were sure we knew how to get home we went to a bar by the bus stop for lunch. In Italy bars are not places where you go to drink in the evenings, they sell food and other things. Sometimes they have convenience store type things, like packaged snacks and bottled soda and beer. A lot also have espresso. A few have lottery tickets. They are all quite random. I had pizza (which they fold together like a sandwhich) and Alex had some sort of breaded/fried fish and veggie pastry....
We must now go to dinner. They we are off to Saints and Sinners tonight.... Tomorrow we are going to the catacombs.

4 comments:

  1. You sound busy. What is Saints and Sinners like? The catacombs are so cool! I envy you!

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  2. Saints and Sinners is OK. It's apparently more of an American and Irish pub than it is Italian. They just give you the bottle with no glass if you order a Hieken (sp?) or a Budwiser. Apparently that is not at all proper in most places. I got a coke in a bottle today and later a beer with lunch and both times the person behind the counter opened it and gave me a cup. Apparently they do that even at the snack carts on the streets in the city. The carts in the city have beer and no pretzels... it is so odd to see that. I am going to have pretzels in Vienna. I miss them.

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  3. I thought Saints and Sinners was some kind of theology club! LOL! I guess people can get pretty philosophical in a pub.....

    Okay, now I'm craving a hot pretzel.

    (Warning: Mommy moment coming up.) Watch all that drinking. I just read a great book called Parched about a girl who became an alcoholic. Very good book but very scary too.

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  4. Haha, the theology club is called Dead Theologian's Society and it starts tomorrow...

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