The best things in life are unexpected

The more and more as time flies by, the harder it is for me to keep up with my blog. This week we started out week of intensive Italian where we have class for about two hours a day and try to learn the basic skills to communicate with the locals. For me, it is not going so well. I always confuse everything in Italian with all the Spanish that I have learned over the years but Spanish is also in a weird way helping my Italian. I am in class with a few of my friends Jimmy, Gina, Alex, and Tyler which is always fun. We have had class all week 3:30 - 5:30. As for running in Rome I am keeping up with it because every time I go running I discover something new and interesting about the city that we all reside in. Yesterday on my run I went the opposite way down the river through grassy and sandy paths, about 5 miles down river I ran up a bridge and witnessed an amazing sight of crazy graffiti all over this one factory. Usually there is random graffiti all over this city but this place was different there were bubble 3-D letters covering the whole entire building in every color you could imagine. More colorful than you could ever imagine. I used to think graffiti was just there to make someones mark but the more and more I stare at the artwork all over Rome the more I feel like it has more meaning than just someone breaking the law. Tuesday night was my birthday, we were planning on going to Ice bar which is a bar completely 100% made of ice which would have probably been pretty funteresting but instead we went to Campo Di Fiori the local hang out for younger kids our age. Tons of kids from our program came out for my birthday so that was nice being with everyone. Yesterday I thought that I had Italian at 3 for some reason so I walked to the center and luckily Gina was there early too! I came home and took a nap which was much needed because we did not get home until very late the night before. I woke up sometime around 8:00 p.m. and got to go out to dinner with Sarah which was awesome as expected. We met at the Vatican and then went to this little restaurant called "Piacere Molise" I had pasta with shrimp and cochera and she had fried eggplant; both dishes were outstanding. Then out of no where on our walk home there was a firework display off in the distance which was remarkable and unexpected! Yesterday was yet another awesome day and night here in Italy.

As for the rest of my day, I am going to hit up the center a little early and study because we have our first Italian quiz tomorrow. Plus it is Thursday tonight so we will most likely be going out with everyone. Hope all is well at home.

kev