It is finally Saturday and I am adjusting to the lifestyle of a true Italian. We have four different types of garbage bags in our kitchen: food and organic waste, glass plastic and metals, paper and cardboard, and everything else. Pat and I also did laundry yesterday for the first time without a dryer, hanging our clothes up all over the apartment and outside on anything and everything. Yesterday we went to a very secluded lake called " Lago Di Martignano " which was amazing. Our whole program took a bus from our center and drove up this mountain to what I thought was comparable to a country club. We got to hang out with everyone and swim, paddle boat, and kayak! They also made us a really good lunch were we were served bread, cheese, sausage, and prescuitto. Oh and they gave us coca-cola in huge glass one liter bottles, I drank water of course. We arrived back at the center in Roma at around 7:00 p.m. and had to wait for our Italian placements. Luckily I placed in beginner Italian with about 50% of the students, some of them are already fluent. Everyone was so tired and ansy to get off that bus because it was our first Friday night in the city. We all walked our separate ways home since all the students live in random apartments scattered all throughout this majestic city. When we got back I Pat and i made angel hair pasta with spinach and baked chicken which was phenomenal.
Around 9:30 pm people starting showing up at our place for a Roman "pregame" it was actually more like a Big Ten conference pregame since we had kids from Indiana and Penn State partying with us. Instead of the usual wine and 24 ounce beers. We got vodka and more vodka with some wine and more wine. All the boys arrived and we watched the new jersey Shore before the girls came, who tend to get lost sometimes but I feel bad for them because some of them live so far away; but it is awesome having them over. After our group of about 25 people hung out for a little at our place we decided to walk to "Campo Di Fiori" which is known as the hang out spot on the weekends. We walked because not everyone has bus passes yet, and riding the bus without a pass is very tricky because if you get caught the patrol guy will take you off the bus and to the nearest ATM and demand you take out 100 Euros to pay him the fine. We walked into a DJ club bar type thing where it was so small but there were tons of the kids from Santa Clara in our program drinking there. The way you get drinks at some bars and clubs is you go pay the cashier and then give the receipt to the bartender. Shots were very cheap (7 Euros for 5 shots of whatever kind of liquor you wanted) so around $9 in the states. After that we were determined to go to a Discoteca called MODE, these are basically dance night clubs. But this one was amazing, first you walk in the door girls pay o Euro and guys pay 10 Euro of course, we always get screwed. You walk down a bunch of stairs to a huge dance club with couches and people everywhere dancing and partying harder than you could ever imagine. It was insane, i loved it. Walking everywhere is starting to hurt everyone's feet and legs but we will get used to it! I went to bed at 5:25 am when the sun was coming up, but got 6 hours of sleep which is the most I have had consistently the whole time I have been on this journey. The plan is to go to Florence on a train this coming weekend. As for tonight we are going to the the Coliseum, for one of the three times all year that they give a tour of it at night! The rest of my day will consist of going to the store to get some cleaning stuff! Maybe nap and then run, dinner, Coliseum and out.
Ciao, kev
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