after day 1

in the computer lab now at IES. waiting for an hour for my cell phone because everyone is getting them here.

Last night we went to dinner near our friends apartment a little south of us. We had bruschetta, spaghetti, tiramasu, and red wine for only 10 euros! That place has that special for students and they change the main dish each week! It was awesome. We went there with the 2 girls from PSU, my roommate, their roommates and friends. After that we stopped at their apartment which was really big and they had a dish washer which i was super jealous of. We then took the tram to Campo Di Fiori to a bar called the Drunken Ship. On the tram I actually ran into a kid, Evan from my high school who was studying abroad too! He told us he was going to the bar Scholars for their Karaoke night so ... obviously I wanted to go. After Drunken Ship we walked a few blocks to Scholars and I did Shaggy's "It Wasn't Me" which was pretty funny. Those bars are filled with a lot of students studying abroad. We actually met up with 3 guys that my friends knew from PSU at The Drunken Ship. After that we took a taxi home.

Nicole and I slept through both of our alarms this morning (probaby due to the fact that the last time we slept was Sunday night) so thank goodness our roommates woke us up. I took the shortest shower of my life (shower is super cold) and took the tram three spots North and walked to IES for our first day. After meetings and information sessions they had a big buffet brunch for us with was Awesome. After that Jessica, Shauna (my roommates) and I walked around and over the bridge to Castel San'Angelo (which was huge and gorgeous). We then walked over to the Vatican (super cool to just walk over to another country ... no biggie) I took a bunch of pictures there. It was an amazing experience to be there. They had a nativity scene set up in the center of the key hole (just learned about that today from Shauna) and there was a big Christmas tree up too.

On the way back to IES I bought a really pretty scarf from a vender on the street. We are now back at IES and I'm just waiting around now.

Ciao!
Krista