Dave Matthews speaks English :)

Monday consisted of 4 classes and 2 screenings for my Italian Film class. One was Rome, Open City and then Bicycle Thief. I really enjoyed them! After that long day of classes from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. I got back to the apartment and Shauna, my roommate, made delicious chicken parm for all of us. Tuesday I had a field study with my Roman Architecture class. We walked all around Rome and we learned about old buildings, designs, arches, and courtyards that were all relatively close to our school. Our teacher is too cute, she has this British accent when she speaks English and says the funniest things. She explained to us that the richest women back then were prostitutes and they were 1/10th of the population and would have the biggest and nicest houses. She said their lives were amazing and "grand" until they died because they wouldn't be buried and they had to be cut up into pieces hahaha. She's really entertaining.

After that class we had our film class and talked about the screenings of the films we watched. I made a lot of good points in class (woop!) but our teacher is sooo hard to understand. Her English is super choppy and it takes her like 20 minutes to say a sentence and have it make sense and have meaning to it. She also says "no?" after almost every word which is really distracting and unnecessary. I may start a tally next class and I'll let you know how many times she actually said "no?" in an hour, you'll be surprised.

I then had Italian class and after learning the different sounds of "ch" "ci" "ce" "gia" "ge" "gli" and whatnot we had a game of BINGO and my partner and I won!!! Since we won we got a free cafe from our teacher at the bar close to us called Nero's Cafe.

After class I booked it back to the apartment to shower and get ready for the Dave Matthews Concert!! We weren't sure where our seats where or if we were standing or not because ... our tickets were in Italian. We show up and the place is PACKED and it turns out we are on the floor standing (which is so me because I can push up to the front like nothing). I told the girls to get ready, make a train and hold my hand and I (being the obnoxious American that I was) only spoke Italian walking through the crowd pointing to the front saying "mi amica! mi amica!" acting as if I was trying to get to my friend. Needless to say I squeezed my way through hundreds of people and we ended up 3rd row center, right in front of Dave. Unfortunately I forgot my camera (grrrr) so I'll have to wait to put pictures up after my friends upload them. (they are so good because we were so close) He played a lot of new songs but a few old ones too in the end which was awesome (didn't play Ants Marching ... :/ )



The next day I got to sleep in till my class at 12:15 :) twas a pretty normal day of classes - nothing too special. Since Dave Matthews interrupted our Taco Tuesday night the night before, my roommate and I made fajitas on Wednesday!

Today (Thursday) I had a field study super far away with my Medieval Art in Rome class and we went into an old church to see some gorgeous mosaics. Because the church was so full with tourists our teacher had a guy there bring us up to the high balcony which was a gorgeous view and up close to the mosaic. She asked for our interpretations and where we thought they restored it and she loved my answer. After class she asked if I was an Art History major and now she definitely knows my name (brownie points!). I learned a lot today from the field study and got to ask some questions I was wondering about the art we've been seeing during the Roman Antiquity time. After class I justttt made it to my film class because we were so far away from IES. Twas a tad bit boring but I knew I could get Pizza after so I was looking forward to that :) ... always food. After some pizza with pepperoni (not pepperoni it means peppers here) I had my Italian class. After class I went to pick up my free latte macchiato from Nerro's and from my BINGO defeat. Uncle Rocho gave me a call and kept me updated and told me "not to go to a sex store in Amsterdam, because that's why Damien wanted to go" ... that's a quote. haha I'll make sure to stay away. Tonight I made fresh Bruschetta (Brusk-eh-tta) here. It was soooo good. And my roommate Jessica made Italian Mac n Cheese (mostly because they don't have cheddar cheese here!)

Now I'm packing up because at 1 a.m. we are leaving to go to the airport for Amsterdam! I'll update ya more on that when we're back.
I hope the snow stops at home!

tot ziens!
Krista