I'm in ROME!

After unpacking most of my stuff - getting lunch - and walking around the town I'm back to my room and ready to upload videos of our apartment!


I barely slept on the flight here - I was too excited. I did have the seat next to me open though so i could lay out on the two seats which was pretty awesome. BEST PLANE FOOD EVER! Penne and Chicken & Vegetables. They were giving people wine for free if they asked instead of soda and i was going to ask but i wasn't sure what the drinking age was in the air so I was a baby and asked for water.

Once I arrived everything went pretty smoothly - picked up my heavy heavy bags and went to a room with other IES students. After getting a packet of information for the rest of the week I took a taxi to my apartment with my roommate. We got in and chose a bedroom in the apartment and started to unpack. We made a list of things we may need to buy at the supermarket and then went out on the town.



Around 12:30 Italy time (6:30 am NY time!) we went to a restaurant for lunch right next to the Trastevere open market. I ordered Tortellini and white wine (they didn't even card me ... grr) and we sat outside because it was so nice out. The waitress arrived with our pasta that looked like it was microwaved and from lean cuisine and not even mixed around with a spoon. We were confused and sort of disappointed in our first Italian meal, but it was actually not too bad.

After that we walked around the streets of Trastevere and went to the supermarket to pick up necessities: toilet paper, paper towel, dish soap, cups (they didn't provide us with any?!) and something to have tomorrow morning for breakfast.

We came back to our apartment to see that the other two roommates from Villanova just arrived. We told them about parts of the apartment. (in our living room area there is a huge flat screen tv with over 300 channels ... all in italian ... but it's still cool. It also has internet on the TV with a wireless keyboard and mouse! So we can go on surfthechannel.com and catch up on American TV shows in English on a real big TV!

We have a bidet in our bathroom - which is pretty intense. Our shower has a curtain on it now but apparently tomorrow when we are in class they will be putting on a glass door to it.

Energy and hot water aren't very strong in Italy so we have to make sure we all don't take long showers around the same time or have a bunch of electronics on at the same time which will be pretty hard for Mr.Park Chester's daughter.

I'm going to take a 30 min nap before meeting up with friends to go out for dinner so I'll update more this week.

here is the link to pictures uploaded so far.
there will be more

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2033365&id=1376760021&l=9af6d071ed

Ciao!
Krista