First Week of School as JUNIORS!!!

Bonjourno mi Ammici!


So this week has flown by at the slowest pace possible... its the most perfect contradiction in the world... When discussing what to talk about in the blog this week Katie and I were stumped. So little had happened during the first week of school, really. How much could possibly happen when we have so much real work going on... Just as we were agreeing that there was nothing going on in our life's since we've dedicated 20 hrs a week of our time to classes we remembered:

Monday-
- first day of school... the teachers give you 20 min coffee breaks and only speak broken English. The school has ten class rooms and they are all named..  (Italian in Michelangelo Room anyone?)
- almost being in big trouble because of a noise violation that wasn't our fault... and a subsequent meeting with the director of Arcadia.. Woof.
- Dinner at the posse's house that ended in a night at scholars...

Tuesday-
- Second day of school.... equally ridiculous.. are you sure this is real? Oh and our Mythology teacher just prints stuff out of the book to read- were going to go out on a limb and say he literally doesn't speak or understand English, he just sounds it out phin-et-ic-ally... sweeeetttt.
-We then went with Rachel, Emma and Kelsey to the Piazza Navona for an amazing and beautiful dinner right in front of the famous fountain. ahhhh.... so over priced but sooooo worth it.
- then... THE BEST NIGHT YET HAPPENED!!!! We went with Rachel, Kelsey, Emma, Cuyler, John, Dan and some friends to scholars for KARAOKE night!!!! ahhh. Emma and Kelsey tried to sing but it was packed wall to wall with crazy Americans/Germans/Austrians/Swedes/English/Irish.... ah. everything about this night was unreal! check out pictures to understand.

Wednesday-
-Third day of school!!! Funny thing about it was our teachers still don't speak English... and today Liz's professor gave her a lunch break in the middle of class for half an hour.... I would like to repeat, are you sure this is real school. Then in our masterpieces of the Vatican class the teacher said we would make up the curriculum as we went along.... ya.
- We all then went straight from the school to a different random school for a "team meeting"... sweet. On the way Liz was leading a group of 20 students because for some reason she thinks she knows her way around the city and got us all 45 min lost... she did eventually find it though and in her defence no one else had any idea what to do. Actually though, this was an incredibly fun meeting as we have been given the opportunity of some amazing things to do while we are abroad. For example- we are both working at a soup kitchen to feed hot meals to afghan refugees. Also, Liz is going to be one of four other selected students to participate in an Italian-United Nations immersion program. Should be cool, for her.
- After the meeting we all went to eat CHINESE food..... this was the best cure to an overload of Italian food ever! love it. Then Liz left her camera here.... she clearly didn't have the most "rockstar" day.

Thursday-
- Fourth (and last day) of classes of the week!! Teachers still don't speak English, no changes there.
- We slept... for a really really long time....
- Everyone went out down in Campo De Fiori (which was a serious bore- American bars in Rome? No, Grazie.) So then we all ended up at our favorite place in Rome- Scholars! It was so fun to meet some locals- a dancer from LA turned Holland America cruise lines turned dance club promoter- and some other students who are studying abroad!

Friday-
- NO SCHOOL- do you know what that means?? Shopping on Via Del Corso! Yes that is the Rodeo Drive of Italy :) oh and KB is a BLONDE again!!!
- Then we ate and went to sleep :) nice low key night!

Saturday-
- BEACH DAY! How exciting right?? wrong. It was raining, cold and windy. Unfortunately we didn't realise this until we were there either. It was fun to have a yummy lunch near the ocean though.
- On Saturday night we went to the Clubs in Testaccio.... sooo fun :) (and Liz got all 10 girls in for free everywhere we went... awesome)

We guess in retrospect we had a pretty amazing week. Look forward to much more exciting posts in the future :)

Ciao, For now...