Primo Giorno (Day One....)

Bonjourno mi amici,

Day one kicked off with a pickup from our apartment, about 30 min after the time they said they would arrive... And thus began what I believe to be the theme of  the trip. EVERYTHING is slow here, its wonderful don't get me wrong but even the teachers and administrators are late to show up for meetings! Its an interesting adjustment that may take some time to get used to.

-Side Note- Lindsey, Katie and I were the last ones from our group to be dropped off and when the bus driver went to pull our bags off he asked the director of Arcadia if we were there to study or model hahahaha. I guess our bags were heavy? -

We then toured around the city in a very scary bus... which isn't that odd because I'm 99 percent certain that you have to be "certified crazy" to get your licence in Rome... (He drove down the metro tracks.... ya.) But we did get some really pretty pics of Rome and it definitely helped to orient us- sort of. From there we went to this little Pizzaria, which had relatively good food and very beautiful waiters. And might I say Katie was our end of the table's saving grace last night! Since she knew Italian they were all talking to her and the cute one, named Antonio, told her to bring us all back to have dinner again! Ahhhh! (the video depicts this and what I like to call our new posse very well)

Today (Tuesday) was extremely boring so we can tell you about it in a few short bullet points:

1- Apparently Italians don't believe in actual food for breakfast... We ended up eating ham sandwichs that were on white bread with about a pound of mayo.... mmmmm We love mayo for breakfast. Why that you may ask?? They only had that, a rotisserie chicken or pizza....
2- Our room got to school on time, everyone else was late
3- We listened to people talk for five hours
4- They served wine.... with our buffet lunch ....AT THE SCHOOL. I will only pose this question once... Where are we?!
5- We went to get phones/SIM cards, the store (that was similar to ATT) was out of phones...
6-We all got lost on our way to the "Apritivo" reception at 9, they only served bruchetta and wine (And it was in a bookstore).
7- There are crazy scary recycling regulations here!! Very strange.
8-We walked the 4.5 miles home- which was amazing! Everyone in America needs to start walking more. And do it with a Gelato :)

Ciao, for now!