Day one ish

Hello my family and friends!

I have created this blog so you can follow me in my travels in Italy and else where.

I live in one of the richest neighborhoods in Rome, about 8 blocks from the Vatican! I saw it yesterday and was absolutly amazed! The walls were so high and me and my friends discused how people could get in through the walls. Conclusion- you can't. Mabye one pro could scale the wall but that takes time and procision, and they would deffinatly shoot you down before you could even get to the top. But idk who would actualy want to try and scale a wall to kill men of god.

My apt is strange. The way I keep describing it is a verrry Italian apt. Its on the 5th floor of a building stuck inbetween other buildings that are inbetween other buldings. Typical of course for city life, thats not what shocked me. What was like o m g for me was the fact that my apt is sooooo small! there are only two bedrooms, luckialy I called dibs on the room with the balcony haha! So yeah we have a balcony which is fucking awsome, I like to in the mornings just watch people open up their shops and continue on with life. Mostly I can watch them do this becuase I am still Jet laged and have been waking up at like 7am!!!! Christ.

The other parts of our apt include hot water but you only get 30 mins of it before in runs out and you have to wait an hour for it to heat up again. umm our kitchen is soooo small! Oh we have one of those butt cleaners hahaha! There is no living room just a hall that leads to all of this.

My Roomate is from UCSC as well! I love her! I just know we are going to have like the most amazing time ever! but I wish the other two girls are as active. I mean like they are sooo nice but it seems like they are out of their comfort zone so me and Britt are going to try and make them feel more aqianted.

I saw my school yesterday! It is absolutly gorgeous. And the people who run the program are so nice and helpful! haha all four of the women who live and work here are all forgien but they said that they moved to Rome because they all feel in love with a Roman. So their is hope. However, its kinda weird because as women we have to be incredably standoffish because the roman men will sqeeeze on you so hardcore. They said that Rome will teach you how to become paranoid.

Another problem we went over is loud Americans! haha! and I realized just how loud I am. We were in this pizza place and I was talking about this that and the other when my friend was like shhh and I stoped talking and I realized it was dead quite in the pizza place. It was bizzare. And like I was talking to my friend on the street about finding an ATM when this girl in front of us turned around and was like Oh yeah Americans too! but told us that we really need to keep our voices down because not so nice people will target us because we are american and generaly are wealthy. Also when you get a few drinks in me, I am so loud I love to talk and flirt and we are suppose to be so standoffish. Blah. how boring.

Well I will post pictures soon I havn't taken enough of what I want to post so I will get back soon.

Ciao!