Another Week

I haven't been as good about updating as I would have liked... I guess this past weekend was slightly less eventful than the preceding ones though. Classes have continued pretty well. I'm particularly fond of Maurizio, our instructor for Masterpieces of the Vatican as well as Renaissance and Baroque art. We hit the ground running, all over Rome, and despite being in his fifties (I would assume) we usually have trouble keeping up with him and he's absolutely bursting with information.

This is our first weekend that we remained in Rome. Friday was a day trip through the school to Ostia, where we thought we (or at least I) thought we'd be hanging out at the beach we've been encouraged to check out there, but instead Claudio (the Roman Emporers and Archeology professor who is also very knowledgeable but tends to ramble and thus can lose our attention from time to time) took us on an excursion of ancient Ostia, which used to serve as the primary port town. Not exactly what we were expecting, but we did see some cool things and were able to make it back to Rome just in time for me to get to work on my expert Italian skills when the wireless guy and landlord came by. Yeah, having, "Sorry, we can't fix your hot water heater, I'll give you a call when we find out more," said to you in a foreign language, and being able to understand and respond, is endlessly gratifying. Kind of. Minus the cold shower for 3 days part. We were content to spend the rest of the evening doing absolutely nothing and having a great time of it.

Saturday the girls and Scott made good on our plans to eat at Hard Rock Cafe. I wasn't as desperate for an Amercian food fix as some, but it was alright. Next time I'm dying for a veggie burger and some nachos and have 30 euro to blow I know right where to head.

Scott and I had age-old plans to check out this club Alien I had heard of from a few sources, and after meeting up with the rest of the guys, striving to find non-American-filled places to hang out beforehand, trekking the streets of Rome up and down in uncomfortable heels to finally find a taxi that could get us there, our hopes were less than fulfilled in finding that we had to pay way more than we were thinking, and that we were in the small minority that was over eighteen there. Solid.

Sunday we absolutely just chilled out, and now I'm on my four hour break between classes before heading to Mythology. Erin just got a bunch of DVDs mailed to her from her dad, so I think we're gonna have an apartment movie night watching Gladiator tonight. Wednesday we're having a dress up dinner party at our place that I'm looking forward to. Aaaand... that's all for now.