I arrived in Rome, Italy in one piece! The plane instructions were all first given in Italian, then in English. This was pretty exciting, I felt like I was already getting a taste of the culture before even leaving the tarmac. The man who was sitting next to me noticed that I spoke English and was studying from a little Italian book my sister gave me. He called over his daughters (Sonia and Sophia), and we ended up talking for like an hour and a half. They were so nice, and we were both curious about the other's culture. They helped me with my phrase book. After our lovely plane food (which, of course, I forgot to inform the airline that I'm a vegetarian so I got a roll and cheese, yumm), the dad made the girls go to their seats to try and sleep. I ended up falling asleep too, and woke up with only 25 minutes of our flight left!
After our flight landed at 7:30 am, and Nick and I got our bags (I was so happy that my luggage didn't get lost; I was so nervous about that!), we went to where the customs sign was, and there was no customs!? We spent a solid five minutes looking for it, but we didn't find it :( Which meant I didn't get my passport stamped, sadly :(. We had a lot of time to kill once we decided there wasn't a customs to go through. We sat down on a bench and took turns washing up the best we could in the airport bathroom. Two Bentley kids (Jeff and Christine) found us, and we got to know them in the next 3 hours that it was just us four in the airport.
I grabbed a tomato mozzarella panini at the airport, and let me tell you, this was no Panera Bread. This was Chef Express: Italian food. It was good for airport fast food. We didn't get picked up until 11:50 am! We were so tired and bored at this point, and we had to lug our bags to our bus, which was quite a long distance away. Then we had to wait another hour until everyone arrived at the bus.
I fell asleep on the bus, and when I woke up, we were stopped at another Chef Express. I fell back asleep, and when I woke up again, it turns out the bus had broken down, so we had to wait three hours for that to get fixed. We all went inside and people bought sandwiches and waters and ice creams.
It turned out we were only a twenty minute busride from there to our hotel, Hotel Tuscania. I am rooming with Jill Bouchard for this week. We showered, then had orienation, saw some of the town, and then ate at a restuarant. The restarant had a pasta course, a veggies course (grilled with oil and bread crumbs), and a brownie dessert. It was delicious.
This is the pasta dish, with zucchini!
And this was the veggies course. The top left were really really good potatoes!
And finally, the dessert! I was a little apprehensive to try it at first (what was that yellow stuff!?) but it ended up being like a brownie covered in cream. Delicious.
Then we went out and explored on our own a little. I got to get on the internet, which was nice. Now it's midnight and I'm going to try and sleep!
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