Celebrating the First Week of Classes!

Yesterday, Thursday started out with a trip to the school book store.  It is called the Anglo American Bookstore, and is on the other side of the river from school way far away!  I got on the bus with Casey and Bliss and we followed the route that JCU gave us as directions.  We eventually made it to the bookstore, and realized that it opened at 10:30 AM not 10:00 AM like JCU told us.  Oh well, no big deal.  It gave us an excuse to go to a cafe and I got my first cappuccino in Italy!  It was so good!  It only cost me 1 Euro too!  

After we left the bookstore with most of our books (some of them were on back order) we got on bus number 53 because it said that it would stop at Argentina (the stop for the tram to go to school).  What the three of us didn't know was that we needed to look for Largo de Argentina, not just Argentina on the bus stop schedule.  Needless to say, 45 minutes and 25 stops later, we got to Argentina and ended up on the complete opposite side of Rome than we should have been on.  We were so lost and had no clue where we were!  We called the Study Abroad Italy office and told them our situation.  The nice ladies there figured out a bus route to get us back, so 2 buses, one hour, and 30 stops later we were back to school.  I ended up missing my Abnormal Psychology class, so I only had two classes yesterday instead of three.  Casey and I decided that the only way to recover from this horrific ordeal would be to go out for some beers tonight! My Italian class is going great, and I'm learning the basics about this awesome language!  I even  taught Mom, Dad, and Lauren a couple phrases when we Skyped the other evening!  My History of the Catholic Church class is AWESOME and I'm learning so much!  It's definitely my favorite class over here so far.  

When we all got read to go out for dinner, Casey, Bliss, and our friend Tynisha from Northern Kentucky University went to a small restaurant around the corner from our apartment.  The woman who owns it is very sweet, and very funny.  Last night, Casey, Bliss, and I all ordered cheese pizza and Tynisha ordered Lasagna.  The woman kind of rolled her eyes and smiled at us and then looked at Tynisha and said "Four Lasagna" and shook her hand and walked away.  10 minutes later, four steaming plates of AMAZING lasagna were brought to our table and the woman came back and asked us, "You like?" and we all said "Si! Grazie!"  It was one of the funniest dinners we have had, and it was a great way to try something new.  After we were done with dinner, it was time to gather the roomies and the rest of the ladies from the apartment and hit up Roma for the evening!  We ended up walking to another side of the town for like 25 minutes to go to this club.  It was kind of in a sketch area, so some of us weren't feeling it.  When we got this club, the bouncer saw that we were American and immediately told us to turn around and don't even think about coming back.  Wow!  Thanks and welcome to Italy!  So, that kind of shot our night in the foot because by the time we walked back to go to some other bars, we were all so tired no one wanted to go out anymore.  Hopefully Friday night will be more fun!