Sunday, September 7, 2008

DAY 7~still no phone, but i walked for 4 hrs across the entire country

yesterday we were lazy...again...haha, then me jess and suan decided to go back to the area we explored a little the day before and walked around for a few hours, it was beautiful, there were small cobblestone streets and vines hanging from all the beautiful buildings and little squares with fountains that people just hang out at and drink beer and just talk there, its kinda interesting...

*some little baby turtles we saw at a store...i miss emily!! haha*

we bought some cool jewelry from africa from some lady and it was pretty cool, most of it made from wood...we were starving by 8 so we stopped and ate at a little local place outside, it was awesome, we finally had a meal not consisting of pizza which was great lol...




*some cool buildings during our adventure, and a fountain where people hang out and drink*



the girls talked about maybe doing the pub crawl that night that starts at the spanish steps and they take you around to a few bars for 4 hrs and you get drinks and specials at each bar for around 20 euro...i decided i kinda wanted to take it easy and perhaps stay in being that ive been drinking like everyday, and we all know that i dont just go into a bar with self control and only have 1 beer haha



when we got back though i clearly gave in to peer pressure when i had planned on finally taking it easy, not spending millions at the bar, and giving my liver a rest...we decided to go back yet again to campo di fiore instead of the bar crawl...we went to a few bars there and my mission was to find hash...this wasnt going too well so by the end of the night i saw 3 people sitting on the street who i thought looked sketchy enough to help me with this mission lol...this was unsuccessful b/c instead of them being sketchy italian rastafarians they were actually roman students haha and i was completely wrong....i got home around 4 yet again and of course got up this morning at around 130...i decided i needed a phone asap so i set on my way alone thru the city in search of one

i figured id head to the bus/train terminal that i was pretty familiar with on how to get there and i knew they had a lot of stores in there b/c theres like a mall connected to it...but being that i get distracted so easily i got on and off the bus/tram like 4 times b/c i would see a cool market, or a store that sells fans (ps i finally got one even tho i had to hold it thru my whole 4 hr adventure!!!)...finally i made it to the terminal and walked all over the mall part of it for about an hr after passing weird stores such as a store that ONLY sells different bottles of water, and apparently fancy waters b/c i saw diff bottles locked up in special cases haha, i finally found a man in a phone store who actually spoke decent english, i pretty much picked out a phone, figured out how to pay for it with good deals on calling ppl here and to the US and then as i was paying the guy asked for my passport which i OBVIOUSLY didnt not bring b/c it never even crossed my mind that i would need it....fuck me

i headed back to the bus which would take me to my apt but then of course got off yet again b/c i couldnt buy a bus pass b/c the machine didnt work which is usually fine b/c you dont need one unless these like bus police come to check ur ticket which is very rare but clearly they decided to come on 2 stops after i got on, so i bounced and jumped off that shit real quick b/c you can get a 100$ euro fine for not having one if they check...

so jumping off this bus left me near the colosseum where i knew how to get on another bus but of course got distracted again lol and wandered to these cool buildings i saw



...finally i was near death from walking for about 4 hrs so i got on the bus and headed home to also grab food b/c it was around 4 and i stil lhadnt eaten and was getting so hungover from last night...i grabbed some lasanga for $3 euro and it was amazing...now i am finally sitting with my fan about 1 ft from my face and will not move from it until december lol...

classes start tomorrow, this should be fun....or not b/c there is no AC in the classrooms so im sure that will add to how unenjoyable class already is....awesomeeeee

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