Hi. Just wanted to write a quick blog. Not too much new going on here. We've all seem to fallen into our routines now, and while everyday is still so amazing, there isn't as much really cool stuff to report on. Here's just a small recap... Today was the third transportation strike since I've been here. Usually the strike lasts from 8:30am until 12:30pm and doesn't do too much to inconvenience everyone. Well, today was a different story. All of ITALY decided to have a transportation strike today. So, from 8:30am until 5pm there were no buses, metros, trains (regional or [View Full Entry]

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Well, Stockholm was really cool. I'm so glad we went there. It was definitely an amazing city. It is so much different than I thought it would be. It really is a very modern city, especially by European standards. It was very clean, and the people were so friendly. Thankfully everyone spoke English. The biggest difference to get adjusted to was the light. It was light well past 11:30pm and when we woke up at 2:30am (yes, we woke up at 2:30am to get ready for the airport) it was light again. It usually only gets dark for 3 hours at [View Full Entry]

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Hi! I´m in Stockholm! So far we all really love this city. To me, it´s not typical European. It´s very swank and modern and very clean. We´re going to take a tour of the city today. It´s a bus tour and a boat tour. So, it should be fun. I´ll let you know how everything goes. We´re also planning on trying some Swedish dishes since we ate at TGI Friday´s yesterday, haha. At least it wasn´t Italian food. I´ll write more later. We´re going to have some breakfast now. Ciao! [View Full Entry]

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Well, I don't have too much to report since the last blog, but I did want to let you know that burger night was a huge success. The guys brought over the burgers (the butcher even put the meat into patties for us), steaks, and lamb skewers. And I made the potato salad. Everyone liked it, so I was happy. I was just so excited to eat something that wasn't pasta or salami. So, here's how it went...I made the potato salad and chopped the veggies. Davide cooked all the meat. Of course, we are the ones that usually do the [View Full Entry]

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The temperature reached over 95 on Friday, and way more the past two days. And honestly, I think it's 99% humidity. This country does not believe in fans, and the air conditioning that I was so excited about only works in the hallway, and doesn't go below 68 degrees. It sucks. So, we've been sitting around doing pretty much nothing because it's too hot to move. We went to Ostia again last night in hopes that the weather at the beach would be cooler. It wasn't. So, we were all hot and sweaty all night. I slept for 2 hours last [View Full Entry]

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We had a really fun weekend. Davide has been so nice to all of us, and we partly have him to thank for us enjoying our time here so much. Friday night he came to pick us (Heather and I) up and we tried to find a place to go out so we didn't have to go to Coyote again. Well, apparently most of the clubs close here in the summer because it's too hot. So, instead everyone heads to the beach in Ostia where there is a whole strip of clubs and bars outside. So, we ended up going to [View Full Entry]

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It's been a fairly uneventful week so far. Well, sort of anyway. Last weekend Lauren and I were both feeling kind of sick, so we stayed in and went to sleep early on Friday. Of course this was after I watched the entire season of A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila 2 on MTV.com :) On Saturday we met up with Davide and two of his friends for dinner. Davide got held up at work, so it was too late to go to dinner in the hills of Rome. Instead, we had dinner at this tiny restaurant in Trastevere. It [View Full Entry]

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I’m a little sad today. My brothers and friends all left me to go back home. It’s weird, but seeing everyone made me miss home. I thought it would help, but it only made it worse I think. This is really the first time I’ve felt homesick at all. We all traveled quite a bit and walked so much over the past week. I think we’re all exhausted. We went to Assisi, Florence, Bologna and Venice before returning to Rome. I hope everyone enjoyed themselves. I know I enjoyed seeing everything. I moved into my new apartment after coming back to [View Full Entry]

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Well, we are learning very quickly what it's like to be Italian. I have to say that we have met some of the most wonderful people here. The Romans, at times, can be very rough and abrasive. Oddly, they're often in a hurry and don't think twice to just walk right into you if you happen to be in the spot they intend to go. It usually only happens while getting on or off a bus or metro, but I've found that they don't believe in walking on the right side of the sidewalk. They actually zig-zag quite a bit. But [View Full Entry]

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Well, the apartment situation on Thursday night didn’t work out exactly like we had hoped. But the people we met (Davide’s friends - Manuela and Fabrizio) were really nice. They took us to see the apartment and it was so nice. Everything was clean, it had everything we would need, and it was decorated nice. Only problem, it had only one real bedroom with a double bed, and a pullout sofa with another double bed. The problem is that we are four people. Even if we wanted to share beds, we didn’t have enough room for our stuff. We were really [View Full Entry]

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