Wow, I cannot believe Im here. It is all so surreal, like I am just on vacation and heading back to the States in two weeks. My apartment is beautiful and so much bigger than I had ever imagined. Kitchen, dining room, living room (with cable tv until the end of January) and two bedrooms, and huge bathroom with a huge jacuzzi tub but no actual shower...a lousy showerhead that pulls out from the bathtub will be it for the next four months. But other than that, I would hardly call our apartment "roughing" it. Unfortunately, I had to spend the first day in Rome locked inside my apartment, waiting for my landlord to come and give me the right key, since JCU had the wrong key to the apartment building, but I slept all afternoon
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