Blogs from Viterbo, Lazio, Italy, Europe - page 3

Ciao ciao. Life in Italia has been good, things have settled down a bit since the first week. There are no longer so many people crowding the streets and obsessing over an extremely gaudy statue. I don't mean any disrespect when i saw these things. Anyway things are settling down, summer is coming to an end and i am falling into a routine. My routine is very different from what it used to be in America. I no longer get up at 5:30am, so to crew, go to school sometimes for 12 hours straight, then come home tired and blame my poor roommates for everything. Now, on a good day, i get up at 7am go for a run, eat something then go to class at 9am. However if dinner goes late, which it often does ... read more

Thursday 11.2.210 day 120 Thermal springs We went to the Thermal springs today the water was so hot and felt so good it smells a bit due to the sulphur but it was very relaxing. Unfortunately there were some ignorant Italian men there who decide that they would divert all the water from our spring to threes so that we could not have any and they got all the water. As this was on public and everyone had an equal right to the water and we where there before them it seem very rude to us that they tough the deserved all the water and us none. It really made me drop my option of Italians. ... read more

Monday 8.2.210 day 117 The village of Sorianoa where we are staying is a communist town and there is a siren that sounds 3 times a day that can be heard though the whole village it is at 8 am to start work 12 midday for lunch and 5 pm to stop work. Today we went to Montefiascone a pretty town perched on the edge of a defunct volcanic crater it has splendid views of lake Bolsena. It has the world’s second largest dome (st Peters in the Vatican is the largest). It also has fantastic wine that we have had a few bottles of over the last few days. We then followed the crater along Lago di Bolsena Europe’s largest volcanic lake we stopped on the side of the lake at the town of Bolsena ... read more

Ciao tutti! I must admit that the business of Italian life and school has gotten the better of me, I've not blogged in what seems like forever, and it definitely has been too long! However, this week I've two tasks I've set for myself before two friends and I set off for Madrid this weekend: Study for my Italian Language 1 Final for Thursday, and hopefully get some work done on my journals and blogging... We shall see how that goes! A big apology on my part for slacking off, and I hope you all are doing very well back home in the states! Arrivederci! alix Recap of the end of September!! • First cappuccino during geography class. I’m officially in Love. We bought our own coffee for the apartment, so we have been saving quite ... read more

August 29, 2009 When I got to Rome this morning, our plane made it over thirty minutes early….6:55 am, Italian time, and already 24 degrees Celsius (that’s like 78 fahrenheit!) I got an expensive taxi (65 euro = 100 US dollars) from Roma Fiumicini (sp??) and the cabbie dropped me off at the wrong hotel… I guess that’s bound to happen though when there are 4 hotels in a row, all named after the street they’re on… So it was no big deal and I got to the Hotel Flavia around 8 am, and they were nice enough to let me check in four hours early. I was worried about how I would get in touch with Natalie, a girl from South Carolina, that I was supposed to be meeting at the hotel and traveling with. ... read more