09 18 09

Last weekend seemed so long and leisurely, but here we go rushing right in to busy busy projects.. I'm sure it'll be super fast-paced from now on, and will go even faster now that trips and such are starting..

Meghann and I are headed up to Siena for Sunday and Monday this weekend, I'm excited to go somewhere outside of Rome! This little and hopefully (not-so-stressful) trip will make planning others easier!

After this weekend, next weekend is the Assisi day trip, then the south field trip, to Sorento, Naples, and Pompei, and I'm thinking about trying to go to the Amalfi Coast and Sicily afterwards.. then a couple weekends with the parents (in Venice, then in Rome), then a weekend around in Rome, then BERLIN!

Going to try for Barcelona in early November (after the north field trip), and still need to figure out when to get to Florence and where to go for Thanksgiving break...

As far as classes go, next week is the Primo Angeli packaging workshop, which should be great... these really long days of class are really difficult to manage, nine hours straight in the same seat is a little rough! Too bad it would be expensive to eat lunch out every day, because that would at least be a break...

Last night was an interesting night. Meghann and I went over to Becky's apartment for a while, and some guy kept knocking on the door for a corkscrew (what Italian doesn't have a corkscrew?). He invited us over, he said it was mostly just a bunch of guys watching futbol, but we didn't think too much of it.

Then, the girls who lived in the apartment across the hall came over and offered us cake, and who would refuse that offer? So we went over and had some wine and the cake (really more of a torte or something, but it was so delicious..), and tried grappa and sorbetto. It was interesting to talk to some people other than Iowa State people (and other than the South African guy from the tram), and they spoke english pretty well. The two girls said they were going to try to have a party this weekend, so the plan is to hopefully stop by. Even though they were older, they were really nice, and I enjoyed talking to them...