Finally I feel connected to the world...

After a very exhausting trip I am finally in Italy. Who knew planes had to be de-iced? And that it could take over an hour if your de-icer is an idiot. Needless to say I was late leaving Chicago, missed my connecting flight in Heathrow, but British Airways was kind enough to have the next flight already booked for me by the time we landed. We waited quite awhile at the airport for all the other students to get in. Then an hour to stressa (I think).

The hotel we stayed in was beautiful, all though I couldn't fully appreciate it because I was ridiculously jetlagged. No sleep on the plane tends to do that to you. From the windows you could see snow topped mountains AND palm trees....an interesting combination. I opted out of the boat trip the next day, knowing that it would be too cold to be really enjoyable, and instead ventured out with Caroline, my roommate, and had my first Italian pizza and found the Bancomat (ATM).

The rest of the days at the hotel were filled with stupid orientation stuff. We finally got to our apartments yesterday and I was so excited to finally be able to contact everyone...when we discovered our internet didn't work. Oh well. (It's working now.) My roommates are great. There are 6 total, one italian who is kind of our RA but is younger than all of us, Sofia. The others are Claire from NYC, Samantha who goes to school in Boston, Marissa who goes to school in Minnesota and then Caroline my direct roommate from DePauw.

We adventured out yesterday to get food and sheets and such and had quite a successful trip. We then all made dinner together and watched Bend it Like Beckham and did our nails. A very girly night.

Today we toured MIlan in the rain, along with the Universita Cattolica. We took the metro for the first time and didn't even get lost. Walking up from the Duomo stop we expected, or at least I did, to walk down the street and see it, but no, you walk up the metro steps and there it is. It's huge.

I met my voice teacher today who seems very good. I"m tired of writing now. The girls and I skipped the evening activity and are off to go get a pizza and watch a movie....much easier than trekking across town for not so great food and people we only kind of like...I"m sure we'll get better eventually.