Travel Day

Wow, what a day (actually two). So it started out Monday morning waking up around 10:00am. Spent the next 3 hours dealing with Office Depot (props to them for doing so much for me, they can fix anything) trying to fix my laptop that just crashed, finally we ran out of time and wiped out the hard drive and I had to reinstall everything since (but its gone well). Then, around 1pm got Chick-Fil-A for one last time before heading up to Philly.

Twitter: "Peace out America, its been real. Now im stuck in seat 25H for 9 hours..."

The flight was pretty boring, watched 4 movies (cool personal touch screens killed my sleeping plan) and before I knew it, I had watched Mark Zuckerburg become a billionare air, Demi Moore and Jennifer Aniston go through emotionally funny relationships (what's new) and the return of Gordon Gecko; and boom, we landed here in Rome at 9:00am local time (3am for ya'll back home).

After waiting three hours+ at the terminal, my van finally picked me up and zoomed me to my apartment by 1(by zoomed I mean drove with complete disregard for everything else in existence). I'm lucky to have gotten here.

Rest of the day I spent exploring around with my new roommate mostly getting lost while trying to find lunch, then getting lost trying to find a place that sold toilet paper and soap (ended up in a gyno office, orthodontist office and some even weird places that gave us even weirder looks when I attempted to describe toilet paper). Finally we found food and got things we needed.

I spent some time after that getting my computer up to speed until we left to meet our fellow students at the school for a tour of the neighborhood at 6. We never got there. Despite leaving at 5:30 for a 20 minute walk, it took us until 6:45 to find the school (blame my poor Italian skills, poorly drawn maps and the general publics unawareness that AUR exists somewhere in this city). Anyways, after that failure we decided to find a pizzeria, get some good food and now I'm back here, not having slept in about 36 hours, blogging!

By the way, this apartment is sweeeet! Check out my patio view and our huge living room! More pics on Fb.

Let's hope tomorrows adventures go better.