Had a relatively peaceful ride until I got seperated from Sam when he got off at the train station and i got blocked by 30 high school girls who rushed the train and made it completely impossible to follow him. In short I was left with all of both of our bags and had to carry them ALL (seven bags total) from the train platform to the front of the train station - an ordeal that involved going down and then back up about fifty stairs. In the meantime, it turned out that Sam had actually gotten off at the wrong station, and he ended up walking for about an hour until he finally got to Macerata and found the hostel. Not knowing what to do, I waited for Sam at the station for a while but finally decided to get a taxi to the hostel and in the end we both got there at about the same time and had a pretty good laugh about the whole thing.
Asilo Ricci:
The weekend went something like this:
-Toured Macerata with Filiberto, our ex-track star director, who seems to know every nook and cranny of the town as well as everyone in it.
-Spent a good amount of time with my roomates (sam, matt, and mark) and the rest of our group, trying every gilato and pizza/pannini place we can find and comparing them (since apparently that is all Italians eat).
- Learned enough Italian to not TOTALLY disappoint all the people who are still very much convinced that im Italian, though after hello, thank you, and you're welcome i'm still pretty lost.
- Drank some delicious local wine and went out dancing at one of the local pubs.
- Moved into my apartment (which has an inordinant amount of desks in it but other than that is actually really nice and spacious) on the fourth floor of a building which has that wonderful smell of an old persons home that all European and Israeli apartment buildings seem to have - and the nostalgia doesnt stop there because the kitchen drawers look the ones we had in Bet Cherut and the market down the street looks and smells a lot like its Israeli counterpart too.
- Bought a soccer ball and planned a hike to take advantage of the beautiful weather...and then it started raining - so I watched Italian TV with the roommates instead.
- And finally...started classes again.
So… it’s been a week. Feels like a month. I can get used to this.
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