point, and some poor innocent old man is going to go for a scratch next to me and I'm going to unleash. We'll see, hopefully this trend will come to a quick halt. Once I was home I had a few minutes before I was supposed to meet with Becca for a shopping trip. I was back out the door, and Becca and I shopped along one of the main shopping streets. She found a very cute cropped cardigan at H&M, and then we found a candy store. It was amazing, I got coca cola gummies, cherry gummies, over sized gumdrops (yum) an off brand m&m type candy, toffee, and mint/licorice taffies. I only got a few of each, and it only cost me three euros :) definitely a good investment. On our way out of the candy shop we noticed some break dancers in the street, they were very entertaining. We went into a high end hello kitty store, it was pretty awesome. A very very good day. Becca and I meandered home, taking a detour to find the gelato place that ISA took us to on the second night, it was huge, and well known. Once home Becca went to work attempting to restore her computer which crashed the second week we were here. I cooked us mac and cheese for supper, and it was quite delicious. I balanced my 'checkbook' (I don't actually have a checkbook, I really just mean my spending log) I also got to talk to my sister today :) it was wonderful to get to catch up, I'm pretty jealous of the fact that she gets to go home to mom's spaghetti tomorrow. I've done four loads of laundry tonight, taking advantage of the fact that it's only Becca and I in the apartment. Tomorrow we are going to campo di fiore, an open food market. We were hoping to go to a soccer game, as we thought one of the roma teams was playing Scotland. Their were Scottish men all over Rome today, and all of them were wearing kilts. It was awesome. I saw one man wearing a business suit on his top half, and a kilt on his bottom, fantastic. After searching the internet for tickets to a Roma Scotland soccer game, we discovered it was a rugby tournament, and not soccer after all, much cooler. It would be really cool to go to a rugby game (match?) and sit on the Scottish side, but the tickets online were 100 pounds, which would be even more euros, and I'm not sure if scalpers would have any better deals. We might just settle with seeing the fans around the city. Becca's computer failed to restore, and her night has been significantly less happy than mine, she's been left computer less in Rome, with no way to see her parents, or friends. I don't have skype on my computer, and it won't download, so I can't even share with her. We might get some sparkling wine tomorrow to help ease the loss.
Friday, February 26
Break dancing, Candy, Hello Kitty, Could this day get any better?
The answer is yes, because all of these amazing things happened to me in Roma :) I'm am incredibly lucky. It is truly a blessing to be here, and I hope this isn't something that I will take for granted in the months to come. I started out my day by waking up to talk to Stu. He's been a very busy bee with conferences, so we haven't talked much this week, we made up for it this morning. Afterwards I went back to sleep until ten thirty. I was sleepy because Becca II and I had marvelous pillow talk the night before for over an hour, consequently we did not go to sleep until much later than we had intended. Once I permanently woke up for the day I took my time getting ready, and around noon headed out the door for the cheap market my anthropology course visited in the immigrant neighborhood. It takes awhile to get to, but it's definitely worth it. I bought an entire pineapple, a kilogram of rice (yellow) 100 grams of cashews, and three large carrots for just over four euro. awesome. What's even more awesome is that while I shop everyone tells me I'm beautiful, it's quite a wonderful experience. The foreign men in Italy are much better behaved than the Italians, they know the way to a girls heart: tell her she's beautiful, not hump her on a bus. Which reminds me, on the bus ride home another old man tried to get on me. He was much more subtle, and very easy to walk away from. Still frustrating, I feel like my frustration is going to build until the breaking 
point, and some poor innocent old man is going to go for a scratch next to me and I'm going to unleash. We'll see, hopefully this trend will come to a quick halt. Once I was home I had a few minutes before I was supposed to meet with Becca for a shopping trip. I was back out the door, and Becca and I shopped along one of the main shopping streets. She found a very cute cropped cardigan at H&M, and then we found a candy store. It was amazing, I got coca cola gummies, cherry gummies, over sized gumdrops (yum) an off brand m&m type candy, toffee, and mint/licorice taffies. I only got a few of each, and it only cost me three euros :) definitely a good investment. On our way out of the candy shop we noticed some break dancers in the street, they were very entertaining. We went into a high end hello kitty store, it was pretty awesome. A very very good day. Becca and I meandered home, taking a detour to find the gelato place that ISA took us to on the second night, it was huge, and well known. Once home Becca went to work attempting to restore her computer which crashed the second week we were here. I cooked us mac and cheese for supper, and it was quite delicious. I balanced my 'checkbook' (I don't actually have a checkbook, I really just mean my spending log) I also got to talk to my sister today :) it was wonderful to get to catch up, I'm pretty jealous of the fact that she gets to go home to mom's spaghetti tomorrow. I've done four loads of laundry tonight, taking advantage of the fact that it's only Becca and I in the apartment. Tomorrow we are going to campo di fiore, an open food market. We were hoping to go to a soccer game, as we thought one of the roma teams was playing Scotland. Their were Scottish men all over Rome today, and all of them were wearing kilts. It was awesome. I saw one man wearing a business suit on his top half, and a kilt on his bottom, fantastic. After searching the internet for tickets to a Roma Scotland soccer game, we discovered it was a rugby tournament, and not soccer after all, much cooler. It would be really cool to go to a rugby game (match?) and sit on the Scottish side, but the tickets online were 100 pounds, which would be even more euros, and I'm not sure if scalpers would have any better deals. We might just settle with seeing the fans around the city. Becca's computer failed to restore, and her night has been significantly less happy than mine, she's been left computer less in Rome, with no way to see her parents, or friends. I don't have skype on my computer, and it won't download, so I can't even share with her. We might get some sparkling wine tomorrow to help ease the loss.
point, and some poor innocent old man is going to go for a scratch next to me and I'm going to unleash. We'll see, hopefully this trend will come to a quick halt. Once I was home I had a few minutes before I was supposed to meet with Becca for a shopping trip. I was back out the door, and Becca and I shopped along one of the main shopping streets. She found a very cute cropped cardigan at H&M, and then we found a candy store. It was amazing, I got coca cola gummies, cherry gummies, over sized gumdrops (yum) an off brand m&m type candy, toffee, and mint/licorice taffies. I only got a few of each, and it only cost me three euros :) definitely a good investment. On our way out of the candy shop we noticed some break dancers in the street, they were very entertaining. We went into a high end hello kitty store, it was pretty awesome. A very very good day. Becca and I meandered home, taking a detour to find the gelato place that ISA took us to on the second night, it was huge, and well known. Once home Becca went to work attempting to restore her computer which crashed the second week we were here. I cooked us mac and cheese for supper, and it was quite delicious. I balanced my 'checkbook' (I don't actually have a checkbook, I really just mean my spending log) I also got to talk to my sister today :) it was wonderful to get to catch up, I'm pretty jealous of the fact that she gets to go home to mom's spaghetti tomorrow. I've done four loads of laundry tonight, taking advantage of the fact that it's only Becca and I in the apartment. Tomorrow we are going to campo di fiore, an open food market. We were hoping to go to a soccer game, as we thought one of the roma teams was playing Scotland. Their were Scottish men all over Rome today, and all of them were wearing kilts. It was awesome. I saw one man wearing a business suit on his top half, and a kilt on his bottom, fantastic. After searching the internet for tickets to a Roma Scotland soccer game, we discovered it was a rugby tournament, and not soccer after all, much cooler. It would be really cool to go to a rugby game (match?) and sit on the Scottish side, but the tickets online were 100 pounds, which would be even more euros, and I'm not sure if scalpers would have any better deals. We might just settle with seeing the fans around the city. Becca's computer failed to restore, and her night has been significantly less happy than mine, she's been left computer less in Rome, with no way to see her parents, or friends. I don't have skype on my computer, and it won't download, so I can't even share with her. We might get some sparkling wine tomorrow to help ease the loss.
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