Making Memories :)

Today I had my first on site class, meaning that because we are in Rome the teachers like to involve us as directly in the learning as they can, and we got to take multiple field trips. I woke up at seven this morning, and left my apartment by eight in order to get to my class downtown at nine fifteen, it should only take a half an hour, but I gave myself lots of wiggle room. It was raining today, shocking, I know. I knew the bus I needed to take, but after fifteen minutes of waiting for it in the rain (I can't bring myself to shell out the three euro to buy one) I saw another bus that I said Stazione di Termini (my destination) on it. As soon as we turned off the street I knew I was in trouble, we weren't going the direction we needed to be, but at a stop I read the bus route sign and the final destination was Stazione. I rode the bus to the end of the route, wrong Stazione. I was on the opposite side of town that I needed to be. Luckily there was a directional sign with my neighborhood written on it, so I walked that way. I ended up near vatican city, and began to search bus stop signs for familiar landmarks. I, by the grace of god, stumbled upon a express bus to where I needed to be, and was there within fifteen minutes. I was only a few minutes behind when we were supposed to meet, so I hurried toward the building I thought we were meeting outside of, I walked down the wrong side of it, and had to turn back and walk most of the way around the block (that I just covered) to get to the entrance. Once inside I paid for my ticket, and ran into two other girls from the class who were late arrivals. I followed them to the rest of the group, and the professor was only just taking attendance :) I didn't miss a thing. Class was interesting as always and during my break I observed my second neighborhood for Tribes of Rome, it was pretty rainy, and I ended up very very wet, but the neighborhood was really beautiful, full of unique little shops and churches, streets, and ruins. I also had my Italian class today, once I was home I took a shower, as I was cold from the rain still. I then helped my roommated prepare for our barbeque by cooking massive amounts of chicken on the stove top, she cut and I cooked. I'm not even sure I've ever cooked chicken before, but after tonight I'm a pro :) No barbeque sauce could be found for the chicken, and brown sugar is not sold here, so we couldn't make it. Luckily one of the girls downstairs is an amazing cook, and she whipped up a sauce with random ingrediants and it was delicious, she also made an apple pie from scratch for our dinner part, it was heavenly. The party was a lot of fun, the food was delicious, in addition to the sandwiches we had pan seared green beans with onions and garlic, potato chips, the pie, chocolate cake, and wine. After the dinner party, I went to charge my laptop, and ended up electrocuting myself. Kinda crazy, it only stung my hand, and just scared me, but I'm just fine, and my roommate and I had a good laugh over it. I then talked to Becca (number 1) and it was great to see her, as it always is. I'm looking forward to our senior year together. I have another on site class tomorrow at nine, and I will be waking up at seven again, and I need to write a four page paper for class tomorow, the nine a.m. one. I'm not anticipating it taking too long, and I'm tired enough right now that I'm planning on completing it when I wake up. I hope everyone has a wonderful tuesday evening, I certainly did.