Arrival Day

-Ciao bellas!

Starting this a day late but from what I can remember...

Plane ride: When did Minnesota's heavy snow finally decide to fall? The day of my departure of course. But that's what I wanted...to leave everyone with a snowy winter wonderland as I adventure to the 'fall feel' of Roma, Italia.....but before I got there- I got to experience a terribul-iffic (ups and downs) of 3 flights/2connection plane rides.

MSP's plane was two seater; 3 rows full :49 minutes to Chicago. The way over, many things were running through my mind, I was happy I didn't cry saying goodbye to mi mamma e papà. Thinking of them made me sad that I wasn't going to be able to talk to them as easily via phone/texting/etc. Due to the fact that we were flying through WI, I thought about my fellow La Crosse friends and what they were doing..hopefully sending kisses in the sky when they saw me (I tried looking down to see yalll but I couldn't see the ground. ANYWAYS blah blah right?
Plane excitements in summary:
We were able to lay out across our seats because the plane wasn't full.
-No movies played...rough
-Fooled the flight attendant with my spanish-speaking skills; (muy agua por favor...gracias;))
-I was teaching Libby the Italian language and the hand gestures at '2am' (it was still 8pm for us) and got shushed at by the flight attendant.
-Libby spilt MY coffee on my pants and white t-shirt at 'breakfast.' Not cool.
Madrid's airport was pretty cool.
Being in a spanish speaking area (Spain) but going on an Italian flight- couldn't figure out what language to speak.
I was spoken to too many times by people in spanish/italian- I think it was because I looked exhausted (dark features-pale from insomnia with dark circles around the eye [standard italian woman])
-at one point a woman with her boyfriend came up to me asking me something, speaking way too fast my facial reaction gave away my 'oh shit i have no idea what you just said' expression and the man said, "Can't you tell- look at her she is American." ...I felt insulted and especially more after they continued to talk about me! ey iy iyy...
-Flight to Rome: caldo (hot) flight, i was sooo tired but couldn't sleep. Especially because I was intrigued by the hot kid from NY returning to AUR..mmm hope I see him around at school.
-Arrived to the airport, was 'country struck' because so many people didn't only try to have a simple conversation with me- but spoke to me so frickkin fast in some other language..non parlo englese!
-AUR was waiting for us (THANK THE POPE!!!) with signs held by beautiful volunteers from AUR, who helped carry our luggage and rode with us to our new home...which we had no clue where and what we were living in until we arrived.
-Drivers are crazy. Lets break it down:
walkers<bikers<Aprilias (motorcycle/mopeds)<cars<bus<tramline
quickly learned to: watch out. beware. walk across the crosswalk. watch out. run.

Libby and I were able to pick our room first (the one with the door to the biggest patio/balcony that AUR offers to students).
Unpacked. Organized. Went out.
First 'meal' here: pizzeria from an Indian bar (bar means cafè) not the best...

End the first night: talking to my mama via facebook as Libby zonked out.

CIAO!

PHRASE OF THE DAY: para inglese..... non parlo bene l'italiano (Do you speak english?...i don't speak good italian)