Junior Year has Begun

Yesterday I started my first day of class. I had two classes both in the later afternoon. My first was economics of development. My teacher was an Italian stallion named Burshi Francesco and he had a really thick accent. Long hair, tan, the whole bit. My second class was Philosophy 101 and my teacher is a lady named Brunella Antomarni. She also has a really thick Italian accent. Language is clearly their second language. She loves me tho because she asked the class what is the problem with language. I raised my hand and answered that it limits our knowledge and provides boundaries. She went crazy and called me brilliant (morale booster). Most of the students in my classes are also study abroad students. I feel like I am in high school again as I have classes of no more than 15 opposed to 500 and the teacher actually gives the syllabus and reads word for word opposed to just posting it on their website. Also none of the teachers like to give dates. They will just announce when the midterm, final, and paper when they feel like its the right time. I just got out of my early morning Tuesday class which is Micro Economics and once again a major language barrier. I think he copied and pasted his syllabus from another teacher because he did not even know how to go over it. The classrooms all have decorated tyle on the floor and white board. Also they dont turn on the light they just have big windows and use outside light to save electricity. After class I met up with my friend Stephanie and walked across the river to a small pizza parlor. I got this weird fried ball thingie filled with rice and mozzarella cheese.

 I went to the market for the first time. The market is about a 15 minute walk from my house so I had to be carful what I bought because I would have to carry it home myself. The market was filled with produce and lots of fresh organic meat. I bought a little bit of fruit, bre and mozzarella cheese, bread, cereal (frosted flakes that had twice as much sugar as in the states), milk, crackers, and some weird Italian chewy bars. I did not recognize let alone any of the brands so I just went off pictures. When I go to the checkout the guy was not very happy with me because apparently you are supposed to weigh each fruit in its own bag yourself and then print out a ticket that says how much it is. So he took me over to the produce and taught me how to do. I finally got home and ate a mozzarella cheese and tomato salad for dinner. The mozzarella cheese is the best I have ever had. It comes as a big circular ball and soaked in a couple cups of this salt water I think it is. From afar it kinda looks like you bought a goldfish haha. Also last night Tara and Marni and I had planned a trip to Venice. The flights were really cheap and booked a hostel right downtown. We booked to Venice through this website called easyjet.com. We will be leaving early Saturday morning and returning Monday midmorning. We will be going October 23 for two nights. After class today I am going over to my friend Stephanie and Erins apartment and we are going to do research a Thanksgiving break to Ireland. It is crazy how cheap it is to get from one country to another only 10 euro from rome to dublin and then hostels are 15 euro a night. Except we are a little confused on the conversion from euro to pounds and also our us money but i guess we will figure it out. Ciao for now! ps. you may be wondering if I have picked up much Italian because of my use of Italian my answer is NO its hard!