Thursday is the last day of the week that I have class and on thursday I only have one class that takes place at 9:30am and lasts till 12:20pm. I arrive with 10 minutes to spare, having rushed my morning and slept very little to arrive on time. There are no class rooms posted for this particular class, because it is one in which students are lead around the city of Rome to learn about its ancient monuments. The first days rooms are posted on the wall when we first enter the school building. At first glance I see that we are in room 1. Then, looking more carefully, I see that the time for just today has been changed to 8 pm. Did I mention that it is my only class of the day? So now, I am sitting in the student lounge, its 9:30, and I have only about 30 minutes of homework with me to do tops. Well, that is the only homework I have, so I really can't complain that much, but I am here and could have slept in! Grrrrr.
Other than the class time change for today, nothing much has changed here. I finally know how to walk in the area around my school and not get lost. I dont know quite how to run to the open track yet to do some intervals, but I have a general idea of where it is from looking on the map and attempting to run there once before. Today Im going to go on my run in that direction again.
Thus far I have not met too many kids from otuside the American U community. It is hard to get other people to hang out with you, as they all hide in their home school groups. There are a few execptions, such as Kate (a friend of Joe/Jeesh's) from his home town, and a few guys and gals from Tulane, who also seemed to show up to this university together. The JCU local students think they are the worlds greatest gift to man kind, and pretend to not speak any english. I don't particularly want to be the person who goes and attempts to make them all warm and fuzzy, but I have managed to get a few of them to open up and share some of their knowledge of Rome. When they learn you arn't going to ask them the best places to get shit faced, they realize you are a real person and talk to you.
Did I mention it rains here? Did I mention it rains alot, randomly, so hard that you are soaked by the time you find your umbrella and open it? I realized this the first time it rained the other day and did not realize that everyone who was outside had moved into local shops to avoid that sudden, brief downpour. I have learned better, and now wear knee high boots, a raid coat, and carry an umbrella. Bring it Rome, I am staying dry! Others in my apartment, have not taken those steps to stay out of the rain, and have gone through an amazing number of pants in the last few days. [We have no dryers here, so everything has to hang out to dry. For jeens, in rainy season, this can take up to 38 hours.] Our washing machiens also take an amazing amount of time to run their cycles. It takes and hour and a half for the thing to put water and soap through my clothing and it only holds about half of what one at home would. Many people are not realizing this till they have no clothes left, and have to wait about a day to have dry things to wear.
For now, it is time for homework. Ciao. Mao.
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