Orientation ended today and we got a huge stack of textbooks. It took me two trips to carry them up to my room. After that a group of us decided to take the bus to a nearby town (Albano) for exploring and dinner.
We walked down a very busy road that looks like it only has one lane, but actually supports two-way traffic that zips along at 30-50 mph. It had no sidewalk and a basically nonexistent shoulder. After that we waited for about 15 min for the bus.
Once we got into Albano we spent an hour or so wandering around getting a feel for where stuff was and seeing if we could find a restaurant. It was a little bit difficult, but we finally found a place and upon going in we found three UD students already there. Ordering was kind of tricky because the owner didn’t speak any English and no one in our group knows any Italian. We had an Italian phrase book, but it wasn’t much help. Eventually we managed and everything was quite good. We tried to show our appreciation by saying things like “grazie” and something I can’t remember now that means “delicious.” It was a lot of fun and we plan on going back soon, and on really throwing ourselves into our survival Italian class. Tomorrow we are going to be going all over Rome on a scavenger hunt, so hopefully my team wins :)
The books are momentarily forgotten.
ReplyDeleteThe students' Italian is rotten.
Through danger they wend
their hunger to tend.
For the scavenger hunt they are plottin'.