I'd meant to start to blog earlier, but turns out that the internet in the residence is just awful awful awful. I haven't gotten on even once yet despite trying a couple times per day. so hopefully that gets all fixed up and I don't always have to do this from the school computer. So I've been here since about Tuesday which was really Monday. I stumbled all around center city last night to try and orient myself and I have pictures of lots of touristy things although I unfortunately can't put them on til I get internet on my laptop. So here are some of the first mistakes that I made so you don't make them. Do NOT
1. Order a cappuccino in the evening. Apparently this is a faux pas equivalent to ordering a beer at 7am. Too bad I already did it before I knew (at Bar Doria where I'm considering becoming a regular. I mean I've been there 3 times so I practically am)
2. Pay for 31.83 euro worth of groceries with a 50. They get so mad when you don't have the right change. It also didn't hurt that I couldn't understand a single thing that the signora was telling me about it. You need to have loads of change in your pockets at all times.
3. Say ciao the same way you say hi and bye in english. No singsongy ciaaaoooooo. They say it curtly, quickly, so it almost sounds like you're mad. Ciao.
I've also been walking about 100 kilometers every day, or so it feels, and eating only carbs. Bought a 2 euro bottle of wine in a plastic bottle that looks exactly like ginger ale. There are endless wonders here.
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