On Sunday, we just hung out and got some sleep before classes on Monday. We walked down the street to another pizza place. Yes, our goal is to try all of the pizza places lining our neighborhood and the nearby piazza. Apparently we get a discount at this one with our CEA cards.
I was assigned one of the earlier times to get my Permit of Stay processed, so me, Anna, and Danielle left at 8:20, handed in our paperwork, and were done until our next classes. Our New Testament of the Eternal City, usually at 9 am on Mondays and Wednesdays, was cancelled. My next class was at 12:30 with Danielle and Sara, our Operations Management class. The professor is British and super nice, and he explained that we would be doing a lot of presentations in this class. He had a lot of interesting things to say about the business world. He said that when he was trying to get a job, they were more concerned with experience. However, in today's world, while experience is still important, intelligence and innovation are much more valuable in our ever-changing society. After he discussed this with us, he started giving us tips on our study abroad experience in Italy.
He told us that the Italian culture was very welcoming to all kinds of people, and that they liked it when foreigners tried to take part in their culture. For that reason, we should try to speak Italian without embarrassment, even if it was weak. Most people would try to understand us and appreciate our effort. In comparison, in France, he told us that usually, we shouldn't try to speak French unless we spoke it perfectly, as they often see it as an insult and can be rude about it.
We had a little break in between our next class, and then me and Katherine and Anna headed back to the villa for our first Italian class. Our professor, Mario, is a loud and funny, though sometimes a little intimidating. Katherine kept trying to get away with saying Spanish words, and I literally just had no idea what was going on when he would start to ramble. I did understand the pronunciation of the words, and that definitely helped. All of the letter rules and sounds are pretty different, but we're all getting used to them.
Yesterday, on Tuesday, I had another theology class, the Church and other Major World Religions. It was wayyyy too long. We had a 20 minute break in between, but even with a cappuccino stop I was dying by the time we got out of there. After Italian, we came home and took naps before dinner. We decided to go to Scholars Lounge, an Irish Pub, but of course, since we still have no direction in this city, we got lost for like an hour after a metro and bus ride. Finally, we arrived, and it was a really cool scene. There's all of these book shelfs and big red leather chairs upstairs where you eat, and then on the main floor there's the bar and a bunch of tables where there is karaoke on Tuesday nights. We ordered nachos that were awesome, and then everyone got burgers and such. The burgers did not hit the spot like expected, although the fries were definitely good. The burgers had some weird spice in them and we were way too thin. Oh well.
After some entertaining Italian guys stopped by our table and discussed their travels in America, etc, we walked downstairs to the bar area. Me and Anna ended up leaving a little later and taking the bus home, but the rest of the girls stayed for a while and said the following karaoke performances were really entertaining (especially the one they did).
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