First Day of Classes = Awful.

Classes started today. I was quite unimpressed with the institute’s organizational skills. My schedule said I was in room 1 for my Italian course. The full schedule on the back of mine said the class was in room 6. I asked one of the employees there and he asked someone else and they said it was in the photo lab. So I wait there for 15 minutes and no one enters. So I go in search of them again only to find out that they had stepped out for coffee. So I waited another 10 minutes for the right person to come back. So 30 minutes late to class she points me to the right room (room 5). However halfway through the professor reading the syllabus she asked my name and when I told her she said “Oh you are supposed to be in the other class we switched you so we could each have even numbers.” During the class break the other professor came and found me and told me where his class was located. I get in there and realize that he had actually been teaching during this time while the first class I was in had just read the syllabus. Therefore I am already behind. Also it didn’t even out the class room numbers! I made it an odd number in the second class. So lord knows where I am going to be tomorrow. On the bright side I think I like the second professor better. He is comical and he has a way of keeping the class engaged. After a break and lunch (yogurt, strawberries and a peach) I went to the GWU class. We just got a brief overview of the renaissance and the layout of the course. We leave for Rome on Thursday so that is pretty exciting. Kathy (one of the 2 instructors) informed us that something on the Trevi fountain is a fake. I am going to have to keep my eye out for that. For dinner, Tara cooked chicken in a tomato sauce with pasta. We all sat around and eventually broke out into a hysterical laughing fit about face mountains and the way that Caitlin laughs. This seems to happen often at the dinner table. Kathy and Earl are our neighbors and they said they heard the giggle fit. I don’t know how they put up with 4 crazy girls living next to them but more power to them. Whitney, Caitlin and I met up with Cedric, Matthew and their roommate Joe to go see the sunset up on the top of the hill. However there were too many trees in the way. But we sang musical tunes and took pictures and just enjoyed the scenery. I think I am going to bed at 11 which is the earliest that I have been to sleep since the first night. Bonna Sera!