Friday night when we arrived and had to deal with the baggage we got to our apartment. Our fourth roommate Martha was already there. Marta is the owner of the buildings sons girlfriend. She's also Polish. We just found out that the awesome room that she took with the great balcony was really supposed to be a living room. Bitch. Niko (the owners son) drove us to dinner the first night to meet up with our group. We went to dinner at Casa e Vino. Our table scarfed down so much food and apparently we drank the most wine out of everybody, which was about 7 bottles. After an amazing dinner we went to Oktoberfest Stube. I didn't realize how loud Americans really are until we all walked in! Claudio bought us some brews, and then Kalyn, Lauren and I found some nice Albanian boys to buy us shots. I ended up stumbling home with my roommates Maura and Mia, and we couldn't figure out our door! We felt so bad because Martha had to wake up at 3 am to get the door open for all of us.
Saturday morning we had to be at breakfast at 9:30 am at a place called Ippopotamo. After breakfast we had a walking tour of the city which would have been amazing if it wasn't freezing and raining outside. One of the boys on the trip lost his luggage too and only had basketball shorts and his winter coat to wear. He was getting a lot of random looks. Claudio took us around to all the the different places in the city and then took us to lunch at Osteria Dogana Vecia. We drank more wine and had another 4+ course meal. It's crazy here because they drink wine all the time with every meal and eating isn't quick. We have spent so much time eating! Meals have been lasting at least 1 1/2 hours or so. After lunch Claudio made a scavenger hunt for us to do. A few of us gave up on that however. When we got back to the apartment mine and Mias luggage had arrived so we went and picked it up. By that time it was dinner so we walked to San Matteo for some amazing pizza. The restaurant is actually in a church which was beautiful. The whole group headed over to Campus (pronounced Campoos) after dinner with Claudio. After drinking wine at dinner I thought it was a great idea to drink a rum and diet with 3/4 rum, do a blowjob shot, have a half liter of beer called Hoegarden, and then have another drink of vodka limon. The boys from the night before who were buying us shots were at the bar too so we hung out with them for a while. Then I started talking to a boy named Luca. He was extremely tall and didn't know much English but was trying to communicate. Him and his friend Leonardo walked my roommates and I part of the way home. On the way home we almost got attacked by a French man who looked like Johnny Depp but was on heroine. Luca and I were trying to discuss if the heroine Johnny Depp was "drunk" or on "drugs" which was hilarious because he couldn't understand the difference and my explanations at this point in the night were awful. After our escape from near death (haha he didn't almost kill us, we just don't understand French so we were scared) we finally made it home (it took us almost an hour to walk home which I don't think it should have), couldn't open the door again and had to wake Martha up. She probably hates us.
This morning we had to be at school at 9:30 for orientation and such. The classes I'm going to be taking are painting, photography, and opera (Yes Jess I am you). After a few hours of orientation, Claudio took us out for the last organized activity of the weekend which was lunch at Il Cenacolo. We had a huge lunch of about 6 courses and of course wine. Claudio drinks so fast too. We stayed at lunch for three hours and then we were left to fend for ourselves. My roommates and I went back to the apartment and then out with Niko. He took us around Verona to the top of this huge hill which is beautiful! I am truly amazed by all the buildings and scenery. We then went for a walk through the city center and met up with one of his friends. We kept walking around and they told us all these random but interesting facts. We then went to a bar that was inside of a church to have some wine, and then to another bar in the city center to have a few more glasses of wine. Niko drove us home after that and now I'm exhausted. I've walked so much and gotten zero sleep on top of having jet lag. And I still have to unpack!!
We start school tomorrow at 9:30 am--Italian!!
okay just a warning... niko is nice at first but gets really creepy. one night i couldnt get into my door and i had to ask him to help and he told me i should not sleep in my apartment, but in his bed. io ho detto no!
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