I am in love with Italy!  I was so sad to leave!  I was there and thinking, this is where I should have studied.  It's so beautiful and warm and the people are so lively.  What a drastic change from German personalities to Italians, my gosh.  Right when we stepped out of the airport, we see taxi drivers yelling at each other with their hands, we had to haggle with them, and everyone was just so vivacious even though we got whistled and up downed.  But it was well welcomed after getting no attention from Germans.  All they do is stare at you (which means I'm interested) and not go up to you, you have to go up to them and play the American card.  Italians whistled and honked at us.  It was great, it reminded me, "oh ya I am an attractive young lady, thank you for noticing."  Gosh, it was a relief.

So we got to our hostile, I was extremely perplexed because it felt like we walked into somebody's home.  People were on the computers, people cooking in the kitchen, people watching a movie.  We got greeted at the door and introduced.  It was a very happy and welcoming atmosphere hence the name "Happy Days."  Then we went to dinner and I tried gnacci for the first time and it was scrumptious so were the 2.5 glasses of wine hehe.

Everyone was lame and wanted to go to bed but Aaron Wu and me wanted to go out in Rome.  So we decided to take this bus and stopped somewhere.  We found a bar, had a drank, and asked where the students hang out so he told us where to go and we took a taxi somwhere.

1st bar

philly students

We walked into this crackin bar, got a drank.  We walked around and all we heard was people speaking English so we asked someone why is everyone speaking English?  Apparently we were in a bar that English speaking study abroad kids go to.  So we started mingling, met some people from Philly.  I went to the bathroom and was talking to this girl when this Australian guy came up to her.  I was like do you know him?  They had just met that night.  But I talked to him for a bit and ended up making out with him which was awesome.  But I didn't want his info because I realized he kinda looked like Crash, that disgusting guy I hooked up with that ruined Keanu and my relationship.

Anywho, we decided to leave and find some new clubs.  This one club was closed but we convinced the bouncers to let us in.  We got in started dancing and looked around.  All we saw were men dancing together and making out lol.  We realized that we were in a gay club but we said fuck it and got dumb and hyphy and shit.  It was empty so we moved on, the next club didn't let us in so we took a taxi home.  It was a successful adventurous night.  I'm definitely partying with Aaron again.

gay bar

club that wouldn't let us in

We got back at 5AM and dumb ass biotches decided it was a great idea to wake up at 7AM to go sight seeing.  Bleh... so I got my still drunk ass up and called everyone crazy for wanting to wake up so early.  

First, we went to the Vatican.  It is so amazing, I cannot believe how ornate it is there.  My neck kinda hurt from staring up for so long.  When we tried to get out, we got lost and went in circles.  It said exit but there was no exit.  We had to ask for directions lol.  Then we went into St. Peters Cathedral which was very majestic and ornate as well.  How did people come up with these ideas?  I took a video for my mama because I know that she would absolutely love Rome and the whole Catholic stuff.  I bought her Vatican rosary beads.

These are pix of the Vatican, couldn't take pictures of the 16th Chapel.  These pictures really don't do it justice, it's so amazing in person.

I ate a gelato in front of the Trevi, it was so beautiful.  The Trevi is this big ornate fountain with sculptures of Greek gods.  The weather was so nice (compared to Germany), it was like 50 degrees but it was sunny and I didn't have to wear 5 layers.  That moment was just so perfect.

Eating our gelatos in front of the Trevi

We saw the ruins as well and I just couldn't stop staring at them.  They just put me in awe.  To imagine that they have been up for 4,000 years is unbelievable.  It's so much different being in its presence compared to reading about them in history class.  It made me want to learn about it rather than sitting in class being forced to learn about it.

Mandy and me in front of the ruins.

Then came the Pub Crawl... bad idea.  Of course me and free alcohol don't go well together.    The first hour included free wine or beer so I chugged my cheap wine.  Got to the first bus that was taking us to the next bar and blacked out.  Sigh... I am sick of blacking out, it's not fun anymore.  So the first bar was pretty fun, I'll tell you about that because it's the only part I can recollect.  They played Britney Spears and Spice Girls songs the whole time, it was amazing fun. We just chilled together and sang and such.  

This was us at the first bar.  I've been online all afternoon posting pictures and videos, now I'm the only left at school so I'm going to bounce.  I'll finish my story tomorrow.  Sorry if I didn''t reply to your comments, I'll reply tomorrow.  Ciao bellas!