I have groceries!!

No pictures today, just a bit of an update.

I have groceries in the apartment! I finally don't have to eat out all the time, thank goodness!

Classes started yesterday. The first class of the day is my On-Site Roman Archaeology course. It should be interesting. It will be nice that many things that I want to see in Rome will just automatically be included in tours from that class. The bad thing is, I have to get up WAY early on the days that I plan to run so that I can be back in time to leave an hour before class starts as I have to travel to the site and the buses in Italy are extremely unreliable. And I have to get back to the University within 40 minutes for my Italian 101 class (no lunch for me!) It's about 3 hrs straight of Italian for 4 days a week. Really intensive language learning will hopefully yield positive results.

Today in my Arch class we visited the Capitoline hill and I got my first views of the Roman Forum. Spectacular.

I tried my first run in Rome today. My eventual stopping place was supposed to be the Trevi Fountain so I could take pictures of it without tons of people there. Unfortunately, I took a wrong turn on Viale di Trastevere and instead of crossing the river into the City Center I made it into a part of town with big roads and no sidewalks. Not the best place for a runner!

I am taking the rest of the day easy today as I feel something in the back of my throat and I would rather not get sick while I am here.

It looks like the roomies and I will be possibly taking a trip to Venice next week. I want a gondola ride!!