ostia antica

Today we had our first excursion with SAI to Ostia Antica, which is the mouth of the Tiber river, which is the main river in rome.  Unfortunately the internet here is pretty difficult and is not really allowing me to upload my millions of photos I took of this historic site.  Ostia Antica is a historical city right outside of Roma which is responsible for importing majority of Romes goods by shipping them 20 miles down the Tiber River.  After a two hour tour of that we went to a little farm village and had the most amazing 5 course meal, starting with all kinds of bread, then moving to cheese and honey, then we ate tons of pasta, then moved to chicken and finished off with desert.  I really have no idea exactly what kind of chicken or pasta or desert I was eating but it was by far the best food I've ever had.


Are aparment is showing its true self though, the first day we had heat, hot water, and fast internet.  Now the hot water is gone and are apartment bathroom is leaking, the interent is slow and the heat is gone, I guess the tenet had to tease us a little bit.  But besides that everything is great, Rome is fabulous, my days just consist of getting lost and attempting to speak Italian and failing miserable, which is more fun than I could imagine. 

Like I said I'm trying to upload all my pictures but it is only letting me upload one at a time so bare with me.



I'll talk to you soon

Finally Here

Hey guys,

So after about 24 hours worth of travel I finally reached my new apartment in Rome on Via Traversari, 94.  The apartment is great with wifi, running out water, and a good heating unit (nothing what I expected to have) .  Rome is amazing and I haven't even seen the begining of it, as soon as we arrived me and my roommates went out for pizza and beer of course and ended up getting lost in Rome for about 2 hours which was absolutely amazing.  After that I crashed pretty early from the jet lag and being up for over 30 hours straight. I had no idea how busy I would be so I will try to blog and upload pictures as much as possible but I already have a full day planned with orientation whichs starts in less than an hour, but I will upload and blog again later tonight all about the city and my orientation

Ciao

Delta Delta Delta

So it isn't a study abroad trip without immediate complications.  Yesterday I discovered that my flight had been changed ( without warning of course) and that I would be flying to atlanta today but not departing for rome til the 13th.  Obviously these unexpected changes were ridiculous and needed to be changed.  So we changed flights around last night so that this morning I flew to Minneapolis, then to Newark New Jersey, (which is where I am now) and then a direct flight to Rome in a few hours.  But after the first mix up everything has worked out so and I will be leaving for Rome in just a few short hours. 

I'll update it as soon as I get situatated, arrivederci.

So my post before was wrong I am actually leaving on the 10th which is monday.  Also if you want to check out my campus the address is Via Della Lungara 233.