Ali's Euro Blog: Science Museum and my apt

So we started our first week of classes. Oh right, we here to learn too i guess. We have Western Civ every day, Then European History and Art History every other day. Sometimes in addition to class we have site visits. In Western CIv we are learning about Galilieo so we went to a science museum and learned about astronomy and saw things he actually used. After class i was worn out from the weekend, jet lag and wandering around the night before and finding yet another Irish pub. I have come to realize that if you are home sick and want to meet some Americans, go find the nearest Irish pub. They are full of every ethnicity, but i've only met one Irishmen at an Irish pub, interesting.

Yesterday I went shopping with some of the girls. January is sale month in Italy and every store has things half price or more. I am overwhelmed. There are so many shops and they are so concentrated. When you walk in the look small but they are always 2 or more stories high. Apartments are the same way, so people bring their dogs everywhere to get exercise. even in the high rise shops. Most of them are local leather stores with boots and purses and tons of scarf stores but there are also alot of high end popular retail stores. We walked by Valentino and decided to look around. It was so quiet, no one else was shopping and there were men in suits following us just steps behind watching like hawks making sure we didn't do something wrong. It was like walking into fashion heaven. The dresses and shoes and bags were amazing and the prices blew me away. I looked at a scarf...780 euro. the dollar is pretty bad here so thats over 1000 dollars. i didn't even look to see how much a dress was.

We have to go to the store almost every day to get food for dinner because our fridge is small and we have no microwave so we have to actually cook with fresh food. we have made some yummy meals like pesto pasta with artichokes and pasta with tomato sauce, red wine and zucchini. i can't wait for our gourmet cooking class so i can make italian dessert and anti pasta.

ok i stayed in tonight to read and do homework so i better get to it (thats for you mom. yes i do go to class every day and yes i do my homework and NO im not spending tons of money :) haha )

its supposed to rain the next 2 days. walking everywhere on cobble stone, in the rain with crazy vespas and cars everywhere should be interesting, ill let you know how that goes.