Sunday 1/15

Sunday:
Today I went to the mall with Hannah & Jessica. It's HUGE!! I was in love with how big it is and how many stores there are. I could have brought an empty suitcase and would have been fine with buying clothes here (figure of speak haha) but it use to be where Fiat would manufacture its cars. Eric said there is a race track on the roof! 

It doesn't look like a mall from the outside at all, more like army barracks. I don't know for sure but it looks like there is 7 floors to shop on. We only made it to the 2nd floor because we tried to go into every store. I was able to buy myself a purple blanket (would you expect any other color) so now my bed feels more like home. Now I just need a new pillow and Dwayne to complete my bed! 

We weren't able to go into the store that is like Whole Foods because it was getting close to 5:30pm and we wanted to head home so we could Skype our family and friends. We planned that the weekends we don't travel, we'll probably go to the mall on Sundays. 

We all went to the local cafe and got Internet and were there for probably two and a half hours. Once we got home, we planned on going out to dinner. This time Allyson came with us. In our USAC book they suggested a ton of places to go and one of them were Pasta e Basta, and she had seen it yesterday. It was great being all together. It's more fun with more people. We all got huge plates of pasta. I took pictures so I'll post those as well. When we were walking to dinner we passed by a gelato place and wanted to go after but we went another way home so we think we passed it but then we walked back trying to find it and couldn't. So we think it closed because it's 10:30pm now and on Sundays things don't stay open late, just like back at home. 

Tomorrow we have our first day of school! Well for the kids in elementary Italian (so not me, since I'm fluent and what not). They apparently are going to go over with us the schedules and meet our teachers. Plus we are filling out paperwork for the police department. I'm not sure if I'm going to bring my laptop to school yet or not. Might just bring my iTouch so I can get wifi. 

I'll write how it goes tomorrow night! Wish me luck at my first day of school. Feel like a 1st grader again! 

Miss you guys so much!! Xoxo

Monday morning:
As I'm sitting in my room, waiting for my roommates to finish getting ready, I look outside and it's snowing! First day of school and it's snowing!! Culture shock here I come. I'm bundled up into 5 layers and my 2 roommates are in tights and a dress or skirt. This is going to take some getting use to.