So before I even get started with how my night ended up, I'll talk about how it was great to Skype my family & friends this afternoon! I hope everyone enjoyed the few pictures I posted on Facebook.
We finally got our wifi to work but that was such a tease because now it isn't working again. The girls think that they maybe turn it off when the store closes but for many of us, it's the perfect time to Skype & talk with friends. Hopefully we can get something figured out so we are able to have it all day long.
So my night, at school a few people had mentioned they wanted to go to an alpertivo, which is where you buy a drink then you get endless food. Of course all of us wanted to do that. Well Jessica and Hannah came to get Allyson and I at are apartment and we went to Lauren's downtown (which is apparently where Steph & Mia lived) it's very cute but modern. When you're inside, feels like I'm in a dorm room from New York or SF. But anyways, We didn't leave for an hour because Lauren was getting ready and the boys were.
Once everyone was set to go, we headed out to the Shore. Lauren lives with an Italian girl who gave us this recommendation. Well they thought it was a lot closer than it was. We ended up walking for 25 min. Luckily Jessica is tall and spotted the place on the other side of some shrubs. We headed over (grant it there is 16 of us) everyone always pushes me to the front to talk in Italian. So I asked if they could accommodate all of us because it looked like a small place. Little did we know, there was a big upstairs. It was so cool! (felt like the NY bars)
It was 9 euro for a drink and food. The food wasn't the great which sucked because I was hungry and was looking forward to a good meal. It was all cold and looked the same. I tried some meatballs and wannabe French fries. I just put some other things on my plate. I ate what I liked. When we left, we all agreed on not going back there.
Here comes the fun part, so my roommate Allyson left to go home about 40min before us. The metro we got off on to get to Lauren's was 25 min away from us and at this point the metro was going to close at 11:40pm. So we wanted to find the quickest way. We asked a group of Italians sitting outside and they said to take the bus. We walked to bus and realized that our special # bus wasn't listed. Plus no cars were around, no people so we figured nothing was open anymore. We headed up the main street hoping to run into a metro entrance or another bus stop with our #. Instead we found a map that luckily showed us where we were. For the people from Chico, the map said we were at the Safeway on Nord and our home was at TJ Maxx. Yeah...a pretty far walk!! Of course we started to freak out.
As we were looking at the map, a bus drove by. We ran to it waving our arms in the air (like Americans) and we got it to stop!!! Jessica asked it if it stopped Porta Nuovo which was where a metro station was. Luckily it did and a little old lady was also getting off that stop and told us she would show us. She pointed us in the right direction but as we were walking, this creepy guy was calling to us "Bella Bella Bella" and started to follow us. At this point, we're running!
We finally got to the damn metro station at 11:26 (closes at 11:40) we bought our tickets and RAN down to the train. We made it on time and got home safely. But seriously I am never going out on a school night like this again. I was scared, nervous, frightened all at once. Not something my body needs right now when it's sick.
I'm so glad to be home and laying in bed writing this blog. You have no idea!!
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