Marco- "es sessio, Americans you flirt, stereotipo grasso"
Marco- "we like to cook fast food slow and enjoy it... (Colin) that doesn't make sense"
Colin- "How do you carry around so many coins, we have like 5 in America"
Marco- "cars drive on vias piccolo but not on sidewalks *car drives by* (Mason) I thought you said this is a sidewalk (Marco) Si"
Orientation was good today, we managed to talk to our professor and determine there to be about 3 tests overall with (as far as we can tell) minimal homework. The Italian riviera tour it turns out will cost and extra 130 euros approximately. We purchased a cell phone from 'Wind' but after talking to Marco Muiccio (our language partner) he stated vodaphone is the only cell phone for city use and pretty much everyone has it so we may purchase another SIM card. The purchase of that cell phone was ridiculously difficult because the cashier did not speak Spanish or English at all. Eventually after buying it and a lot of gesturing we went to another 'Wind' store to have a Romanian English speaking girl explain the phone and our minutes to us. Peter and Brandon, our roommates, feel a bit more distant which is bad because we want to be close if we are to be living in the same apartment for an extended amount of time, this is mainly because for the past couple days we have made separate plans including Colin and I today going to a caffe on our own because we were very hungry and did not want to wake them up. Colin had no problems explaining the difference in coffee between America and Italy (America= an actual beverage, Italy= shot of coffee) to Marco. Marco, as previously stated, is our language partner and is quickly becoming a personal friend to both of us as we spent the entire afternoon walking and butchering two languages together while walking, he is a very cool guy or "figo" as he stated. He offered us to come to his small town house to meet his parents and he assured us a good meal and fun time. In return we stated the same and said our apartment is yours and to meet our parents through Skype and a true American meal (a definite challenge Colin and I will have to overcome with only authentic Italian Ingredients surrounding us.) Class begins tomorrow at 12:30 and continues until 3:30. I am personally more nervous over excited as it is a senior level economics class and I am only a sophomore having never taken Econ. before.
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