ciao!

Ciao Filadelfia! Allo Italia!

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Today I went to Le Scale di Spagna and la Fontana Trevi. 'Twas the first day of orientation. Met a bunch of people.

La Fontana di Trevi

OMFG! on the plane to london. there was this girl from sierra leone. i only know because 10 minutes in she happened to look at me and i spoke to her for 30 seconds. anyw

ayz she was so tense and nervous the whole time. she was soooo scary.

1) she didn't talk to me.

2) she had her coat on the whole time. it was a 7 hour flight

3) she would wake up in her sleep every hour with a jolt or shake or slight epileptic seizure, i wasn't sure.

4) in the first 3 minutes of me sitting there she pulled out a piece of tin foil from her pocket, peeled it back to reveal a yelllow stick. she then proceeded to chew it nervously, like it was poisonous. she sneered at me after i glanced at her.

and then it got worse. in the last hour of the flight, as we're starting to land, she starts throwing up. she nervously tugged her coat closed, laid her head on the seat in front of her and even gave me an attitude when i offered her my water like i should've offered

hours ago. so glad that flight wasn't longer.

the second flight was awesome tho. 3 hours, slept for most of it.

so now in rome, being awesome. my first meal of pheasant in cogn

ac and some other sauce. it was awesome. except i don't know how to cut a pheasant, so i looked like a kindergartner sawing at the bird.

thing i learned: they give you a free alcoholic aperitivo at the end of the meal. going on alcohol content, its like a flavored vodka. i tried the limoncello and the som

ething-made-out-of-almonds.

see. they do like us :)

no, we didn't finish this off. we only had a bottle of wine and a glass of one of the others.

gelato!