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2/10/08
Soccer game against Italians
Some Americans in usac have formed a sort of soccer team to play against other Italian students on Thursday nights sometimes. Soccer is like the sport for Italians.. except that the girls rarely play, which I found weird. Today we went and watched a game while eating some pastries we bought on the way (doing clearly the opposite of all the players in this game.. sitting around eating sugary things). While soccer may be in the Italians blood, I think our usac team still won a match, so that’s exciting!

3/10/08
Tonight we tried to cook dinner in our “kitchen”. Our kitchen has 4 hot plates, 2 of which work and even those 2 don’t work well. Caitlin put in a load of laundry and the water hadn’t started boiling until her second load was almost done (45 minutes)! So even our simplest dishes of pasta with tomato sauce and some type of pre-cooked chicken patties took fooorrrrreeeevvvveeerrr. After it was all cooked it was nice to eat.. but it took so long that we never really want to do it again, so its back to eating out ever night for us. Too bad we don’t have a microwave/oven!

4/10/08
Today we went to Roma! Specifically for the purpose of going to the Euroma 2 mall, probably because we heard they have an h&m and we were looking for some store where we knew the clothes would fit and be reasonably priced, since Italians are tiny the clothes here tend to be tiny and the cheapest stores are these stores run by Chinese people with random imported stuff from china, where I have found a bunch of good stuff, but that run really small because Asian women are particularly tiny! So we took the train to the metro to the bus stop to the mall. The mall was huge! It had three floors and lots of stores, mostly ones I hadn’t heard of, except they did have a huge Coop on the bottom floor that was so much better than ours and cheaper! If Viterbo was closer to the airport then maybe all the import fees added to our favorite American foods wouldn’t be so high! Anyways we started at the top floor, with the food court, to get some lunch before shopping. They had Chinese food, sushi and subway! I was so happy to have a turkey sandwich for the first time in forever. Later, a couple floors down, we had gelato, mint stracciatella! Then we walked around the huge circle mall for like 5 hours.. buying a couple things each. I got a sweater and a shirt. It was really crowded, maybe because it was raining. After we took the metro back into Rome, walked around a bit to the Trevi fountain, and found a restaurant to eat in before heading back to the train station and going back to Viterbo.