Saturday and Sunday

Saturday:
I went to Leicester. I got a bit of morning with family then I went off on my own. I got there at about 12.10 and walked to where I was meeting Potter. On the way my old politics lecturer stopped me and I told her all about Italy. She was impressed. Potter took ages but we met up and went to the pub. It was so so cool to be back in the Dry Dock. I had curry lunch, potter had Italian style pasta (i'd sworn off Italian food for these two/three weeks). It was cool to chat
After that we walked to his, stopped of a while to look a Dane axe, viking boos and go to the loo. Then we walked on to Crazy's. On the way we discussed the latest developements in Hrfan and I gave my view on Paddy.
When we got there it was great! People were playing a zombie game. It was cool to watch, and then I got to play it. The controls were weird at first, but I got it eventually. Its a fun game. After that we played Halo 3, which I didn't get. It was more complex and less pointful. It also seemed alot more difficult and I died alot. It was still just great to be with them thou, just a bunch of great mates and relaxing and fun. Exactly what I needed. I spent ages with them, then we went to Nandos. I had a smallish meal and then everyone went home, I got a lift to the station. I was alot later than I thought I would be home, but it was fine.
Sunday:
Was a family day vraiment. Lesuirely getting up and stuff. We went on a long green walk me and mum and Iz, which was cool!! We had really nice meal in the evening. After that me and Izzy went to see Twilight. The film was pretty good, other than the sparkinliness. The dialogue was cut right down, which made the whole film more about the dark side than the love part. It was still cool thou, and Rob Pattinson is still hot! Izzy however had a fan girl moment, and loved it as much as I loved the books when I first read them. I'm glad she enjoyed it, and i'm getting her the books for christmas.

Tuesday-Friday

Basically I didn't do much. It mostly revolved around me wanting to go home. I cleaned up my room, read Gomorrah and generally did nothing.
Friday I woke up earlish and did more tidying. I procrastinated most of the moring. In the afternoon it actually was time to pack. It didn't take that long. I was all paranoid about it being way to heavy though. I worried about it while I made an attempt to tidy the rest of the room and the stuff that was staying there. After that I was still paranoid so I went out to find scales. There were none in the shop so I went to the pharmacy. They said there was one just two shops up. It said my bag was just under 3 kg over. I went back and took a bunch of stuff out. I went back again and weighed it. 1 kg over. I took more clothes out until I was left with almost no clothes at all. Eventually I got it to .1 of a kg over and left it as I literaly could not take anything less.
Then I went on my journey. At the airport i'd forgotten AGAIN to take my nail sciccors out. That annoyed me, along with the fact that during rummaging through my bag my laptop had got smacked to the floor. Thank god it still works. My mood was bad but it got better. Amanda turned up not long after so we amused ourselves chatting about stuff. She told me about a cool club in Bologna called million, I should check it out. Shes not coming back, shes got work experience in France for the rest of the year. The plane was fine, if a little bumpy. Amanda slept and I read my book. When we arrived the weather was massively bumpy and we had a really dodgy landing. You could feel the plane lurching from side to side. It got the pilot applause though. When we got out it was very windy and it smelt all green! Like England does. It was so cool. Seeing Izzy and mum again felt a bit surreal, but it was all good. We went home and to bed, it was quite late

Monday

Monday morning I woke up at half 7 and spent the hour getting dressed and doing last minute revision. I kicked Uber awake when I was about to leave, he said bye and good luck. I went off in a massive stress, in a very bad mood-tired and emotional.
When I got there I pretty quickly bumped into my aussie friends from my class. They didn't know where the exam was either. Eventually Fabio came along and saved us. JD and the girl were already having their exam. We chilled and revised, but I was so so stressed I spent most of the time trying to calm myself down. We waited what seemed like ages, and then 2 of them left at once. The lecturer saw me and asked me to help her as she has some English people visiting on Wednesday and she doesn't know how to say their names. I said that i'd help.
We then stayed in her office and listened to other peoples exams. It didn't sound that bad but I was still too stressed. Then I did my exam. It didn't go too badly. She did alot of talking. I mostly did descriptions of the mosaics in Ravenna and we had a quick chat about one of the crypts that the class had been to here in Bologna.
After that I went home and spent an hour or so with Uber just chilling. Then he had to go to we went to the bus stop. Hannah was there so I was sure he was in capable hands. We said goodbye. The rest of the day I did pretty much nothing. I was so tried from the exam stress. I went online and read books. Nothing strenuous.

The whole of last week and the weekend before that!

So now I have some time to chill I think that i'll get this updated!
Last weekend:
Sunday roast by Hannah at Lydia's

Monday-Thursday:
Monday was a day off cuz of some Italian holiday, hence no lectures.
Tuesday
Wednesday evening I went out to Hobby One, which was cool. There was a new DJ and at one point the music was really good. Adrienne has got herself an Italian boyfriend, which was a bit weird having someone new there, but he seems fine.
Thursday I went shopping for food and tidied my room.

Friday: Massive fiasco at the airport. Pizza, sleep

Saturday: Ravenna, all the diff churches, cafe w pink, churches, no buses

Sunday: revise a bit, Bologna a bit, aperativi in the evening, bar lime
EDIT TOMORROW

Friday

Friday I did almost nothing. I felt bad about having done nothing so in the evening I met up with Stephen. We went to the cinema but they didn't have a film programme so we went back to piazza maggoire and then he went home, I went to Lydia's. We chatted and everyone was cooking in the kitchen. They had finished helping them cook so then we watched a bit of tre metri sopra il cielo, but Christina missed the beginning bit and then they had to go out later so they missed the end part. I then went and had pizza at the really nice place by theirs, on my own which was a bit weird. Went home, chilled, slept.

Thursday

Yesterday I got up late. I had a lesson at 11, which I went to. It turned out that they had no keys for the lockers and I would have to go upstairs. I wasn't going to do that as my lesson was downstairs so he let me go down after a bit of pleading. When I got down there it turned out that no one turned up as there wasn't a lesson. I was very annoyed at this and I went upstairs and lazed about. I texted Stephen and he said that there wasn't a lesson. Urgh
While I was waiting there the phd guy from Leicester (called Martin) came to chat to me. He reminded me that I didn't have my last lecture of the day either. We had a cool chat about archaeology, dissertations and languages. During which I was also texting Stephen about the lesson. Eventually I got hungry and went home.
I went home, got lunch and then a few hours later started to feel really ill. This went on for hours, and I had to cancel the plans I had for the night. I was sad at that. By the time I went to bed I was feeling alot better

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday

Sunday: I think I skipped writing about Sunday as it was so dull. I read a load of the twilight books and talked about doing work when I didn't do it.

Monday: I woke up later than I had wanted to. I didn't have my normal morning lecture. I went to the new class and it did have people there this week! Lydia wasn't there as she was at home. We got taken around the various places in the library to find books and maps. She then told us to get our bags from the lockers so I assumed that was the end of the lesson (even though it was early). I sat down and worked a bit, and then Frederica and her friend arrived. We talked about christmas food, and about the Alice in wonderland book that Frederica had. It was in Italian on one page and English on the other. I read a bit to them in English and they said it was nice. At this point we had to get to the next lesson, and we were ten mins early. I went in to see if the room was free and walked into the last part of the lesson i'd been in before! Mortifying! I got a rabbit in the headlights look and walked out. Frederica laughed at my face, and I explained what had happened. She laughed. We then had our real lesson, which went fine. I went home and chilled that evening

Tuesday: Another weird day later on. Firstly I woke up really early as I was stressing about my CILTA presentation. I decided to skip my first lesson to make sure I was sorted. I met up with my friends that I do the presentation with at 9.30. We went to the factulty and went to the library of economics. We realised that we didn't have much to do, but that I needed to write mine out so we then went to the faculty. They left me to write my work out while they went and brought a panetonne and knives. I'd almost finished when they got back, and we did work stuff for a while until we were both finished. I practised mine to both of them, and they said it was good. We had plenty of time so I got myself lunch as I knew if I didn't then, then I wouldn't be eating for alot longer. It was then time for the lesson. Dimitra went ok, but she was sitting down and made quite a few pronounication mistakes. Also the teacher kept interupting us and giving more info. Then it was my turn and I think it went quite well, despite people chatting during it. Irenas video was really good. I stayed for other peoples but then left early for the next lesson.
Lydia arrived soon after I did and I told her of my embarassment yesterday and about the lesson in general. She told me about her trip home. Lesson started and there were only 4 of us crowded round a map. The teacher had a soft weird voice so I didn't understand much, but Lydia also looked a bit confused. It went on a while and then Lydia asked him about if we were allowed to start the second module. He said this was the end of the course and the exam was v soon. We were like ohhh. In the end we stayed a while, but then when they went back to their seats to begin the main lesson off the map we left. As I was going I asked the guy when we had the etruscan exam. He replied that he'd taken it already, making me look very stupid. Urgh.
Later on that day I also went shopping, picked up a bunch of food forgetting that I had hardly any money. I ended up only buying 1 out of the bunch of stuff I got. The salmon wasn't even that nice! Yeh, two days of everything going wrong

Wednesday: Urgh I didn't even know I had missed this day. I got tickets to nightwish with Lucie, thats about all thats interesting.

Saturday

Another short blog. I should combine them into two again.
Yesterday... Not much to tell. I got up late, eventually met Lucie at twenty to three. The ticket shop was closed. Boo. Everything else, weirdly, was also closed. We went to one of the few open cafes and had a drink. It was still closed when we went back so then we went home. I stayed and chilled for a while. I read some of twilight, its this book thats massively popular. Its very teen but pretty good. I've got a bit addicted and am a bit in love with the hero, but i'm a complete sucker for fictional perfect men.
Later I went out to 2be. At the start I got a drink but some arsehole accidentally knocked it out of my hand! It went all over the floor and the glass shattered. I gave him evil looks, and Adri and Lucie spoke to him for me. In the end, after many evil looks, he paid for my drink. Only fair as it had cost me €5! Stupid man. Anyway after that the night went well. We danced on the podium, it was great! I suddenly crashed at half 2 and had to go home but all in all it wasn't a bad night
Update soon xx

Friday

Right.. Friday I got up late and went to CILTA. While I was there, there were two people's presentations. One was on ice cream, the other on Emilia Romagana in general. They were both OK, the ice cream one was better. After that me and Irena went to the uni restaurant to eat, and we bumped into two of the Italians she'd interviewed on the way back. Then I went home.
Not alot else happened yesterday. I was exhasuted after the lesson.
Update tomorrowxx

Wednesday and Thursday

Right, lets get on with this:
Wednesday wasn't the most interesting day. I got up late at Lydia's and then got myself home. I didn't have any lectures. I spent the day being tired, until the evening and my normal outting to Hobby One. It was really fun. When we arrived the layout had changed a bit (poker night was sharing with us, in one section) but it was fun. I'd invited Stephen and he found us. So it was me, Lucie, Adrienne and Stephen dancing most of the night. Was great!! Stephen knew what song was coming up next, which was weird. It was a good night all in all. Plus I didn't massively overheat like last time.

Thursday was a good day. I was tired in the morning, and didn't take in much of the lecture. She was pretty much reading off the handouts she'd given us so I don't think it matters that much. Italian uni is not like English uni, Italians arn't expected to attend lectures. They do exams based on the books people say they've read if you want them too. Its a bit silly, you can kind of see why a British degree is worth more even if it is thousands and thousands of pounds more expensive. Aaaaanyway.. so that was fine. Went back home for a while, chatted online. Stephen (American friend) said that his uni group were having a thanksgiving meal in a restaurant. He'd been told to bring friends, and it was free. I said that I should go to my class instead. It turned out when I went to the lecture that noone turned up so I met up with him and we went to my first ever thanksgiving!! it was a really nice restaurant. We had pasta starter, with turkey main course and it was really really tasty! Everyone was so sweet and very funny. We had awesome conversations! Including one about the differences between British and American English. They have some insane stories about Brown. I really wanna visit, but it'll be so expensive. I'll see how viable it is! Its so cool having friends from all over the world! I really enjoyed my thanksigiving, even if I did feel a bit of a fraud.
Update tomorrow xx

Monday and Tuesday

Hey, had a good two days, so i've been busy

Monday: I got up late but met Lydia for lunch as we'd planned before our lecture. We had a quick catch up, some food then went to the place. We turned up 5 minutes late and noone was there. We waited a while and noone turned up. Eventually this other girl turned up, but it turns out there was no lecture. We're going back next week. After that Lydia spoke about a place where she knows to get suitcases that are hand luggage size, so we went off to go thereb while we were on the way we bumped into Luca. He's a guy that Lydia knows (I had only met him before in a club). He had just won €20 in the lottery so he took us to a cafe on him. Lydia had really thick (more like moose) hot chocolate, I had herbal tea (great becuase it was SO SO cold) and they had cakes. We stayed for ages and chatted untl i had to go to my lecture. Lecture was fine.

Tuesday: Got up late, went to my CILTA lesson. Mimma (the teacher) had lost her voice so we watched "Il Postino" instead. It was sweet, but it would take too long to explain the story here. It was fairly easy to understand with italian subtitles. Then I had lunch with Christina and Lydia in the uni restaurant, which was nice. Its nice to talk english, I hadn't kept in touch with them enough I think. Then we all went to the suitcase stand and I brought myself a suitcase. Then I went home and then went off to do shopping and stuff. At this point I was exhausted so I rested. At one point I was talking to one of my friends online. He said that his hair clippers had broken and hence he had half his hair cut. He'd worked on it with sciccors and could I help! I recommended him a shop, and he went out. In the end he actually came to very near me, so I breifly met up with him. The hunt for hair clippers was in vain :(. Later on I met Lydia, Christina, Eloisa, Julio (spanish) and Julio (italian) for Pizza. The restaurant was nice, and it didn't cost too much! Then we went back to Lydia's house. We played Uno, then we played a wink murder kind of game. It didn't work that well, as there were so many nationalities! Even though the game was explained in English and in Italian, it was still confusing for people. It didn't really work. I decided to stay over, as it was so cold, and far from mine.
Update soon xx

Sunday

Yesterday the most interesting thing I did was watch a film on youtube. I also did another load of washing, so at least I have lots of clean clothes.

This was while I should have been working furiously on my cilta presentation on christmas cooking in Italy. damn

Friday and Saturday

Friday was rushed. I woke up at about 25 past ten, and I had CILTA at 11.30! It takes about 40 mins to get there! So I rushed, got dressed and stuff. I managed to get there on time! Everyone else was late, most due to the fact that they'd been up late last night like me!! ha ha. It was an OK lesson, but seemingly with less people than there were before. I didn't feel that we learnt much, but it was ok. We played a pair up question and answers game.
After the lesson I went with the girls i'm doing the presentation with to the uni restaurant. We ate and discussed stuff. It probably wasn't the best idea while eating, but we agreed on topics, and decided to have a draft by Tuesday. Its something I have to work on today. Then they got coffee, and I hung around a bit. They then went off on their bikes home (bus strike again) and I walked back. Not much else happened that day.

Saturday was similarly dull. I got a new housemate, Turkish guy, in the place of the Japanese guy. He speaks more English than Italian. I also did a bunch of washing (which was good, although I have two more loads!!) and I went shopping. I got a drainer for pasta, more food, various boring things. I text Hannah to see if she wanted to watch DVDs but she didn't reply. Its ok though.
Update tomorrow

Thursday

Hello!
I'm going to write a bit about Thursday. I woke up late from the night before, and stayed at home until about 4. Then I went out. I went to the shop and got new eyeliner, a mirror for make up, face clenser stuff and new slippers. The old ones had started to stink, party due to being old party due to me putting my feet in them wet from the shower. I hope these new ones don't go the same way. They were however only 1.50 euros so I don't mind. Then I went to H and M, taking photos of graffiti along the way. I went all over H and M, tried a bunch of stuff on but in the end didn't like anything other than the boots. Got the boots and came home.
Came home, ate and stayed at home and got bored haha. Didn't get a reply from Lydia about where we were going that night. Eventually we met up, it was Hannah, Christina and Lydia. They all had eyeliner moustaches! The party they had been at was a gender swap one apparantly. We caught up and walked to Corto Maltese. I got a telling off from Lydia about my pill, shes right though I really do need to sort it out.
We got there and about half my CILTA class (who are Spainish, so it kinda fits) were there!! Julio was playing the music and it was all really good! We got drinks, I chatted to Hannah, and the night started. There were loads of sleazy guys, which annoyed me but everyone else took it in their stride. Hannah and Christina danced with some guys but me and Lydia took a hands off approach. It was all in all a good night. I left early at 2 and went to bed.
Update soon x

Tuesday and Wednesday

Tuesday:
was composed of normal lectures, and my Italian lesson. Both went fine, but the Etruscan lecture was taken for the second time by this really young female lecturer who speaks really quick. In the Italian lesson we started working on our presentations for the end of the course. I also got a reply about about my exams, from the e-mail I sent to the department erasmus person here

Wednesday: Lectures as normal. In the evening I went to Hobby one. It was ok. Normal food, slightly better than normal music and photos. Lucie and Adrienne were obsessing over this barman, but I didn't think he was that great looking. I was wearing a long sleeved top and got way too over heated, which kinda spoilt the end of the night. It wasn't too bad though.
Update done x

Sunday and Monday

These two are sharing the same blog as Sunday I did pretty much nothing. I did a bit of Italian work, but mostly chilled out. I had got up late anyway.

Monday as well, I didn't do that much. I had a lecture in the morning, then I had lunch. I then went to H and M during the day and looked at the boots I have decided to buy. Had my next two lectures. Did a bunch of nessercay but boring organisation type stuff.
Update tomorrow x

Friday and Saturday

Friday was a strike day at uni, so there was no CILTA. I got up late. Nothing much happened

Saturday was pretty much the same. I went out in the evening with Lucie, Adrienne and this Dutch girl. It was empty when we arrived, we got drinks and took pictures. Later on we danced. I left early, as it was closing at 4 and I think 2 is late enough. It was ok.

I made another blog recently. You can probably find it on my profile page. It hasn't got anything on it yet, but it might soon
Update tomorrow x

Tuesday: So I went to my first lecture, it was ok. Before the lecture we chatted about stuff, about parts of America and all that. Went home. After that I missed the next lecture because I had a doctors appointment, which it turned out to be closed! I was most pissed off. There wasn't much point going to the rest of it, as the lecture was halfway through anyway.
At this point I went to get my hair cut. First I was too scared to go in, but in the end I did go in. I spoke to this guy, and we discussed my hair. After that I had to wait like an hour before anything else happened. They only have 2 people cutting hair which makes queues long. Evenutally it got done. I paid and left, but spent the whole evening stressing about it and hating it.
Last lecture I went to but it was cancelled, I think the whole module has stopped. Had a night in.

Wednesday: Wednesday was a bit dull, but I was more happy with my hair. I missed my first lecture in order to get an appointment. Its so annoying how opening times are always the same as my lectures!! Last one was the same as last time, so it was cancelled too. At least I had an appointment. I also met up with Lydia and Christina and we chatted and discussed my hair. In the evening I went to Hobby One as normal. However today it rained non stop, so I had to take a coat and umbrella! First time i'd had to pay for the cloakroom. We actually had a really cool night, there was a whole bunch of good music towards the end (are you gunna be my girl, tubthumping, whats my age again, welcome to paradise). When we left we realised that Lucie's umbrella had been left there! She decided to go and catch her bus but was annoyed. She in the event missed her bus and decided to go back to Hobby One and look for her umbrella. In the end she was accompanied by one of the guys who had been with us, and I went home.

Thursday: Was a bit of a nightmare really! Again it rained all day! Right pain. Again my doctor's appointment was at the same time as my lecture, so I went there instead. It was a bit stressful. Firstly she asked for the pill box, as she couldn't find the name on her system. I had to go home and see if I had it, which I didn't. I went back, she phoned the pharmacy with no sucess, and then her husband. He apparantly is a doctor for people with Turners, which is random, and he suggested another pill. I got it and thanked her. I'm still unsure though, its differnt, and i seached it online. It was discontinued (I don't know why) in the Uk about a year ago. Mum is e-mailing my consultant, hopefully all will be well.
In the evening I went to the cinema with the Belgians, Lucie and Benjamin. We saw the new bond movie Quantum of Solace! It seemed really good to me, incredible action sequences. I didn't understand the plot, the Italian was too complex for me. I enjoyed it all the same. After that they went out to a club, but I went home.

Monday!

Right, so this blogging thing is actually going ok, for the last few days anyway. So...
Monday morning I didn't go to my first lecture as the only time the doctors was open was then! I arrived, got buzzed in and went up. It was easy enough, I spoke to this woman and then wrote my name in the appointments book. After that I went to ricordi and got the DVD of trainspotting. At this point I went home as it was lunchtime and I was starving.
After lunch I didn't do much. I went to H and M, got myself a dress, trousers and a blue t-shirt. They're all really nice. This used up the time when I would have had the lecture that had been cancelled. I went to my last lecture, only to find that that had been cancelled too! I went home, ate and went to bed.

Sunday

So I missed out a bunch of stuff on Saturday. My landlady Valeria came round (as she had said she would. For a cooking lesson). It turned out not to be a practical lesson, but just giving us recipies. We went through how to make: Ragu, stuffed tomatoes, tuna sauce, bread pizza, bean sauce and this thing called frigoni (no idea how its meant to turn out like). They all look tasty enough! There were a few funny moments, like when she was trying to say beans, but said bones. I got very confused and there was much merryment when I explained!

Sunday, I had a good lie in after my night out. Had a decent size lunch and stuff. After that I chilled for a bit and texted Lydia to see if she wanted to do something later. She text back to watch a DVD at 5. In the event I left early and went around town. I found trainspotting in the shop! I've been looking for it everywhere and apparantly they're not making the DVD of it anymore. I'm going to buy it today. I also found the sequal to "tre metri sopra il cielo", which i'm also going to buy. After that I went to H and M, lots of nice clothes there too! In a way i'm happy that I didn't have money on me, as it made me think about what I wanted.
After that I met up with Lydia, she got an ice cream then we walked to hers. We sat down and watched hairspray. She really liked it. After that we went to get pizza at this pizza place. Lydia's order was messed up, but we still both had pizza. I enjoyed mine alot. After we'd finished them Christina turned up, and we chatted about Slovenia, which is where she'd been all weekend. After that they chatted, I read magazines, then we all watched x factor on youtube! I didn't find it that interesting, but oh well. After all that it was 1am, so I went home.
Update tomorrow x

Saturday

I like Saturdays, they're relaxing. Gives me a chance to chill out after a week of constant Italian. It also helps when I need to catch up on sleep, or on work that I havn't done!
With this in mind yesterday I woke up late and didn't do much during the day. For some reason I always feel grateful for a relaxing day but get bored at about 4pm, which is when everythings closing. Its annoying, but me and Lucie seem to have started a tradition of DVDs on a saturday night. We watched Harry Potter 4, it was quite good!
After that we went out to see one of Lucie's Italian friends, called Marco. In the event, we found the club, found him but he mostly ignored us. The club was packed, and after two hours they started playing the same songs again. At the beginning it was actually not bad, they had new music in there along with what seems to be the Italian club music staples. That didn't last though, oh well. I really don't know why I bother going clubbing here, its never a really fun night. That said, if you're bored and feel like socialising then it becomes suddenly an atractive prospect!
Mas and Victor (my housemates, Japanese and Brazillian respectively) had another degusatizioni last night. I think that's their tradition.
I've been in touch a bit with Olivia, thats been cool. Also yesterday I finished putting all the photos that I had on facebook! I suddendly have tons of comments lol.
Update tomorrow xx

Friday

So...
Yesterday I woke up fairly refreshed after 2 nights with little sleep. The morning was mostly spent trying to finish the CILTA homework that I should have done! haha
I left 3/4 of an hour to get there, and it turned out that I did need most of that to get there in time.
The lesson went OK. We learnt about the time, and listened to this Italian singer who I actually really liked the song of. I'm actually feeling like i'm getting somewhere, which is good. I'm enjoying feeling more confident. After that I went to the uni cafe to eat. Its so convenient and cheap!
After that I went home. The rest of the day nothing much happened. I put up a load of photos on facebook! like 4/5 albums worth. I hadn't done it in ages. The new download thing is so so much easier.
Not much else to add. Update tomorrow xx

Sunday to Thursday!

OMG I'm really not good enough at this.
Sunday is fairly easy as I did pretty much nothing all day. I tidied and stuff. That was the day I saw the car accident. It was ok, just a dented car, but the noise was loud and a very Italian style arguement ensued. I also got a really good ice cream after that.

Monday: Got excited about the election, normal lectures. Nothing much ever happens on Monday, too many lectures.

Tuesday: We went to St Giovanni in Monte for my first lecture. It was hard to hear her, but the cross was interesting enough. After that I had CILTA. Lesson went fine, we listened to a song, did more grammar. Differnet people turned up, as everything got a bit shook up due to people having lecture clashes. It rained and I was annoyed. My trousers got really soaked and there were puddles everywhere. I was going to stay up all night for the election but didn't in the end. Went to be at half 11pm.

Wednesday: Woke up (on purpose) at 4am ish! Went straight online (very groggy). Saw that Obama was doing really well and was pleased. Quite alot of states had already been called at that point. McCain then suddenly got loads more, as a bunch of red states all came in at the same time. Obama got a few more. Then I realised that he was on 207 votes, he only needs 270 and California (worth 55) hadn't even been counted. I was so so excited! It was so so close! Then the news started coming though! It was all over! He'd won! I was so so happy. I stayed up a bit longer, just to see the main states coming in (noone cares about Alaska, and it was already over 270). Went back to bed until 10am. So worth it though, watching history being made.

When I woke up for the real day, I looked at the final offical votes! Obama had got double the number of electoral votes! amazing! Then I watched the two speeches, McCains first. I was surprised how humble and accepting it was. He was so gracious in defeat, and it was good to see him control the republican boos. Obama's speech was truely amazing. I love hearing him talk at the worst of times, but that speech really proved how worthy he is of the office hes just been given. It was cool that he realised and spoke to the thousands of people all over the world who were listening to him too. It was just great. Also, without wanting to trivialse how much I admire him, hes also really hot hehe. On my way to lectures later in the day all the newspapers were still from before the result.
In the evening I went out clubbing to Hobby One. It was the UK night, but with no UK food really (fairly normal, theres sposed to be food for each country but mosty its just the cheap stuff they normally have), no UK "spectacle" and hardly any UK music. They had coldplay and the prodigy on right at the start but no. It was not very English, but it was an OK night out. Francesco and this band of Erasmus played songs. Mostly fairly badly, but it was fun to sing along. I spoke to Francesco about it later on but I got all confused and I think he thought I was taking the piss out of him. Oh dear, all in the past now. Lydia and Christina had hair hair cuts and dyes! Lydia's is darker and shorter and nice, Christina now has a fringe! I didn't recognise her!
At the end of the night this drunk Irish guy started talking about my boobs and my bra size. He then later denied being drunk AND that he started the convo about my bra, just lol. Then Francesco came up the stairs and tryed to get us all to dance more. We had to slip away.

Thursday: Today, i've just had normal lectures (went shopping at lunchtime, just normal food). Brought Le Monde for french style Obama news, and the free Italian newspaper with a big picture on the front. I wanted the guardian to see if it had anything different from the website, but the only good english newspaper they had was the Indie, and that was from before the results (had about Obamas aunt being illegal thing).
This evening I went to cafe Zamboni with Lucie, Adrienne, Julia, Christina and Lydia. We had drinks and food and stuff. At one point Lucie started crying and went away, but it got sorted out. She was just stressed and stuff. I had tagliatelli al ragu, but the pasta had horrid dry bits in. Really not good enough, although it was eatable. It was cheapish, in its favour. Stayed there until half 9, then came back here and wrote this all out!! Its so long.
Hope you enjoyed it even so xx

Wednesday until Saturday

Humm havn't updated enough really.
Wednesday:
Not much to say about Wednesday. Dull day. It annoys me how little I remember. I need to update more.

Thursday:
Went out to Kinky with Lucie. It wasn't actually that good, we sat on the seats for a while before we got up. The music was awful as normal and there was a really weird girl at one point.

Friday:
I only had my CILTA lesson on Friday. Woke up fairly late but left the house early to see if I could find the doctor place. I got there, found it and got directed to another place. I went there and by the time I found it it was really too late to sort it out so I thought that I would go back. Lesson was basically grammar, and this song. It seems to go half the lesson on vocab and stuff and the other half on grammar. After the lesson I went to the Uni cafe and got food! 2 o'clock is long enough and I was starving. On the way up Via Zamboni I got the lesson book we're working through. Then I went back to the doctor place and explained what I wanted. I showed her my EHIC card and she showed me a list of doctors. I found two on Via San Felice. Later on... It was halloween and I was sposed to be going out, but I was in a bad mood and didn't feel like it. I texted Lucie and stayed at home.

Saturday:
Didn't do much. Mostly clearing and tidying my room. It looks so much better, for some reason the dust and stuff had multipled dramatically since I last did it. I also got sorted of all the newpapers on the floor and stuff like that. At 8 I went to get Lucie. On the way there there were two English guys chatting next to me so I joined in their conversation. I think they were a little startled at first! One guy was doing his erasmus in Siena, and the other had done his last year in Bologna and had decided to come back and visit. It was only a short convo, but they were sweet. I met Lucie at the Neptune fountain, and we walked back. She was a bit nervous about not knowing the way back! I assured her that she would be ok. We watched Harry Potter 3, It was quite good. By the end it was half 10, she left and I went to bed soonish after.

Tuesday

Yesterday... I went to my first lecture at 9am. It went ok, I understood alot of it. We were talking about churches, their forms and about decoration and symbolism. We discussed the greek letters and symbols for christ as well as a generic medieval church layout.
That finished and then I had half an hour to get to my first CILTA lesson. It was raining, and I got all wet. I ended up being 10 mins late for the lesson due to leaving the lesson late and secondly to not knowing where the hell I was sposed to go. In the end I found it. There was a really small room full of people. 99% of them were spanish. This I wasn't pleased with as I find spanish people really hard to understand. They speak such a near language to Italian that they don't bother to work on their accent and are lazy with words that are almost the same in both languages. This makes them really hard to understand. I understand them when they talk English though. So she spent a while talking about part of Italy and bits that talk more than one language. Apparntaly one part near the alps also speaks French, another part speaks German too.
First half of the main part of the lesson was being into pairs. We were then given a picture and had to make up a bit of dialogue for the picture. I was with this Spainish guy who was perfectly fine. We didn't really know what to say, but we managed to sort something out. Everyone said theirs at the front of the class to each other. We got corrected on pronouncation and words a few times, which no one else did so I didn't feel we did very well. The second half was grammar. Very basic, just plural forms of the indefinite article and plural of masulin and feminine. This lesson was from half past 11 until 2! Right over lunchtime and I was starving. This didn't help concentration, but I did the best I could. I'm going to go over the grammar again myself before the next one on Friday.
After that lesson I ate lunch there as I didn't want to go out into the rain. Eventually it died down a bit so I went home. It was so wet and my trousers were soaked. I decided to stay home for the rest of the day as I was tired cold and wouldn't be able to concentrate on my lecture later. Too much Italian in one day. Rest of the day was fairly uneventful. Later while I was cooling the Japanese guy Mas was about! Him and Victor had some rose wine. I declined but let them try my ameretto, which I think they both liked.

The Weekend, and Monday

So Saturday nothing much happened. I was still getting over this damn cold. I mostly watched the OC and chilled for the day. Talked to mum on skype and stuff. In general it just wasn't a very interesting day.
Sunday however was interesting. I woke up at half past 6, which was silly. I woke up too early and I needed to wash my hair and shower anyway. I left the house at half past 7! I had given myself ages as it took so long to get there when I went to get mum but it turned out that I got there really early. Feltrinelli (bookstore, but like WH Smith) was open so I went in and got Italian Cosmo and "umoini degli figligo" otherwise known as children of men. Then I went to the train station and met up with everyone. It was packed! Lydia gave me my ticket (you have to get singles) and we got on the train. Lucie was waited for Julia, they got on the train but couldn't find me. It was pretty packed, set the tone for the whole day really.
We arrived, got together and then went up this platform thing outside the station to look at the city. We took pictures and stuff. Then we went down and over the bridge and the main canal. There were so so many people. People selling fake gucci bags and weird balloon sand things made into shapes. The streets were gorgeous, I took loads of pictures. The people kinda spoilt it though. At one point my plastic bag broke and everything fell on the floor. I had to take up half the alleyway sorting it out!! It did feel properly like a medieval city though. The canals every other street were all gorgeous, and the gondoldas also looked lovely. We followed the same route as the main tri organised by the uni (Lucie and Julia went with that trip) but we went at our own pace and gave the queues for St Marcs a miss. Still looked great from the outside while we ate our lunch. After that we carried on wandering about and taking pictures. We sat at a cafe at one point, and had an ice cream next to the grand canal at another. It was a good day, but spoilt by people really. We left at about half past 5. The journey back was very chilled, mostly everyone was tired and listening to their ipods. I went home and made food and slept.

Monday:
Monday (was yesterday) was another day mostly of lessons. Didn't really have time to sort out doctors. Lessons were tiring as normal. Watched OC in the evening.
not much else to say. will update tomorrow

Friday

Yesterday was relaxing. I woke up late as I was tired and then immediately had to throw on some clothes as Valeria (landlady) was there and needed to take us to the office place. Tatiana joined us in the car and we had to drive to the engineering department to get Victor. After that we went to the office, it was the same one as before. She didn't know that I already had a codice fiscale, so we decided to double check it as I didn't have the code on me anyway. We waited for a while, then got it all sorted. The code on my uni card isn't the right tax code. We were going to wait to get the subsequent rent forms sorted, but V and T had an exam and had to leave. Valeria dropped me off at Ecu and I did a bit of shopping and went home.
The rest of the afetrnoon was spent doing normal things like showering and internet.
I spoke to Lucie and she said she wanted to go to this bar called Transylvania that we'd seen! We both got slightly dressed up to fit in a bit more then met up. It was actually a cool place, alot bigger than I expected. They even do food! Downstairs is like a small gig venue, like for pub style bands. Its all dressed up like a medieval castle (but v fake, obviously) and theres big screens playing cool music. The cocktails arn't cheap but its a fun place. We want to go back on halloween! haha Downstairs they have tables of coffins! With plastic on top and fake skeltons in it!! I took a photo! It was fun.
Update tomrrow xx

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday

I'm doing all of these in one blog as the days were pretty much the same. Dull. They comprised of lectures, tiredness and internet. Wednesday night was cool thou. It was the French week at Hobby One. We got food, not very french he he. There was tomato pasta with parmesan, some weird stuff like looked like beans, toast with spread and salad. Not alot for me to eat due to the cheese, but it was ok. After that there was this "moulin rouge" show, which was basically these girls prancing about in the lingerie they got from the shops! haha It was amusing enough to watch though. There was a guy who also danced. He covered for the girls while they did a small costume change. They danced to Moulin Rouge (voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir? being the only line in french) and some other song that I forget, also in English. It was fairly fun to watch thou, and this time we had a good view. After that it was the normal bad music all in English. It wasn't a bad night though. At the beginning I spoke to all these french speaking Belgians, which was cool. Later on Lydia Hannah and Elosia arrived (just when the Belgians left). Lydia had brought Matt along with her, which was cool. Hes lovely, but alot more rygby type build than I expected for some reason. He'd only arrived a few hours before and was a bit shellshocked really. It was also lovely to see Hannah again. Later there was a big bunch of English as we bumped into Richard (Lydia's friend from Bristol who is here too). I didn't stay really late. Left about 2, and got home at half past.

The morning after was horrible. I got up late, but I had this stinking cold. My throat was sore and my nose was blocked solid but runny. I felt really bad, but I still went to my lecture at 11. I chatted to Nicola for a bit before we realised that it was Thursday and we were in the wrong room. We didn't miss much but I was feeling so crap. I decided to go straight home and miss my lecture later on in the day. I stayed at home and watched alot of the OC. It was great and I got to feel less rank. I went out in the evening despite the cold. Everyone else was going clubbing again! I said that i'd go to the bar and socialise before the club opened. It was good, one of the Belgian girls was there with Lucie, and all the Lydia's flat people were there. I ended up staying quite late, but it was ok. I didn't drink there, just coke.

Update tomorrow hopefully xx

Thursday night and the long weekend

Thursday night:
We met up with Julia (Hungarian friend of Lucie's) and Lucie at Bar Lime and got drinks. We ended up staying there for ages rather than just half an hour due to the club not actually opening!! When we got in it was ok, there were these two spanish guys with us that I didn't really know very well. Two guys with cameras came around and took pictures. One of them of me and Lucie is actually nice! Music was crap as ever. I went home earlyish as mum was arriving tomorrow.

Friday:
I had a good mini lie in. Got up and sorted slowly and stayed online (doing my blog). She then called me and I set off. It took me alot longer than I had anticipated and I got confused at one point. Eventually though we found each other and it was great! We went to the hotel, dumped stuff then went to visit my flat. She liked it, but it didn't take long to show her around lol. We then went for lunch at this cafe along my road and discussed things and took pictures. We saw some graduates with their laurel wreaths! After that mum went to have a mini siesta as she had got up early to get here. I stayed at the flat and didn't do much. We spent the afternoon on a mini tour planned by me. We started at Piazza Maggorie, then went to Piazza St Giovanni in Monte (where my lectures are, and there were more graduates), then to the due torri (where we stopped for an ice cream) and down Via Zamboni. Once we had done that we started off towards the restaurant that I wanted to take mum to. We did get slightly confused at where it was, but once we got maps out we realised how near I was. We got a table and were sent downstairs. The last time that I had eaten at this place I had a delicious soup, so I knew this would be good. We shared a salad, which was nice, and then got tagliatelli al ragu (otherwise known as spagetti bolognese). It was amazingly delicious! We did however have quite a depressing conversation about the credit crunch and how it was going to mean a global depression 1930s style. That scared me a bit. Also I got news from home. When we left the restaurant and went upstairs to pay the bill we bumped into Lydia, Christina and Eloisa! They were getting cake lol. After that we went home/hotel to bed.

Saturday:
I actually slept over a bit on Saturday! I met mum outside the town hall and we went to the Morandi exhibition. Mum got annoyed that I kept yawning, but I was just tired. I'm pretty sure after that we went to get a drink in a cafe on Via Clavature. This was basically to kill time before lunch and to be honest I can't remember if that was saturday or sunday! I had this basically pure lemon lemonade that even like 4 packets of sugar didn't fix!! ha ha but anyway after that we went to Bar Lime and got a panini each and a drink. It was nice to chill. After that we went to the Interntational book store and I got a map of Bologna but also the surrounding area. We spent the rest of the day going around places. We went to the Basillica di San Petriono, which was cool, then to the medieval museum. Mum insisted on going down back streets. We also had a look around lots of areas and found a random canal running through. We then went back to my flat, spoke to Iz and Dad on Skype and then got a text from Lydia about meeting up for dinner. This restaurant was nice and it was only Lydia who was there when we arrived. I had Tortellini al brodo (pasta filled with meat, in broth). Lydia had bigger Tortellini with cheese in and with ragu. Mum had some cheese and grilled veg. My food was nice, but the broth was really watery. We had a selection of meats as a starter. Again we went home after dinner.

Sunday:
We met up later today than we had the day before. I still got out of Sunday morning cleaning though haha! We met up and had another drink and lunch at the same cafe as the first day. It was nice. Then we went to San Luca. This involves a nice colonaded walk for half the way then a ugly straight uphill struggle for the rest of it. The chapels along the way are all recent compared to the walkway and are mostly dull. It was tough. The views at the top are good, but not as good as in Tuscany and there are many trees in the way. We had a nice picnic that we got from the deli the day before. Mum tried to take photos of me but they all looked bad. The church on the inside was waaay OTT, in a strange way. Me and mum spoke about why there arn't really equivilents to this in England and about the reformation and all that. Then we walked back down all the way again, past lots of groups of people praying. We decided that the most sensible thing to do would be to get the bus up and then walk down hehe. That evening we went out for Pizza. The place I had been was really nice, and we had good food. I had a ham and egg Pizza and mum had one with lots of veg on. It was a nice meal but I was quite sad that she was going. We talked about alot of emotional things. When we got back to the hotel I said goodbye. I felt really sad and cried a bit on the way home. I stayed a short time online then went to bed.

Monday:
Not much happened on Monday. First thing I did when I woke up was call mum to make sure she got on the bus to the airport all ok. Then I had a shower and dragged myself to my lecture. 9am lectures on a Monday are always as hard as they sound. At 11 I went to see Lucie, but she was slightly late so I got a coke (caffine is goood) and read the newspaper to see how much I could understand. Lucie arrived and we chatted for an hour or so but then she left. I went back, got some lunch and went online. By that time it was time for my other lectures. They were dull and hard work too. Nothing much else happened the rest of the day, normal eating, online kinda stuff.

thats a long blog!! will keep you updated xxx

Thursday

I woke up early on Thursday because I thought that I had a lecture at 11, when I remembered that I didn't. Lecture had been replaced by this History festival later on in the day. The morning was comprised of the normal checking of 50000 e-mails and general internetness. I had to be at the church place where this festival was at half 2, so I left fairly early and took my time. It was only the road beyond the road for the piazza where I normally have lectures so I found it easily.
It was this massive lecture hall, with a small stage and people milling about. I saw a few of my coursemates so sat with them. It turned out to be really dull. Nothing interesting at all so me and Stephen (american guy) left early and I waited for my lecture.
The lecture was cool. We watched a documentary/drama thing on hominins. It was really funny though as it was not really that much of an archaeology serious type programme and was aimed at entertaining people with a small bit of science. During it I was translating words with my Italian friend, and how I have a larger vocab. I even know what knapping in italian is! It was fun.
After my lecture I went to Lydias and we ate stuff. I had pasta, with bits of paella and various stuff. There was also burnt cake which was more like brownie as it hadn't risen! ha
humm mums arriving soon, will finish later xx

Wednesday

So I've already blogged about what happened last night. Sleep has taken the weirdness of it, and i'm feeling calmer about it now.
Yesterday morning was dull, I never do any work in the morning. I spent time online chatting to people when I should have been going to co op really. oh well.
Went to my lecture early and got lunch on the way. That morning I had been in touch with this Phd student who my lecturer said was in Bologna too. Turns out he was going to the same lecture as me. It was cool to chat. Him, me and this Dutch guy went for a quick coffee after. After that we split up and I went to the library. I was supposed to be copying up this Italian girl's notes but I found it too dificult and so went through some grammar and vocab instead. Second lecture wasn't our normal lecturer (I think hes in Budapest for some random reason). Instead it was this really pretty woman who spoke faster than most people drive. I didn't get hardly any of it. It was really short though and I got home early. After that I spent alot of time deciding whether or not I was going to go out. Eventually I decided that I would, the rest is below.
I may do a blog on The Glass Passenger, for all the jm.org people who've seen my blog before

The weirdest thing just happened

I need to talk about this, and as no one here knows anything about the situation I thought i'd use this as its as good a place as any to write things down and get my head straight. I'm still in dull shock.
I went out tonight and we started talking to this Italian guy. He said he knew another English girl who was here tonight and that she was from Birmingham. She was there later but it turns out that shes not from Birmingham but went to Leicester and was in the same halls as me! I didn't recognise her but she said she was in black block. Black block was the block where my friend Andy lived. I found out he was dead a while ago, there was a funeral and everything. He was one of my friends, although not a really close one it still affected me. I spoke to him alot online and I knew he didn't have the most mentally healthy ways of thinking so I was sure it was suicide. This was compounded by the fact that I knew he had tried before and that no one would tell me what happened. I cried the night I found out, and sporadically the next 2 days. This was during revision time and I found it difficult. I've thought about him occasionally during the time between then and now. The most recent being when my ipod played me alive by pearl jam (one of his favourite bands that I put on my ipod to remember him by).
Oh dear this isn't being very clear is it, sorry.
So I said that she must have known him and she said that yes she was one of his good friends. She told me what had really happened, even though she was tearing up. Basically him and his friends had a house party before exams to let their hair down before revising and exams. He got really drunk like most students do, and fell alseep on his back. This lead to him chocking on his own vomit. Really not the most pleasant way to go. His housemates found him in the morning.
I was saddened by this, but also pleased that it wasn't what I had originally thought. I'm glad that he was happy, and not in a self destructive hating mood that I had heard him in before. Despite this i'm still feeling very weird about it all. Its made even more bizzare by having found out in a nightclub in Bologna!! talk about the last place you expect to find out, and I had kind of given up on the idea that I was ever going to find out. I just needed somewhere to talk about it.
I hope sleep will help. I have a lecture at 11 tomorrow
Wednesdays day blog will be up tomorrow xx

Tuesday

Hey again.
Last night was really fun. We all met up at bar Lime, had drinks then moved on to Corto Maltease. 2 for 1 cocktails were taken advantage of and it was a fun night. There was a point where this really sleazy ugly horrid guy was all over our group. Personally I wanted to slap him but everyone else thought I was over reacting, so I didn't. I still wish I had, I hate attention like that.

Today I got up late and was really dehydrated. I got water and sorted myself out. I spent today mostly online looking at various websites to help with learning Italian. Some of them are really good and definitely worth working though. Also newspapers in Italian are all over the internet, just like English ones. Makes me wonder why people bother paying! The language in Italian broardsheets is a bit advanced for me at the mo, am sticking to the free "metro" style ones.
I got an e-mail from my lecturer with this really cool list of archaeological Italian words. Could have done with that before I arrived haha although I may well have ignored it if I had.
My lecture was ok, and I chatted to Stephen the American about various stuff on the way home. I had food with the Brazillians as they had cooked way too much. It was just pasta with tomatoey oniony stuff but it tasted great. Not done much else and am going to go to bed early xx

Monday

Hey, sorry about the last blog. I was so so tired and just wanted to get it done so I could sleep. I hate having to blog about things days after as I forget what went on. I'm blogging now, even though my day isn't finished, I can blog about tonight tomorrow.
This morning my lecture was long and hard. I managed to concentrate right up until the end though. I understood alot of it, which is good as for the last two weeks the weekend has caused my understanding to plumet come Monday. After that I was going to meet with Lucie but I got a text to meet later so instead I went to buy some stuff that I needed. I went to the international bookstore and got this (what seems like) a really good grammar book for Italian. Its kinda step by step, starting from the basics. It looks really good, and is better than me learning grammar at my own steam. It has a test at the back to make sure you understand, which is great. After that I went to this cheap cleaning/toiletries ect shop and got razors and conditioner. At that point I had to meet Lucie so I went back. I've been looking for blu tack here but its really hard to find. At random I saw it in this newsagent so I got it. It was €4 which is quite alot! and I only had just under 4 but it was ok he let me have it anyway. Its for my Italy map and my historical Britain map that I have no idea where to put.
Lucie had to pay for my lunch as I had spent all my money! I felt bad but i'm either going to repay her v soon or buy a cocktail for her hehe. She says bringe drinking happens alot in Northen France. She had pizza and chips and coke for lunch, I had a procuttio panini. We had fun sharing music while we ate. Shes so funny and lovely.
Not much else to share after that. 4 hours of really brain numbing lectures. After the last one I got all his powerpoints put on my external hard drive, which was nice of him. He also offered me to do the exam in English, but I said I will try in Italian.
Am off out now xx

Saturday and some Sunday

So...yesterday. I didn't get up too late, i think it was about 9. But i'm gunna skip to the interesting part as most of my day was fairly dull. Weekends are mostly about staying at the flat and not doing much. Maybe other weekends I could do stuff and get the train. This weekend Hannah has gone to Edinbrugh and Lydia is with her dad so there not much going on. I was going to go to the first lesson of this course in Marxism, but I was really tired. I ate lunch and boring stuff of that variety.
I met Lydia and her dad for drinks at half 7 in the evening. He is lovely, paid for my coke and they had processo. Then they left and I met Lucie. We wandered around this church for a while not knowing where we were going then we phoned up and found the place. Ironically it was where I pointed out to Lucie but she didn't think it was near enough the church ha ha.
So we met with the people we were going to the place with. I went with Lucie in the car. It was dark by this time and it took us ages to find the place as we got lost along the way! Me and Lucie talked about languages, and about using the tu form and the vous form in French. When we arrived at this town we got out and walked through the centre of the town to this big building that looked like a depot or a big supermarket. It had a marquee coming out of it so we entered there. The fair had finished but they were still making food at this big restaurant with truffles on almost every dish. I explained to the waiter about food and he asked the chefs for me. He came back and said that the only thing without milk in was risotto al tartafou. I had that but I really didn't like it, it made me feel quesy. Lucie had ravioli al ragu, which is ravioli with bolognase sauce but I couldn't have it as the ravioli were stuffed with cheese. This was really late, at about half 10 by the time we were eating. We didn't really talk that much to the Italian girls who were near us. After this I went home in a differnt car to Lucie as these were going to cental Bologna near me, and hers was going to further out where she lives. It workrd out ok as they went past my road so I asked to be dropped off there and it was a v short walk.
When i got back at like half 12 I had to hang out in my room all the wet washing from the washing machine that I had put on earlier that evening. In the car on the way home I had my first thought in French. It was "je dois faire quelque chose avec mes vetements" which means I must do something with my clothes. Then I went to bed.

Today I have really done very little. Me and the Japanese guy Mas cleaned the kitchen while the others did the other rooms. I downloaded a new album and listened to it twice. It was great. In the morning I hung up my clothes to dry and they're all nice and ready to wear now. Thats all really
xx

Friday

So me and Lucie had fun in Kinki (its a nightclub) we both agreed the music wasn't very good though. We left at about 2, exhausted!!
In the morning I had a long lie in, and it was goooooooooood! I stayed in bed until about 11, then i got up, showered then had lunch. It was a big mass of star pasta with tomato sauce on it and two fried eggs, tasted great.
After lunch I just kinda went online for a while and got v bored. Lucie invited me out for aperertifs (damn can't spell) but i forgot until the time that I was sposed to be meeting her so I text her and said I would be there soon. They were in the English pub, we had a cocktail and food. It was good. Lucie was mainly talking in Italian to this Hungarian girl. I understood most of it, but couldn't add much to the conversation myself so I felt a bit left out. It was ok thou, as working hard on understanding Italian is always good. At the end though my energy and concentration went out of the window and I gave up. Luckly we didn't stay there that much longer. I got home about half 11 and slept.
Update soon x

Argh I never blog enough. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday

Tuesday:
I got up early (early lecture) and toddled off to my lecture. At the end of my lecture this Italian girl started talking to me and said I could borrow her notes. I thanked her, but after that this guy who was there started talking to me. Hes an American, from Brown University (they have a special Brown office here for American students) called Stephen. He said that he could photocopy the notes for free, so I lent him the notebook and arranged to meet him the next day so that I could give these back to the Italian girl.
I think this was also the day when, in the morning lecture, one of the italian students started talking to me and my Aussie friend Nicola. I didn't understand what he was saying. It turns out that these two Italians are doing a specialist degree in medieval history. They're finding the course waaay to easy and want to speed up as they have some kind of project to do soon. They were sweet thou. I can't remember what I did between lectures and in the evening, oh dear.

Wednesday:
OK, yesterday I still got up fairly early as I had to get my documents from the international office. That turned out to be fairly easy, then I met Lucie as we were going to get ESN cards (this being the only day of the week that the office is open *rolls eyes*). We had to wait for this Hungarian girl that Lucie had met and we all went together. Cards were fairly simple, just pay and give infomation. After that they both went to see their tutor so I had lunch at this really nice bar/cafe place called Bar Lime. We go there all the time. In the day its like a cafe, at night it does cocktails and stuff. So I had lunch there on my own and read this newspaper someone had left. It was interesting, but difficult language. I think I should start with the free tabloid type ones they give out all the time here. Then I had my lectures, met Stephen again and gave back the notebook. When the first lesson finished I went to the university computer site, which was interesting. I didn't do much thou, and I still can't figure out how to print stuff, but its ok. Went back for my next lecture and at the end still chatted to Steven. I'd been invited out by Lucie but declined due to tiredness, and was planning to go to dinner with Hannah, Chistina and Lydia. They hadn't text me times or places so I stayed chatting to Stephen and he met with this other American girl. They invited me for drinks until I knew what I was doing, but I realised I didn't have any money and would have to go home. So I rushed off home and got back to meet the girls for dinner quite late, but they arived at the same time. We went to this pub type restaurant place and ate outside by candlelight, it was good. I had this awesome chickpea and potato soup. Everyone else had tagliatelli al ragu, which is spag bol. They had wine and small desserts after. Before that we also had bruchetta, with raw tomatoes on. Lydias one had olives and cheese on. Bed came soon after

Thursday:
Today I got up and went to my lecture, but it didn't happen. Very confused. I went and got socks, as I hadn't done washing and therefore had ran out ha ha. Then I went back to my flat, went online for ages, then had a rest for a while. Oh, include lunch in that as well. I got up from my rest and went to my lecture, ate dinner and I'm now off to go clubbing, as when I gave my excuses yesterday I had to agree to be out today. Just as well I don't have any lectures tomorrow and can sleep. Its a bit said that Lydia will be away in Milan and Hannah in Edinbrugh this weekend, as there are less people to see. Sure I will find something to do thou. Will update soon xxx

Monday

Yesterday I woke up early and got ready for my 9am lecture. urgh! Last week seemed to be going so well with the understanding lectures but this week it felt like it was back in the beginning with understanding nothing. I was also very tired. After the lecture I met up with Lucie and we went to find this office where they were selling ESN cards. ESN is erasmus student network and its an organisation that puts on fun things for erasmus students to do while they're at the new uni. There was going to be a film that evening that we wanted to see and you needed the card. It was shut (typically Italian) but there was another french girl there and we got chatting. Shes called Lynda and shes really pretty (*grumble grumble*). After that I went home, got something to eat and prepared for the next 4 hours of lectures :( They were really tough. The first hour is normally ok, after that my concentration really startes to wane. The first lecture went ok, and there was a break between the two. The second one however was really bad. The lecturer has such an accent that I can't understand him at all. The one saving grace however was that he put up loads of stuff on the powerpoint so I could copy from it. Thats alot more helpful than the other lecturerers, but to be honest, I need that help seeing as how bad I am at understanding him. He talked about archaeological theory, which i've already studied. After the lecture I went home and ate a bit and spoke to mum on skype. I arranged to meet up with Lucie and Lynda at a bar for drinks but then thought that it would be better if those two got to know each other first. I text Lucie telling her that, and que massive communciation breakdown. I thought she was upset with me, and anyway it all got sorted out and I did meet them and it was all fine. Then I went to bed

Weekend

Ok so this weekend I got up late both days. It was good to catch up on some sleep as i'm not used to going out lots.
Saturday I really did almost nothing until about half 5!! at that point I met up with Lydia and we went shopping for some knickers as she needed more and her washing machine wasn't working. It was a fairly sedate trip. After that we met up with Hannah and her Edinbrugh friend Lachie (pronounced lock-e) and we went for somewhere to eat. It was the festival day for Bologna's patron saint and so there was a classical music performance and other stuff going on in the main square. The music was fairly dull so we went to eat. I had a huge cheap pizza and it was great. Lydia had a seafood pasta dish, i hate seafood. After that we ran to catch the fireworks, which were the grand finale of all the events of the day but we just missed them. When there I met up with Lucie. I don't remember if we all went for a drink or not. hummm
Sunday again was another lie in! That day I got the bus to Hannah's but before that I needed to kill time so I went shopping. I felt very uninspired by everything and didn't buy anything. Alot of shops were shut anyway, it being Sunday. Then Hannah rang and said everyone had finished eating (Lydia had been invited over to Franceso's house for a meal with his family) so I waited for the bus. It took AGES! Eventually I got there and all was good. Francesco was there with his brother (along with the two girls) but he had to go v soon after. Lydia, Hannah, me and Francesco's brother Julio went to this park and had a chat about stuff. Mostly music as Julio plays drums and Hannah bass guitar. After that us girls went back to Hannah's and chatted about nothing much really. Me and Lydia took the bus back home and when we got to the city centre we both were going to get off and she got off then the doors closed and I got taken to the next stop!! luckily it wasn't too far away and I just went home. I remember having dinner here in the flat, as we had arranged before to have sushi in a restaurant near Hannah's but it was shut. I can't remember if we went out or not as we seem to have gone out everyday and they all kinda merge into one! It impedes my sleep, precious precious sleep.
right, thats all for this weekend. Now for Monday (yesterday)

Friday

So yesterday... humm
I got up and went to the uni, as I needed to get my certificate of arrival signed and stamped here. After that we'd arranged yesterday to meet at the market at 12, so I wandered around and us 5 (yes, its now 5. we've expanded) all met up and went round the market. People didn't really buy anything, other that I got a pair of socks for a euro. That didn't take very long so then we went to this really swanky place that had really nice food for lunch. Most people had a pasta/salmon dish, Hannah had a wrap with ham and I had hot cooked peppers with sausage bits. It tasted really good, but was expensive.
After that everyone else went home but I went shopping in Co op for some food seeing as the cupboard here is bare. I got wraps, crisps, passata sause, orange juice, cereal, olive oil, ameretto, lettace, smoked salmon and stuff. Walking home was hot and sweaty, urgh. Worth it for the food thou. Then I chilled online for a while. At this point I was really hungry and I wasn't going to be eating until 8.30 so I had a wrap and some crisps.
At 8 we were going to go around to Hannah's for dinner so I met up with Lucie and we got the bus. It took a while to arrive though. When we got to where we thought Hannahs was we couldn't find it so we phoned. It took us over half an hour to finally sort out where she was, with much wandering along roads and panicy phone calls. We arrived a bit later than 9 I think. She'd made really nice food. We had cous cous with grilled aubergine and squash with a chicken breast. It was really good. Then for dessert we had sugary coconut buiscut/cake thing with magno (i think it was) on top. they had lashings of cream with it too. That was also really good. Hannahs flatmates and two friends were also there and they were chatting away. They asked me what I studied and all approved when I said archaeology. We also had a quick convo about my trowel (Hannah wanted to know what it was in Italian). Later on there was some food left and it was offered around and I was the only non Italian who had more and I got loud cheers of brava! for the Italians lol. I think they thought it was a bit weird that I wasn't drinking wine, but they didn't say anything. After we'd eaten the Italians went off to get ready for the night out and us lot stayed and chatted. During this time there were many loud girly shrieks from the other rooms, v funny. Not much happened after that, we got the bus and I went home.
Today, i've not done anything. Had cereal and thats about it he he. Its the festival of San Petrino today (i think hes Bologna's patron saint) so its a big festival and theres concerts and stuff going on in Piazza Maggorie this evening. We're going, and will blog about it later

Wednesday, Thursday and Today

Sorry, lacking on the blog front. At least I have proper encoded internet that actually works in my own room now. It got set up today and now theres a new washing machine as I type.
Right.. Wednesday. I got up really early cuz my timetable said I had a lecture but as I was waiting outside I double checked the times on a different sheet and realised it said tuesday morning not wednesday morning hence i'd missed it the morning before. Blame Hannah for telling me wrong (she told me the info and I wrote it down).
So I went home for a bit and felt a bit bored so I text this french girl that I'd met on Monday during the long registration to see if she wanted to meet up for lunch. So we did, and spent an hour and a half mainly talking French, which was cool. She left at half 2 so I chilled and went down to the faculty. There I bumped into Hannah and she was going to go to get a bike so we went to this second hand market random curiosity shop and got her this really cool red retro bike. It was a bit old and there were a few problems but she took it to a repair shop and its as good as new now. I don't remember what we did in the eveing, but we probably did something cuz we've been out alot. Not always late, but still out.
Yesterday I got up and went to my lecture. I had a bit of a nightmare trying to find the room, but I was helped by my Aussie friend. She was also completely lost like me. In the end we found this guy who said we couldn't take our bags down there and gave us keys for a locker. We were really confused because we were sure that it was just a normal computer room and that we wern't using computers alone. He was right though and we put our bags in the locker and went down into the basement, which was kinda cool. There was a table and people around it. Baring in mind it had taken us 15 minutes into the lecture time she had only just arrived herself so we didn't miss anything. It was about lots of things, including the chesia di San Stefano, which is just over the road from the building we were in. That was kinda cool. She also showed us slides of really cool Lombard stuff, and it all looked (well, the brooches and rings which is mostly what she was showing us) fairly similar to vikings. It was cool. After the lecture I had lunch with the Aussie girl, we chatted about travelling, her visas ect and it was all good.
Later, at 8 we had all arranged to meet to watch an Italian film at the cinema. We saw this film that was called the semen of discontent, which is funny. It wasn't at all a porn film though. It was about this woman who wants a baby but doesn't get on with her husband really and she thinks hes infertile so she checks out artifical insemination clinics. Then she gets attacked and raped and she goes around trying to find out who it was while this policeman guy stares at her and says he'll help her. Then she finds out shes pregnant and her husband gets a call saying hes infertile from tests he did so he gets really angry at her and leaves her. Eventually she finds out that the police guy raped her after she got attacked and she gets annoyed at him and after a while gets back with her husband. It was difficult to understand though.
After that we went to this really nice bar that we go to quite alot called bar lime. I'd been collected 2 for 1 drinks tokens and we had some nice cocktails. Hannah was really tired and went early but me, Lydia, my French friend Lucie and Lydias flatmate Christina who is scottish. We then went to this club near the bar and tried to talk to some guys but they kinds rejected us. We danced a bit then went home.
Damn, gotta go. will update about today tomorrow xx

Tuesday so far

Hey, I'm bored so I thought i'd update.
Not much has gone on today. I got up fairly early and had a shower. Walked to the faculty to find another course. The course I had my eye on looks cool, and fits with my timetable this half of the semester. Just realised that it will clash with the course i'm taking the next half of the semester. Damn.
The course doesn't start until next week so I still only have my one late lecture today. Alot of my lectures are 5-7. My courses are Etrucscan archaeology, archaeology and history of medieval Emilia-Romagna and finally prehistory and protohistory. I'm still unsure what the hell protohistory actually is. So yeh I did a to do list and went home, as most of the stuff I have to do is online. Needless to say I havn't done much of it yet. I did check my uni e-mail though. I havn't eaten yet and i'll find some lunch soon, really hungry.
My lecture later is on etrucans, should be cool. Gotta go xx

Monday

Hello!!
So today has been a fairly stressful day. This morning I got up early and went to register, when I was halfway down Via Zamboni when I realised that, despite having my passport, I didn't have my passport photos! This sent me into a stress so I ran up to Ugo Bassi (thats the main central road) and found a photo booth. This cost €3 when I had already spent €7.50 before. So.. after running back to the registration place I found out I was 44 in the queue. 1-39 went fairly quick, then the bloody woman who was counting and calling out number went off with her friend. Que chaos, people in any random order. Its enough to make me love queues lol. So then eventually she came back and ordered us all out and made us go in numbers again. After hours of waiting (and I am talking hours. I arrived just after 9 and left at gone 11) I finally got into the offiice. Then more queuing, then a quick sorting out then off.
During the queue I met a really nice French girl called Lucie, and a Belgian girl and a German girl. We spoke mostly English and a bit of French. It was really nice to talk to Lucie in a different language and actually communicate. We swapped mobile numbers and we'll keep in touch and chat, which will be fun.
After that I went to the faculty to look at the courses I could do and there I bumped into Hannah who really really helped me understand what I was doing. I chose some cool courses then we sat in a cafe and made a timetable. One of the courses clashed so I took off the one I liked least. I had already missed a lecture in the morning, which is ok in Italy as no one decides what courses they're doing for ages. I had a lecture in the afternoon for the module on Emilia Romana in Medieval times so I went to that.
I arrived where the lectures are and it was this really lovely piazza with loads of old buildings. One of them was the history dept that includes the archaeology dept. I got there early and found the room, when I went in there was this Austrailian girl that i'd met before (in the long tortuous hours of registration) and I sat with her. I didn't understand 99% of the lecture and spent most of it frantically writing down any word at all I could understand. As a result my notes consist of random words. She said that we were going to be having field trips, which is awesome. She also talked about making notes for us, which is great as i'll be able to translate them alot more easily than her talking. They don't even have powerpoints with the main points on! Oh well, it'll be fine.
Right, am going out for drinks tonight. Don't think I missed anything else out. night xxx

Sunday

So, I've officially been here a week. It feels like I know this place so well already but also it feels like theres alot more hills to climb, like with lessons and reading and everything. I'm a bit worried about lectures actually, i'm sure I won't understand anything. I'm going to do this course that teaches you Italian which I hope will help.
Today I got up alot earlier than my flatmates and had a shower and washed my hair. It felt good. Then I went online for a while, did blog and stuff. The net was ok, stolen from someone somewhere near here.
After that I met up with Lydia and Hannah at the internet cafe, along with some bread on the way as I was v v hungry. Not much went on there as i'd already been online so was just sitting there chatting. Its not that nice a place, the corner smells badly of piss. Cheap though.
After this me and Lydia went to IKEA. Theres a bus from the city centre all the way out for €5 return. Lydia bought loads of stuff as she didn't have anything in her bags, and I got a bunch of things. Bin, second sheet and duvet cover, bath mat (the current one is a horrid dirty towel), alarm clock, plate, mug, cutlery, bowl and a blanket. Think thats all.
When we got back to the city centre we had a load of massive bags and had to drag them all across the city which was horrid. We stayed at Lydias for a bit while she unpacked and I chose my courses for tomorrow. Italian uni system for Erasmus students is complicated beyond belief. We can pretty much pick and choose what we like. Plus theres hardly any actual archaeology modules, so most of mine are history. Anyway, I digress. When Hannah arrived after having been to her flat we decided that we'd had too much pizza in the last week. We chose to eat at the same place we did on the first night, as it had nice pasta dishes fairly cheap. It was again a good meal and just over €10 a head. Now i've back here and its like midnight so im off. night xx

Saturday

Hello again!
So I'm now in my house in the dining room writing this! exiting or what!! everyone else is still in bed I think.
yesterday I stayed overnight at Lydia's. Her room is nice. That evening we all went out for drinks with this Spanish guy called Julio who lives with Lydia. I went home as I was really really tired and after two strong cocktails (they don't use measures here, its literally as much as they pour in) I was a bit drunk. I promptly fell alseep and didn't stir when Lydia came back from the club they'd all been to.
In the morning we had a lie in and didn't realise it was almost 12, so we quickly sorted ourselves out and went to meet Hannah (whos staying where Lydia was before due to not having a matress on her bed in her flat for 4 days). We then went to this sweet place called "plenty market" that seemed like a kind of deli/good food shop. We got pesto, sun dried tomatoes, bread, fruit and a ham/salami pack and went off to the city park to have lunch. It was great and really tasty. After that we went back to where Lydia was staying before as I still had one of my bags there, and we trecked all the way with heavy backs back to hers. From there I called a taxi and got driven (at the vast expense of €12) to my new place.
I got there and the landlady went through a load of things I needed to know. Shes so neurotic, examples include telling me that I have to clean the shower everytime I use it, and going through opening the door a few times (though in her favour it wasn't as easy as it sounds). I also had to go through a form that she gives to the police and all stuff like that. Even though shes obsessive I quite like it because it reassures me that shes doing everything properly and that things will get fixed quickly if they break. Hannah and Lydia havn't had the same kinda paperwork, maybe they will in time.
After we'd finished sorting everything out I went to get credit for my Italian phone and walked all the way to Lydia's which takes about half an hour. Once I was there we had some pizza and some of the leftovers from lunch. After that we started watching this weird old film about american graffti artists but we didn't like it and so changed it to Withnail and I which kinda freaked me out a bit. We were all really tired and then Lydia fell asleep so we stopped the film, had a quick chat then I went home.
I arrived and all of my housemates were in the kitchen. There was a guy and a girl cooking food, and two girls on the computer on the kitchen table. They all seem really sweet and they know enough english to help me out when I can't say things in Italian. We do mostly stick to speaking Italian though, and I was surprised how much I could get across to them and what I understood. I'm still really bad at Italian though, but i'm going on a course for it with the university here, and i'm going to speak to lots of people and read the newspapers (they have loads of free ones here, just like in England) so I hope i'll improve quickly. The two girls are Turkish and the other two are Brazillian. A Japenese guy moves in this evening, which will be interesting.
At the moment the washing machine doesn't work, and internet is still being connected (we're waiting for a password from the ISP I think) so we're all stealing other peoples lol.
My room is a decent size. It has a wall of wardrobe, and a single bed with a bedside table and a workdesk next to it. There is an armchair and two normal kitchen type chairs. Its really nice. The only thing i'm a bit worried by is that clothes are dried off the balcony and i'm worried that clothes will fall off and go 20/30 feet down and get muddy again. It should be ok thou.
Ok, think thats all. Will update tomorrow. Bye

opps

Right, so i'm really bad at keeping this up to date. I'll give a quick summary. Basically we've been out for dinner most nights, for pizza or pasta or (last night) paninis. Its been really good and me, Lydia and Hannah have become a proper little team. Its really nice to have some people for support, socialness and some Italian help as i've realised how little I know. It is improving slowly but surely even if I do occasionally throw in some french conjuction words. Oh well. We have mostly been flat hunting and learning our way around. There has been masses of flat appointments with varing sucess mixed with various talks by the uni to help us out and explain how everything works (about bloody time).
This morning I got up early (i've been sharing a room with Hannah for the last two days as its a cheap hotel and together the bill is halved). I went to brussola who are the people who find you somewhere to live. I made the appointment two days ago as I was having trouble finding somewhere. Thank god I did as it didn't get any better. Yesterday I had been to see this really really nice flat but they said that the doors to the flat closed at 11pm (which is early considering the times i've been out this week, we've really got into Italian timing) and there could be no friends over. I wasn't going to go for that. So at the appointment this morning I upped the price I was willing to pay, otherwise I pretty much couldn't afford anything in the centre and would be really far out. There were a few places that seemed ok and they rang them up for me. I've tried this myself a few times, its scary as hell even if you do have a script. Italians have a tendancy to ask questions that you're not expecting. So there was one really well placed flat and although I was planning to do registration this morning and go to an open day thing the landlady was round at the flat now and couldn't really do this afternoon. I decided to just go for it and went off to see it immediately. Its about 10 minutes walk from the main central road and about 20 from the uni road, not too bad and certainly better than others i'd seen.
The flat is fairly small (to be expected) and would normally be full of other erasmus students. The landlady said that there were two Brazillians, two Turks and a Japanese person that I would be living with. I would prefer to live with Italians but hey, its a comprimise and we'll all be speaking Italian to each other anyway plus i'll make other Italian friends. The landlady also said that she loves English and would like to have sessions of learning each others language. She also really really stressed being quiet which makes a little bit of sense to me when all the other people I saw in the building were old men. She also said I had to tell her about anyone who was coming to stay with me, and make them sign and pay which was a bit weird. Might just not tell her lol. It was fine thou, with broadband internet ect ect. and my room is nice and big. She said it kinda was a double and theres two beds in it, but it was advertised as a single room, I think its easier to sell to people like me. I'd hate to share a room. The kitchen is like cupboard size, with a washing machine, sink and cooker in it, next to an ok size dining room with a balcony looking onto a pretty crappy street. Its not a pretty area but it'll do. I'd rather have that than a much nicer area that I had to bus in and out everyday. So yes, basically its all I need. I'm sure the other people are nice, but i'm out most of the day anyway.
We've really got into the Italian lifestyle. We get up early and do admin stuff. Basically all the uni offices work on a half day (mostly 9-11.30) which would cause bedlam in England. Then we meet at the uni centeen which is really really nice healthy food that is stupidly cheap (a few euros for a proper meal) and have a long lunch and chill out. Afternoons have mostly been spent house hunting so far but now thats finished it will change. We sit in cafes for hours with a drink chatting and disucssing stuff. I've had an ice cream everyday (except today randomly enough, and i'll prob have one later). Theres a few gelatarias, but theres a swish one at the top of via zamboni that has the most heavenly passionfruit sorbet for just over €2. Amazing. In the evenings we go out for dinner, never more than €10 a head and we always get given some sort of strong liqour afterwards lol. Yesterday it was a peach schnapps and vodka shot with strawberry sauce in it, and at a pizza place it was stong lemon liqour. We don't go for dinner until about 8 and thats normal Italian suppertime, maybe on the early side. Its so nice to relax in the warm darkness and chat and eat. Me and Lydia are going for supper with some Leicester people and others tonight.
Humm I think I might have exhausted my capacity for talking about the 5 days i've had so far. I'll definitely keep this updated as often as I can.

Yesterday part 1

Hello and welcome to the new blog. I'll start Monday at 4am, which is frankly a silly time of day.
We got up and got to the airport, and it was there that the drama started. I was all ready to check in (mum was parking the car) and then when it got to my turn the bags were alot overweight, which we knew would happen. They said oh that'll be £194 please!!!! So we spent the next 10 mins frantically unpacking everything even slightly un nessercary and i got really stressed. After that we decided that I couldn't possibly take anything less than I had and so we weighed it again and it came to £94ish, which is still silly. its £12 whole pounds per kilo over 15! really really silly. On the other hand it is a cheap airline and they have to make money somewhere. oh well.
When I arrived at Forli, which is a really small and fairly crummy airport I waited for the bus to Bologna. It was going to be an hour so I stood about feeling really hungry with two heavy bags that I couldn't leave to go and buy myself something from the food stand in my sight... then I saw a trolley. The food stall sold me a hot dog and water and i felt alot better. Some policemen also stopped and brought something while I was there.
After that I got on the bus and sat down and watched this guy opposite me on his phone. He had all his fingertips of his right hand together and was going in circles, italian body language is so cool. Then i saw two girls talking in English with Bristol info packs and we started chatting about erasmus and I said one of them looked familar, turns out its Lydia who is the neice of Matthew and Elena (family friends). Its really strange and I spent alot of time trying to make sense of how coincidental it all was. We spent a while after that chatting about erasmus and what we know and what we don't ect while the guy i mentioned before on the phone kept looking at us.
It turns out hes italian but speaks really really good american english from working out in New York for two years. We chatted to him and mined him for information. He was so so sweet and answered all our questions. It didn't escape any of us threes notice that he was also rather good looking hehe.
We arrived in Bologna and said goodbye to him. I took ages to find my hotel, with scraped sore hands and huffing and puffing. When I eventually got there thou it went really easily and I spent time in my hotel just having a shower.
I need to go to the supermarket and get some food so I shall be back to finish this.