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