Wednesday, 28 January 2009

This weekend and Monday and Tuesday

Hey everyone.
So this weekend has been ok. Saturday night I went out. Christina had friends over, so we all got together and went for a meal. We arrived at the osteria dell'orso, and it was raining. We asked, but a table for 7 wasn't going to be available for a while so we went to a nearby bar and all got a drink. It was a really nice very italian socialble place and there was alot of chatting going on. I thought Eloisa was a bit left out, due to the fact that we were mostly talking in English, but she didn't seem too put out. I finished early so me and Eloisa and Christina went to ask about the table again. We were told that we'd have to wait longer, so we went back and the decision was made to go to a different restaurant.
We all went to their landlords restaurant instead. The service was very slow, but the conversation was good, and I chatted to Eloisa a bit in Italian. I was served last, a humgungous pizza with sausage, bacon and potatoe chunks. It was delicious. Other people had muscles, or gnocci. I can't stand sea food! It seems to be the thing here though, along with other more traditional Italian dishes. Normally I finish my food but this pizza was massive and I was so so full. I shouldn't have eaten as much as I did, I was so full the whole night that I could hardly move. It tasted so good though. I had also had bruchetta (we started eating at 9, and didn't get served our main course until about half past 10!) which didn't help. I was expecting to be done and to go and see Lucie at half past 10. That caused alot of confusion, as my phone didn't send the texts I sent to excuse us.
Eventually we finished our meal (with extra dessert stuff free from the landlord) Eloisa and Hannah left us. We then made our way to the club. We arrived, found Lucie, Marco (Italian) and Julia (Hungarian) and made our way in. We got a table! and sat down. We took pictures, chatted, got drinks and waited for the dancefloor to get a bit fuller. During this time we had various interuptions from enthusaistic but rather overgroomed young Italian men. They were being nice, not pervy, so they didn't irritate me too much. Its just I still can't get used to the massive socialness, althought i've never been one for socialising in clubs. I think thats because, althought most people can't hear anything either, I have bigger problems because of my ears. Plus pubs and bars are for socialising, not clubs. I have no idea why so many people go to clubs with the expectation of pulling.
Enough ranting, on with the story. We brought a bottle of bubbly (not sure what type). We had to get it or pay for the table, and it was pretty expensive. I paid, even though I didn't drink it. Marco opened the bottle, with customary Italian florish. More drinking and chat. Eventually some people started to leave, and then we went on the dancefloor. As more and more people left it was just me and Lucie at about 1.30am dancing. We carried on late into the night and we got so tired that by the end we were just swaying around and being stubbon about not leaving until we had enough. I was still too full of food to feel very energetic. There was this really weird guy dancing by us as well. Julia went off with the guy who organised a table for us in the club. She got alot of attention, being very slim. We eventually went home, about an hour later than we normally would. I was utterly shattered.

Sunday not much happened. I slept late to catch up on sleep

Monday was the day of my exam. I woke up really early, as I always do when i'm worried and expect something. I stayed in bed until 7, and then set about getting myself ready for the exam. When I got there I had a stress trying to find the room, eventually I did and there were loads and loads of people there. I went to the next room and did revision as well as I could. Every half hour or so I would check on the queue, and it was always massive. Considering I arrived at 9, by the time it got to 12 I was very hungry and tired of waiting. When I checked the queue everyone had gone. I was confused and I saw in the room where the exams had been that there was a lecturers meeting. I asked at the main desk and apparnatly they had ran out of time. I have to do it another time. I suppose this suits me, as I was and still am very unprepared.
Monday was also Australia Day and I had been invited to a house party of some of my Aussie friends. When I went to go and see them I couldn't find where the road they live on was, despite having been down the road before. This resulted in me going up and down Via dell'independenza (a long main road) at least twice looking for it. I tried to phone said friends, but I have no credit on my phone. Eventually I gave up and came home again sadly.
Tuesday was very uneventful. I went food shopping, massive excitement! haha

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