Buongiorno Roma

I arrived with a few of my friends in Rome on Friday, January 5th at around what felt like 8 AM but it was really 2 PM. My friends were John, Owen, Ryan, and Adam and it turns out that Adam lost his luggage somewhere along one of his many flight connections from Ohio to Rome. We waited around for a couple hours to try and find his bag but to no avail, it was lost. We took a taxi for 45 euro to Piazza Compo di Fiore in the heart of Roman world... This is actually where we live and the site was incredible. The streets would not be able to fit an escalade going one way, but the smart Europeans have designed 2 seater "Smart" cars that are about 4 1/2 feet tall and are as long as a regular american car is wide. The crazy motorists on their "motorino's" zip around through the streets with no caution whatsoever and we all almost got hit a few times but we're used to them now. We arrived at our apartment in the middle of Compo di Fiori (field of flowers) as the vendors were closing up their tents full of fresh veggies (vegitale) and fruit (frutta) and meat (carne) and cheese (formaggio). My roomate Spiro was already here with a couple other friends like my freshman year roomate Jake, and others like Brian, Marco, Eleni, and Erin Tumey. We set everything down and set up our rooms. We all went to dinner at the pizza place called Pizzaria da Baffetto which means mustache because the owner has a big mustache, it was pretty awesome. After dinner our teacher took a few lucky students including myself out to our first architecture experience at this bar called Fluid. The interior was filled with incredible use of materials for the bar, walls, bathroom and stuff. After that, me and spiro went out to meet a few people at the american bars to get a feel for what the nightlife would be like. It was very lively and the caffes and bars are literally as close as 3 yards from our door. I am starting to like cappuchino... end of night uno