After receiving my Italian Visa in July, it started to feel like all progress towards actually departing for Europe seemed to slow and that the big day would never come - - not to worry! Now things are moving plenty quickly. Within the past week I've made huuuuge strides and now find myself wondering how this summer could've possibly gone so quickly?! I leave in 3 days (yikes!) for Greece (yay!) and I can finally say this whole adventure is starting to feel real.
The most exciting piece of news I have thus far is that my final packet full of information for my arrival in Rome finalllllly arrived from my university! I should have known it would come this late in the summer - - after all it's all part of the Italian lifestyle: no sense of time or what's considered "late" compared to what's "on time." A definite change from the American culture of living by the clock - I look forward to adapting to a more laid back culture where being late isn't frowned upon :) Anyway, within my much anticipated packet was all my housing information complete with the address of my Italian apartment and a list of the 3 other girls I'll be living with - one of which is a good friend of mine from DU!! The best news of all is that I'll be living on Via Carini (via = street in Italian), which Google Earth tells me is only a few blocks from my university! So needless to say, I was extremely excited to find out that I won't have to master Roman public transportation in order to get to class, soccer (my school has a soccer team I'll be playing on!), etc. daily. That's all for now! I'm off to enjoy the last few days of my summer at home in Minnesota and hope that all of the packing I have left to do won't end up being too frantic of a process. Wish me luck and hope that the next time you hear from me I won't be complaining of bed-bug bites in Athens, Greece (evidently it's an issue in Athen's hostels...so I'm told...;)
Arrivederci,
Diana
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