We Made It!

We made it to Orvieto!  It's been a year in the making and now it's finally here.  A semester abroad in Orvieto, Italy.  Exploring the town, the country and hopefully some of the continent.  Our apartment is perfect, not too big, not too small, beds are comfortable, kitchen is nice, new stove and oven, we have a tiny washing machine (under the kitchen counter), two bathrooms/showers (with showerheads that hook onto the wall!), and a nice courtyard out front.  Today has been an very, very long day.  With jet lag and a bizarre schedule that started with us waking up on the airplane after only 4ish hours of sleep and landing in Rome at 7:30am local time.  Next we piled on a large tour bus for a 1.5 hr drive to Orvieto.  I managed to stay awake for most of the bus ride but gave in a couple times to my heavy eyelids.  We got to Orvieto at 11am and our landlords met us in the Piazza Duomo to walk us to our apratments.  It was quite a haul to through the narrow streets over the cobblestones with our giant, noisy suitcases, but we managed.  Our landlord showed us around the apartment, taught us to use the gas stove, and left.  We were instructed to get settled and then head to the Vincaffe where we would have lunch waiting.  To us 'getting settled' meant picking a bed, finding a clean shirt to wear, washing our faces, and lying down for a few minutes.  Lunch was good, it was buffet style with some meats, polenta greenbean carrot wedges, amazing bean soup, and of course, wine.  We sat with our new Italian professor who was kind of difficult to communicate with bc our italian/her english were not that great but she is very very nice and we can tell she wants us to learn.  After lunch we went home and crashed for a couple hours.  I concked out the minute my head hit the pillow and I didn't wake up until my alarm went off.  We decided that we should go to the supermarket near the duomo and maybe get some dinner which turned out to be an awesome idea.  We went and bought some shampoo at the supermarket and then went to a nice pizzeria.  My pizza had 3 types of cheeses and slices of eggplant! The crust was the best part, very thin and crispy, and slightly salty on the bottom.  Now I'm at home and obviously got signed onto the wireless.  It is very fast and should support Skype or other video chat if you're interested! 

Cliff Hanger:  Tomorrow we will do some necessary paperwork at Centro Studi; A tour of the city with our new professors; Dinner at Zepplin, the restraunt where we will do our cooking class!

Thanks for reading!  KATY