The Rant

Its finally cooled down temp wise, this week will be btw 34 and 36 degrees Celsius.
last night i thought it was sunday but it was really saturday so this morning i woke up at six thirty ready to go meet for class then I found out it was sunday so i ate breakfast and went back to bed. I will probably go out today. Im still looking for the hotel mom will be staying in when she gets here. I went to look for it yesterday, it doesn't seem like it would be hard to find, but I went around and around and couldn't find it, so today i'm really going to look hard for it. I pry just passed by it over and over yesterday without realizing. The blocks here are just one long building until the end of the block. Walls inside divide each business but they aren't separated per establishment. Plus, street signs don't stand on their own little pole--they're on the side of the building and not always in the same place. And its not like their at eye level on the buildings, nooo their up their. your whole head has to go back to see it. Can't even pronounce most of them so you have to remember what they look like as you try and find where your supposed to go.
Also, i don't think i can go another day eating anything that has to do with or looks like pasta...or pizza.

The mosquitos here don't make a buzzing noise so you don't know when they're coming for you. You just happen to notice one out of the corner of your eye trying to get you. You try to get it, but you don't know where it is because it doesn't buzz. Last night, there was one trying to eat me and i finally spotted it on my towel and when i went to smack it all quite like it must have known i was coming because it flew away. I couldn't hear it or find it so i tried to sleep under my covers but then i couldn't breathe.
Mosquitos here are called tiger mosquitos because they have stripes. There's a product you can buy at the grocery store called VAPE ("vapay" when pronounced in IT). If you want to leave your windows open at night you can hang VAPE in your room and the mosquitos will die if they try to come in. It makes me wonder though, how safe it really is to breath.. all night long.
However, my roommates and i have decided never to open our room windows so no type of bug can come in.

On another note: You know those tourist books that tell you not to wear this or that when you go to another country? Who do they think they are, they don't know. When you get to your destination you find its more or less opposite to what the book says anyway. And conservative clothing?? ya, the older women/men wear conservo clothing but not the young ones!! Italian (young) women dress more scandalously here than the tourists. Well, I guess you learn as you go.

"Don't forget to bring a coat/sweater incase it's gets cold...." This is so true when you're going to PORTLAND in the summer time. Other wise it really doesn't seem to apply in FLORENCE....Until you get to your apartment with the arctic chill of AC blowing all day until 11pm when it shuts off and your left to suffer all night in the muggy air--only because a week before, flat mates (except for you) on every floor complained about how cold it was at night; so the maintenance guy comes to adjust when it comes on or goes off.
And there's no on or off button either. so when you come back to the apartment after walking around with your class forever and are finally on your off time, you are so glad the AC is on. Then later, after an hour or so has given you time to cool off and now you have goose-bumps, there's no way to turn off or down the AC. The only choice is to go back out in the hot humid heat to warm back up.

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