I don't wanna come home...maybe if I don't write this 8-10page paper I won't hafta.  Oh well....whatever.  I am offically done with 4 finals.  All i have left is a paper (boo) and a final thursday night.  So tonight I will go and crank out a few pages on the post war boom on Europe after WWII.  Yeah, i know its a thriller..  Anyway, nothing exciting to report on.  I'm gonna go home and do some homework soon and then eat.  Eating is good.  ciao

Apparently people think I am German now.  Not that I mind, because I like the German people.  They're friendly and are just all over the place.  First at the spa, someone was chatting with me in German, Monday night, as we were waiting for the night bus, some Italians drove by yelling TEDESCA! (Italian for German), and then yesterday, as I was getting some gelato, the chick there asked me speakenzie duetch?  Ok, I know I spelt in wrong, but you still get the drift right?  Anyway, I just thought that was amusing. 

Anyway, I did have another reason for posting this "blog"....any requests I can bring back to you guys from Italia?  It can't be anything big or bulky, (unless you want vino or lemoncello).  But, yeah....if there is something you've always wanted to try from Italy, and you can't get it in the states, lemme know and I'll see what I can do for you.  Does anyone need more Sole soap??

Ok, well I guess that's it.  Happy Liberation (it was yesterday, April 25). 

Ciao

Danielle

Ciao...so, I just got to school to work on my homework for tomorrow.  I was feeling lazy and thought, what the heck, I'll wait for the bus.  Luckly the 23 came like literally 30 seconds after I got at the bus stop...nice!  I thought to myself.  A couple stops down, some crazy ugly guy with a HuGE! wart on the left side of his nose got on the bus with like 6 or 7 bags, some of them grocery bags, other duffle bags.  Whatever, I thought to my self, its still not super crowded like I was expecting...of course, the dumbass that I am said that way to early!  By the time we got to Piazza Risorgemento, about 25 people got on.  And then we got to the stop at the road that takes you straight onto St. Peters Square (Via Concilizione..sp) and seriously, like 40 people got on....then we got to the next big stop, and at least 30 more people got on!!!  By this time, I was pretty much jammed into the the handcap stall of the bus with ugly guys groceries and other misc. bags, and some street vendor with his paper clips.  When this mass of people keep trying to pile into an already full bus, somebody accidentantly kicked one of his bags and asked he to move some of them.  He got super pissed at started yelling that they were for his kids....and since I am still jammed in this corner surrounded by bags and the vendor guy with his folded up display of whatever, the ugly man with all the bags leans over and starts yelling at this woman.  And let me tell you, ugly guy smelled bad too!  *gag*  Issh!  And I am not making this up, he kept yelling about how all of this is for his kids, and then  he was the one doing the most damage to the bags because he would pick them up (his bags, not his kids...his kids weren't there...unless they were in one of the duffle bags, but I doubt it) and throw it back on the ground!  He was such a lunatic!!  Then mr. vendor guy kept telling ugly and smelly guy that that was enough, sit down, etc. etc.  Of course, by the time everything had settled down, prolly about 40 more people had gotten on the bus, and I didn't think I was gonna make it out alive!  So I decided to get out a few stops earlier (still the same walking distance).  The only problem was how to get the hell off of that bus!  Anyway, I excused myself, and people were nice enough to help me out the door, by literally shoving me out the door....because that was the only way to get off!  As I was attempting to get off, about 10 to 15 more people were attempting to get on.  Good Lord, I have never seen that many people try to fit on one damn bus!  You think someone would use some common sense and say, "wow!  that's a lot of people on that bus, why don't I wait for another."  But no....let's all cram on a bus that only holds x-amount of people.  I bet there were at least 150 on that bus.  For those of you who have experienced a busy metro, it was worse than that.  At least there are metro cops to control those getting on the metro, but no one was here to control how many were getting on the bus....WOW!  Anyway, must mean the tourists have arrived for the season.  I think I'll be doing a lot more walking from now on. 

Ok, I best get working on a pesky thing called homework. 

Love

Danielle

Ciao...so, I just got to school to work on my homework for tomorrow.  I was feeling lazy and thought, what the heck, I'll wait for the bus.  Luckly the 23 came like literally 30 seconds after I got at the bus stop...nice!  I thought to myself.  A couple stops down, some crazy ugly guy with a HuGE! wart on the left side of his nose got on the bus with like 6 or 7 bags, some of them grocery bags, other duffle bags.  Whatever, I thought to my self, its still not super crowded like I was expecting...of course, the dumbass that I am said that way to early!  By the time we got to Piazza Risorgemento, about 25 people got on.  And then we got to the stop at the road that takes you straight onto St. Peters Square (Via Concilizione..sp) and seriously, like 40 people got on....then we got to the next big stop, and at least 30 more people got on!!!  By this time, I was pretty much jammed into the the handcap stall of the bus with ugly guys groceries and other misc. bags, and some street vendor with his paper clips.  When this mass of people keep trying to pile into an already full bus, somebody accidentantly kicked one of his bags and asked he to move some of them.  He got super pissed at started yelling that they were for his kids....and since I am still jammed in this corner surrounded by bags and the vendor guy with his folded up display of whatever, the ugly man with all the bags leans over and starts yelling at this woman.  And let me tell you, ugly guy smelled bad too!  *gag*  Issh!  And I am not making this up, he kept yelling about how all of this is for his kids, and then  he was the one doing the most damage to the bags because he would pick them up (his bags, not his kids...his kids weren't there...unless they were in one of the duffle bags, but I doubt it) and throw it back on the ground!  He was such a lunatic!!  Then mr. vendor guy kept telling ugly and smelly guy that that was enough, sit down, etc. etc.  Of course, by the time everything had settled down, prolly about 40 more people had gotten on the bus, and I didn't think I was gonna make it out alive!  So I decided to get out a few stops earlier (still the same walking distance).  The only problem was how to get the hell off of that bus!  Anyway, I excused myself, and people were nice enough to help me out the door, by literally shoving me out the door....because that was the only way to get off!  As I was attempting to get off, about 10 to 15 more people were attempting to get on.  Good Lord, I have never seen that many people try to fit on one damn bus!  You think someone would use some common sense and say, "wow!  that's a lot of people on that bus, why don't I wait for another."  But no....let's all cram on a bus that only holds x-amount of people.  I bet there were at least 150 on that bus.  For those of you who have experienced a busy metro, it was worse than that.  At least there are metro cops to control those getting on the metro, but no one was here to control how many were getting on the bus....WOW!  Anyway, must mean the tourists have arrived for the season.  I think I'll be doing a lot more walking from now on. 

Ok, I best get working on a pesky thing called homework. 

Love

Danielle

Hello everyone!  I am now procrastinating on my 10page paper due on Monday.  Dont worry, I at least have most of the resources I need, now it's just to pull a quote here, and a qoute there and reword a few sentences so I don't get blamed for plagarizism.  Man, you just try to copy and paste these days, and they threaten to fail you....what a shame!  Anyway, I walked to school today and it was a balmy 20 maybe even closer to 25 degrees in the sun!  I like to pretend that I'm Italian and it's still cold outside so I wore a sweater today...and then walked to school....cause there is no point in taking the busses anymore because the traffic is so heavy.  The other night it took me 30-40 minutes to get home on the 23 bus, and then another 45 minutes to an hour at the grocery store...and I only bought 5 items!  So it goes.  Anyway, I thought I had something else exciting or at least something interesting to say...but apparently not.  Well, I better go do some homework anyway....stupid homework! 

Love
Danielle