Update since Jan 27th

MORE CALCIO PICTURES!!!
ROMA WONNN!!!!!!! YAYYYY!!!!!!!!


Well! Last week...was not really that exciting, but still fun none-the-less since I'm in Romaaaaa. Let's see...Since I last updated this I've been to una partita di calcio (soccer game) - Roma vs. Milan - which was ... AMAZING - here are a couple pictures that I stole from people because my camera battery keeps dying (more on that later..)

flares erupting in the crowd - they make the LOUDEST bang i don't know how the players are used to it haha
where we sat!! pretty fantastic, eh?!

so the soccer game was pretty awesome...in other news, Heather and I booked our Spring Break trip to.....drum roll please.....the canary islands!!! wahoo!!!! 6 nights at an all-inclusive resort that is ON it's own private beach for under $1000 each....SO excited...let's see what else...Carnevale in Venice is February 16th-18th with Heather, Lindsey, Rada and Jamie (all really great girls!!!) OH and I had my first sushi experience here! Actually not real sushi - avocado rolls so they're pretty hard to screw up - anyways, it's right down the street from my apartment and it was really good! Heather's a picky eater and she tried an avocado roll and really liked it! So that's good - I have a sushi friend...This past Friday night we went out to dinner at a restaurant called Le Fate down the street from our apartment and thought it was going to be great! but it ended up being kind of disappointing. We saw this thing on the menu called "Little Green Gnocchi with Speck" so we were idiots and didn't ask what Speck is and just got it figuring it sounded good (it said like spinach and cheese and stuff) so when we got it apparently speck is ham or spam or something I don't know...so it was just chunks of "speck" in the sauce so I could eat just the gnocchi but it tasted a lot like hot dogs in mac and cheese - which was definitely not worth 10 euro...Other than that though, we had a nice bottle of wine and chatted all night so it was good - just the food was not so good, and a bit expensive. After dinner we went to our friend Jon and Scott's apartment and hung out with them and chatted all night. The next night Kalli, Katie and Laura and I went to Good Caffe by JCU and chatted and stuff and then went to a bar with these really nice guys we met - one of them (Davide) owns a hotel in Calabria (the south of Italy). It was his Dad's and he's going to school right now in Rome to study tourism so that he can take over for his Dad. He said if we ever want to come visit we can stay at the hotel which is on the beach - near the beach? I don't remember...but there was beach involved..so that's pretty awesome. I also mentioned that I love soccer and he does too so he's going to take me to the next few Roma games there are hopefully - it's nice to have someone there who speaks Italian and can help you learn the songs - because I REALLY want to learn the songs....there's one that's like ROMMMA ROMMMA ROMAAAAAAAAAA something in italian......da dade doooo - anyways - the whole night we were out with them I was talking with Davide and I was trying my best to speak in Italian and he was trying his best to speak in English so it worked out pretty well! Here's a picture of me and Laura before we went out last night while we were still at the apartment (I'm wearing my new purple coat that I love and got for 20 euro....!)
(I SWEAR I will try to figure out how to turn the pictures the right way....stupid blogger)

Well, that's all for now! I'm doing great and I actually have a test this coming week (booooo) so I'm going to go read for that! Happy Superbowl everyone! If I want to watch it I have to go to a caffe or pub or whatever at 12:15 AM so we'll see if that actually happens...!!! All my love!!!