I officially survived my first week of school at AUR and have been here for about 12 days and am still convinced I'm living in a dream. Since I only had one class, Gabby and I went on an adventure down in the city center because there was not a cloud in the sky and we felt like being touristy. We went to Capitoline Hill, the Pantheon and then were extremely hungry so we decided to try to get some dinner.
There was a Chinese restaurant near by that we had remembered seeing a cheap menu outside and figured since it was Chinese New Year week... why not. It was only 5:45 so we were on track for the early bird special, until we walked up to the restaurant only to realize they don't open till 6. So we killed 10 minutes, then walked back as we saw a group of 4 Chinese guys walk in. We followed, and while they were placed at a nice table complete with napkins, a rose and a candle... we were put in a corner table with no candle, no rose, and no napkins. They told us there was no option for drinks other than beer, wine, coke or bottled water, so we picked water and each ordered Won Ton soup and chicken with bamboo shoots and shrimp. Sounds promising right? Nope. We decided to grab the napkins from the table next to us, then 5 minutes later a group of 3 came in, two of which were nuns the other a priest and they sat at the table we took the napkins from. Yup, we took napkins from nuns. It was also strange because the nun's and priest were asian, as well as the help staff, and all of them spoke Italian. It is just an interesting feeling to look around at a room where other than a young British couple at another table, we were the only ones who were white, and all the Asians were speaking Italian. Then everyone else in the place got there food long before use (despite the nuns coming in after we ordered) and the servings were small and we got a little scared the chicken wasn't cooked. We ate all that we would touch, and were still left with our stomachs feeling that they were eating themselves.
To say the least we came home and ate all the food we had that was going to spoil while we were in Florence and were left giggling about our lives the whole way home on the tram. Anyways, 8:30 a.m. bus to Florence! I'll update when I'm back.
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