Wednesday January 11th
Tonight Arcadia treated all of the Arcadia students in Perugia to dinner at the La Rosetta hotel. Probably the best meal I’ve had yet; a mushroom lasagna dish, turkey, and tiara misu for desert (possibly the most delicious desert I’ve ever had). At the Dinner people from Arcadia gave us some tips about living in Perugia. We were told it’s a crime in Perugia to use your heat at night, plagiarism is really bad, and we were sternly told not to go to Turkey because of the prevalence of Bird flu. Fortunately, Mike actually has bird flu medication he brought from home in case we contract the disease so I’m not concerned. At night we went out for a little bit with these girls who live right next to us and their apartment window is about 10 feet away from our. They hollered over to us in broken English and asked if we wanted to go out with them, we were pretty excited and surprised because they had told us the first night that the last Americans were annoying and they weren’t big fans of American guys. But we accepted their offer and eventually realized there not even Italian but rather from Belgium. We were a little disappointed and I don’t think we even saw them again once we arrived at our destination. We’ll see how it unfolds. I decided to buy my first authentic italian article of clothing, a nice soft grey sweater. It was originally 90 euro but it was 1/2 off and also since delta lost my luggage for a couple days they pay for half of my purchases. So a 90 euro sweater for 20 euro, im a legit shopper.