Day 3: Sunday
This morning I woke up to the sounds of the market outside on the street. When Elli and I woke up, we immediately looked out the window, but were too aggressive with the curtain apparently, and the rod toppled down onto our heads. After we overcame that obstacle, we looked out the balcony and there was literally market in every direction.
This morning I woke up to the sounds of the market outside on the street. When Elli and I woke up, we immediately looked out the window, but were too aggressive with the curtain apparently, and the rod toppled down onto our heads. After we overcame that obstacle, we looked out the balcony and there was literally market in every direction.

We immediately got dressed and ate breakfast (special K and honey pops things) and got ready to go down to the market with Kari. It was literally huge. It never ended. We walked around for at least two hours completely overwhelmed by the market's never-ending tents full of the most random things imaginable. Shoes, antiques, jewelry, power tools, statues, children's toys, even old school microscopes. I bought some magnets for the apartment for 5 euro, a necklace for 10, and three scarves for 24 (I thought I had bought two but oh well, they’re cute!). After a while we got too hot and overwhelmed and hungry, so we came back to the apartment and made some eggs for lunch, since it’s literally all we have to eat because the grocery stores were closed. Inspired by our egg lunch, Elli and I decided to set out to find a grocery store, but the one we found was closed and the other mysteriously did not exist. But we had a nice walk up to the river and took pictures and had some gelato. When we came back I decided perhaps it was time to start doing my homework, so I read a couple pages immediately fell asleep. I read for about another hour after I woke, and then it was time for our meeting with Professor Tobin Craig. Apparently he's never had a cell phone before, so he was telling us about how he accidentally hung up on his wife when she called because she told him to push the button with the phone, but all he saw was a bracket-looking thing, and he pressed the red one, which apparently is the hang up button. We got a few essentials out of the way, then were gladly dismissed because we were starving. Elli, Joe, Kari, David, Dylan, and I went out for dinner at a place Elli and I saw earlier down by the river. I had fettuccine with cheese sauce and zucchini. We decided not to go out tonight since I’m already tired and I need to get a little bit more reading done still. We have to go to the Accent center tomorrow morning at 10, where we’ll have orientation all day. We also need to FINALLY buy groceries, find the phone store, and go to the train station. Tomorrow shall be a busy day, so it’s time to rest up.
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Tiber with St Peter's |