When I woke up, it was 2:50pm. I’ve never slept in that late in my entire life. I messed around on the computer for an hour, then finally got out of bed at 4pm to go to the bathroom and eat. The rest of the day I uploaded pictures to facebook and read Machiavelli. We tried to do dishes after lunch, but we don’t get hot water long enough to fill the sink with more than an inch of water, which is obviously not enough to wash anything. Then we discovered our sink leaks! Another thing that doesn’t function in our apartment! It took them a week to get our internet to work, we have no hot water, we have no water pressure in the shower, our windows won’t close to block out the sun/noise/mosquitoes, only one stove burner even turns on, and when it does, it turns off as soon as we let go of the button, and now our sink leaks. At least our toilet and fridge work, and we have electricity. Also, we can sleep in our beds, but I feel like they may have bed bugs. And anytime we try to tell Accent about these problems to get them fixed, they assume we’re being petty Americans and complaining because things are not up to American standards, but what they don't understand is that things that are essential to living that should work don't. They’re completely unhelpful and even mean and rude when they talk to us, and they don’t seem to understand that we literally cannot cook a meal in our apartment and have to mooch of the boys, which is really annoying for everyone. Anyway, we made dinner around 9pm, and I got to eat my black olives and it was delicious! Then I read more Machiavelli and went to bed.
Michigan State University: Classical Republicanism in Rome and Florence, Italy, Summer, 2011
