The Good and the Bad

1/26/15

Day 10

The travel is starting. This weekend, no one will be in our apartment and we've been booking all our adventures for the rest of the semester. I think this weekend I'll be in Rome, next weekend in Venice, and then after a week of finals, in Spain and Morocco for Spring break! 

I have unfortunately discovered what I would consider to be my greatest weakness: I am really, really bad at real life. Like I tried to make tortellini for dinner and had to consult my roommate on whether to put the pasta in before or after the water starts to boil. (I did successfully end up putting this into my stomach though)

But more importantly, I am entirely incapable of doing anything remotely related to planning, scheduling, and booking travel arrangements. It just drains me of all my energy and I get really tired and grumpy. I don't understand how people can travel Europe alone! 

In other news, I tried to go the Galleria dell'Accademia today and turns out it's closed on Mondays which (not surprisingly) also happens to be my day I have time to go. But it was ok because we went to the library instead (the Biblioteca delle Oblate) and it was a million times more fun than it sounds. Apparently it used to be a convent and so the layout and architecture are aesthetically pleasing. But the real reason (besides studying of course) to visit the Biblioteca delle Oblate is for the view.

From the second floor, you can access an open outdoor area where many Italians were working, despite the cold weather, against the backdrop of the Duomo. Needless to say, it was kind of impressive, from a tourist's point of view. 

I also went grocery shopping (I have to go a lot more here because there aren't preservatives in the food and it goes bad faster) and was super psyched to find that chicken nuggets were 50% off. Well, I'm American. So I bought 3 packs of them. :) 

And then ended with my roommate drinking an entire bottle of wine (because she promised she'd be back to refill her bottle tomorrow) and then performing NSYNC for us.