There was quite the birthday week last week: six birthdays in five days...mine included! The big Two-One is not as exciting in Italy as it usually is the in the states though. It was also a tough weekend because it was right before finals week.
Friday night, Will invited us all over to his homestay and his host-mom, Esa, cooked us all a fancy dinner. It was amazingly delicious. We all felt very sophisticated having such a grown-up dinner party. Real grown-ups don't call themselves grown-ups through, and because of that I know we are all still safe from adulthood for a little while longer.
A majority of Saturday was sadly spent writing my politics paper. Sonia did bake us a cake though. It was my roommate, Caroline's birthday on Sunday so we bridged the gap on Saturday night. Saturday afternoon, Jordan's parents invited us to a BBQ. They had rented an apartment for a week and had a great patio and a grill. It was actually Jordan's dad's birthday too. Not twenty-one though. After the BBQ (fantastic burgers and cous cous, btw), we all went to the Centrale Montemartini museum in Testaccio because it was free museum night until 2 AM. It is the Capitoline museum's overflow space and is in an abandoned power plant from the early 1900s, so there is a great contrast between ancient sculpture and industrial machinery. We were supposed to birthday it up afterwards, but we all got pretty sleepy. We ended up going back to Jillian's apartment and watching Young Frankenstein. I fell asleep almost immediately.
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