Caffe Corretto

Today is Friday and that means NO CLASS! I've never not had class on Friday and it is very exciting! I got to sleep really late and then watched an episode of Jersey Shore while I ate some Frosted Flakes. Kim and I also tried to clean our room. This afternoon Maria and I wanted to go practice taking pictures since we have our first photography field study on Monday and neither of us really know how to work our cameras. Kim and Will came to and we started off near Isola Tiberina. I finally got to see the turtle fountain. I actually didn't know we were near it but we saw this cute fountain and before I even noticed the turtles, it looked really familiar to me. I remember when I was 7 Papa telling me and Daisy that we were going to go see a turtle fountain that day. After that we just walked around Trastevere and got some amazing pizza followed by some amazing gelato. I may have actually lost count with the gelato counter already. Oops.

Yesterday, was another easy day. Because of my internship, I dropped the Catholic Church class and therefore didn't have any class until 4:30. Sonia made lunch for me and another ISC came over. We ate artichokes which are a huge staple here in Rome. Today when walking around we saw several restaurants get huge deliveries of artichokes. My pizza today was mozzarella and artichoke hearts. Last night a big group of us went to a Jazz club at the top of the Spanish steps. It was 8 of us from our Italian class and it was so much fun! They added on 5 euro per person to the bill though for the music. It was annoying because they didn't tell us before that there was a music charge and I don't even like Jazz. Oh well, the night was definitely more than 5 euros of fun. After the jazz we headed for Trastevere, but Kim and I forgot to get off the bus because Sonia and Caroline got on at the same time and we accidentally went all the way home.

One funny thing I saw today was a Carabiniere drinking on the job. He was standing next to his car with a to go espresso and then he snuck out a small flask and made it "un caffe corretto!" The Italian police are very strange. There are the Carabinieri, the Polizia, and the Guardia di Finanza.  The Carabinieri are the scariest because they will walk around carrying automatic weapons and then just chill in the squares. They are the most stylish though. The Guardia di Finanza are fun to watch though because they basically patrol touristy areas and make the illegal street vendors scatter.