Baby, it's cold outside..

SO this week in Rome is our first week that we haven't had perfect weather. And by that, I mean record lows and rain. It is AWFUL weather here right now. I thought Atlanta couldn't function in the rain - Rome is even worse. All the buses are 30-45 minute waits, the traffic is awful, and the worst part is I found out there's a hole in the sole of my boot which makes walking around in the rain REALLY comfortable (jokes). It's really helping out with me being sick and all.

This week I've been a complete bum. I haven't been able to do anything because of my sinus infection, so I haven't gone to any classes except Statistics last night and Art History today. I also had to call out of work Monday night. I figure I better get 100% better now, or else I'll end up sick this entire semester. It's been awful, but the Zpack the doctor gave me is slowly helping. I'm really sensitive to medicine and pretty much anything stronger than Advil knocks me out for 3-4 hours, so I've been sleeping all day and night. My body needed it though, so it's nice to rest.

I was able to catch up on some of my school work though since I've just been hanging out around the apartment. It feels like it's just a vacation here, so getting my mind in work mode has been difficult. While everyone was out last night and the apartment was quiet I caught up on some of the work I had been slacking on. It's hard getting myself motivated here because the classes are so much easier than Clemson classes. Clemson had it's first hard week of the semester this week, and I've barely even had any homework... which is definitely a nice change. I'm just ready to be able to use the free time I have from not having to study as much to go explore Rome more.

Next stop, Carnivale!

We were also able to book some of our trips during our down time! I went ahead and booked my Bus2alps trips and Venice. We're going to Venice next weekend for Carnivale. It's kind of like Mardi Gras, but italian style! I'm excited to see that since it's a festival and more culturious (thanks Clemson haha) than just visiting the city and taking tours of monuments. It'll be nice since I've already seen Venice how it is normally, so now I can see it during a festival! The festival is the biggest carnivale in all of Europe, so I definitey did not want to miss it while I was here and so close. It was started originally to celebrate that all classes are equal. Everyone wears masks to hide their social class so everyone can intermingle. We're getting masks to celebrate too! The weekend after that Christina and I are going to Prague with Bus2Alps. I'm SO excited because I've heard so much about how amazing Prague is (thanks David). Then we also booked our spring break trip with Bus2Alps where we'll be going to London, Paris, and Amsterdam. Some of my friends are going to Dublin for the first weekend before the trip starts, but I'm going to visit Laura in Brussels with Maya, one of my friends I've made here on our program. And finally we went ahead and booked our Munich Springfest trip for in April. This is going to be our last out of the country trip for the semester. I'm just SO EXCITED to start traveling and get well so I can continue seeing places in Rome!

Well I'm off to sleep (again) then trying to find a Roma scarf for the game on Saturday. It's supposed to be 29 degrees, AHHHH I'M GOING TO FREEZE!!