a stroke of bad luck

Well, apparently the legend in my last post was right about if you touch the dog on St. Charles bridge you will get bad luck. This weekend I had my Blackberry, italian phone, and new camera stolen. Stupid pickpocketers. Luckily I brought my iPhone with me to Rome, so I do have some form of communication. If you're trying to reach me, either iMessage (if you have an iphone) or whatsapp my normal American phone. It will come through if I have wifi, so if I don't answer right away that's why. I'm only going to be bringing it to class with me and using it at my house to prevent it from getting stolen too. I'm going to go buy a new italian prepaid phone tomorrow. Sweeeet.

BUT ANYWAY,
This weekend I had some of my friends from Clemson in town. I was their tour guide for the weekend, which was fun because I got to go see all the sights again. We went to Piazza Navona, Campo dei Fiori, Argentina, Piazza Venezia, the Roman Forum, Paletine Hill, the Colosseum, the Trevi Fountain, the Spanish Steps, the Pantheon, the Vatican, and Trastevere. I also took them out at night to Shari Vari (a club that looks like a cave), Testaccio (an area with a 2 blocks of bars and clubs), and Babel (a club by my apartment). It was a long, exhausting weekend. I'd love to share pictures of it but like I said, my camera was stolen (rough). I'm planning on trying to find somewhere to buy a cheap camera this week, because I refuse to be in Rome for a semester with no camera.

This week I'm spending catching up on some school work in preparation of midterms next week (my first tests). Then this weekend we're heading to Bomarzo with our program on Friday and Christina and I are going skydiving on Saturday (EEEEK) in Le Marche, which is in the top five places to skydive in the world. I'm so excited :)

Le Marche!