Sometimes I Miss Places

So.... I was starting to get a bit sick of Rome, but then I realized it's because I haven't been out in a few days. Work has pretty much been taking over EVERYTHING so I will be scaling down on classes a bit. Most likely I will continue to take the class but either audit it or take it pass fail, hopefully that will decrease the stress a bit, but most likely not too much knowing me. We've been working pretty hard on our projects, ours is coming out pretty good, concise and clear. So the weirdest part of my day... I don't know if I've said this yet but our CRP profesor isn't here yet because of visa problems (she's originally from India so had other problems than us and and Italian beurocracy is the slowest thing EVER) so today we had a class over skype. Very strange, very strange indeed; the sound comes from one place, the video another and neither are really connected. So there's that. Right now my internet is cutting out every 2 min which is making it really hard to work and find the map that I need to find for my project, oh well, so instead I'm spending my time making an apples to apples planners edition: stay tuned copies will be out soon (I know all of you are anxiously awaiting, almost as much as you are waiting for the launch of KFTP) So that's pretty much what's going on today. Mind is taken up by who owns the city and how to phrase it, but I think I've done a good enough job and I'll do it tomorow, for tonight sleep. So maybe I'll try to do a picture a day? Some days I don't take any but here is some backlog

For More...

I'll keep posting, but it's pretty hard to post all of them... SO if you would like to see more go to flickr.com and search for me (I made it nice and easy, my username is "romansdo")

Why won't the slideshow function work?

Well until then...

Drumrole Please....

I told you there would be a surprise......

THE PICTURES ARE COMING, THE PICTURES ARE COMING!
(my friend has a card reader, so here are a select few so you can understand what life in
in Rome is like)

Good times, Good times...

For all those of you who have been hanging onto my every word (ahem.. mom and dad) I bet you missed my incoherent ramblings... well fear not for I am back. It's been quite a long day and I really should just sleep, but I still have a bit more work to do... ok maybe a fair amount of work left to do. I start to realize more and more how crazy I am. After a pretty long night last night (what did I even do... oh right!) Well I spent most of yesterday being a good little Jewish girl and cooking dinner (mom I finally made that recipe you suggested, you were right it was good. I then went to services and came home and Oren, Ale, Josh and I had shabbat dinner. By the way stay tuned for a Libby and Oren do things together blog.... it will consist mostly of pictures of both of us scowling at each other (jokingly, of course). So then we came back to the apartment and played some card games.... still looking for someone who can beat me at egyption ratscrew... or the song game... I finally went to sleep at around 3... only to wake up at around 9 to go to the market. Boarded the bus, and met up with one of our ta's who took us around. I found okra! Oohh and a pomela (oh yes everyone who i cook for is gonna be SUPER happy (muah hahahahaha)) . Came back here to get some work done. My partner has been sick for a few days so I'm stressing a bit, and ppl are telling me I'm working too much (I think it's their nice way of saying that my work is pretty bad and I really shouldn't continue to do it, but oh well). We went out to dinner tonight, I don't think the other ppl I went w/ liked it... but I thought it was really good pizza, and I liked the neighborhood, a bit calmer (well at least the street that it was on was). The pizza was in a shape of a ghost... yeah... Anywhose now I'm home and working

I have a surprise coming soon so stay tuned...

Grrrr

I feel pissed off and ripped off. So as to the suggestion of the program leaders I bought a train pass as I was told "it will be the cheapest way of getting around...." WRONG! NOT ONLY do you have to buy the $400 rail pass, but you also have to pay around well $20-$40 just for a reservation... making it cheaper for me to just forget that I ever bought it and fly.

Notes and Writings

If anyone is ever interested in reading any of the actual notes or writings which I am working on just comment and I will post them, I realize that mostly family is reading this and someone might be interested at some point, or maybe not I won't be offended either way I just thought I would give the option...