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As Grant, Katie, Diego and Lainie can attest to, we have a really great little apartment in an awesome neighborhood of Rome. It's clean, modern, has tall ceilings, and its own little ancient Roman doorman. Our neighborhood also boasts two supermarkets, numerous bread and cheese shops, and the nicest butcher in the world, and all of this within walking distance. In short, we really, really love our place.
So, you can imagine our disappointment when last week our landlady told us that at the end of our contract in March she will be selling the apartment! This isn't only unfortunate for the fact that our particular place is fabulous, but moving is such a pain in the butt! To her credit, she has offered the help of a friend, some sort of housing agent, (we aren't clear on the details of his expertise) to help us find a new place. Our impending doom is still a few months off, but we are bitterly awaiting the arrival of this horrible day.
We attribute this disaster to a taco night we hosted two weekends back. All of our friends ranted and raved about how they loved our place. They totally jinxed us!
Oh well. We are off tomorrow to forget our worries for six blissful days in the world's most forgiving city. See you soon!
Thank you guys so much for the posts, we know we have been really lazy about posting, but it takes more effort when you don't have internet at home!!
Not much new going on, still just working and getting totally stoked for our holiday this Thursday! We are meeting my baby brother Isaac in Amsterdam (he's coming from Norway), and then we are dragging him back to Rome with us! Finally, after more than one year we get to see our first family member in the flesh!
Let me feed you one funny anecdote from this past week to keep your hunger satisfied:
One of my students invited me to an office lunch party for pizza. One of the boys comes to Rome every week from Naples, and he brought with him some Buffalo Mozzarella from a very famous cheese maker. It was delicious, and while we were all munching away one of the men asked me, "Come si dice in Inglese, buffalo?" (How do you say Buffalo in English?) The spelling is the same, but the Italian pronunciation is booofalo.
So, as soon as I said the correct pronunciation for them, there was a chorus of male voices all at once that said, "Buffalo Bill!" Very cute coming from grown Air Force men.
In some unrelated, but interesting news, Spike Lee was at the Abbey Pub last night while Chuck was bartending!
Don't worry, lots of pics to come from Amsterdam!
Three words: We are working!
You can tell it's September, because we have new students coming in like crazy and our hours at the school are rising steadily! It's (finally) starting to cool down a bit here, and we are getting into a nice rhythm of work again, which is definitely a good thing.
Besides that there isn't much to report. This weekend marks the annual "Notte Bianca" or "White Night" in Rome. It's a bit of an odd celebration, where the center of the city is lit up by artificial lights and the shops and museums and pubs and everything else stays open until the natural light of day comes upon us. Last year we didn't experience White Night because we were in Zagarolo being lame, but we've heard it's a really good time, so you can expect some reports on it after the weekend!
We are also planning a trip to The Netherlands for the end of the month in order to see a concert. We were actually able to work out an exchange with another young couple who lives there, so we will go and stay with them for 5 days for free, and then in mid October they'll come stay with us for 6 days to repay the favor! How cool is that? Free accommodation in the center of the city, plus they have already been helping us with info on Amsterdam and what things we should see, etc.
That's all for now! Keep posting on the message board, we miss you guys!
Greetings, friends and family! We made it (of course not easily), and we have great stories to tell. We have been having a wonderful time here so far, even if the weather is a bit drab and rainy. Food is awesome, people all speak perfect English and are very friendly and helpful, and we have been doing all of the fun touristy stuff that Amsterdam has to offer.
