Final Tally: Taxi=8 Nuns=7

Today actually started out...one could say with last night.

I went to dinner with Nikki and Marco. After getting stuck on their street with no way to call them or find out their number (of course I forgot it already). My phone has decided that it no longer wishes to actually work. It will not connect for phone calls unless it is plugged into a wall. What kind of crappy phone did PicCell give me?? I'm calling them today for a new phone!
So last night at dinner Nikki and Marco are telling me the times of arrivals for the new girls for the July session. P.S. there are 11 new girls coming (so there will be 14 of us for this session). And all eleven of the girls are coming on Tuesday. the schedule was insane. One person could not possible do it. Because girls were coming into the train station and the airport at times far too close to each other. So Marco was telling me how he is picking up the girls from the airport. Well I decided that I would go with him, because two of the girls are goign to be my new roommates. So why not just help him out and meet them at the airport. And that is when I decided my fate for today. Haha :]
Today started off bright and shiny at 7:00 for me, which came far too early after a phone conversation with John after he got off work (6:00pm for him, 1:00am for me). (Don't worry parents, he called me...not another phone call on my already killer, I'm sure, phone bill). So anyways, 7:00am, right. I woke up and got ready then met Marco to find a taxi to take to the airport. While waiting for the taxi we read the newspaper. And by we I mean I stumbled through it and asked him what certain words meant before being able to understand the whole article. But I think I did pretty well actually and Marco said he was impressed with my comprehension. So we get a taxi and make our way to the airport where we pick up the first girl Jen, and took her back to the San Gallo Campus to get her housing assignment and keys. After showing her to her apartment, Marco and I head back to the airport to pick up another girl. this one's name is Dawn and her plane was an hour late. Which really wasn't a problem for us, we mostly just felt bad for her. But when she finally got off her plane we took her to the campus for all the information. By this time we hear the news that three of the girls who were supposed to come into the train station at 13:00 never showed up (and the two girls who's train got in at 13:45 have already gotten their keys and made it to the apartment), so up to the train station we go to check things out. Sure enough two trains coming from Roma Termini come and go and no sight of three semi-lost American girls. Marco and I leave Lealle at the station because if not we are going to be late picking up the third girl from the airport, Adriana. As we wait for her plane to land we get a call from Jessica saying that she found three girls sitting outside of the apartment building looking exhausted, semi-lost and saying they were with Abroadco. Crazy... Marco tells Jessica to take the girls up to the San Gallo Campus and we will meet them there when we get Adriana. So now we feel a little better, the girls were found, they did make it into the station. But how/why did they leave the station without finding someone with Abroadco and how did they find the apartment? Interesting. Marco, Adriana and I make it back to the campus (and by this time Marco and I have taken six cabs today, but only see four nuns), back at the campus we find Jessica sitting with Hannah, Amanda, and Elizabeth. and everything gets taken care of. now that we know where all the girls that should be in Florence are we head off to our apartments and I lead the way for the girls who are in my apartment with Marco helping out with the bags. Finally we get the four girls in my building settled into their rooms and I flop down on my bed exhausted. But wait there are still three more girls to pick up, did I mention that part?
I pick my tired butt up off the bed and start walking to Nikki and Marco's apartment. I'm going to eat dinner with them and then go to the train station to pick up the girls (two of which are in my apartment). Dinner was excellent. Marco made this rice that I could have eaten forever. Haha. then off we went to the train station. Marco and I's taxi count is now up to seven and oh! Did I mention that we had seen two more nuns? Taxi=7 Nuns=6 Almost even now!
At the train station we find the girls really easily thank goodness. They are all really nice and I can't wait to get to know them better. Once they got their stuff set in the apartment all 13 of us girls (Missy is out of town) met up for some gelato. (Nora would be so happy).
Fourteen is going to be such a huge group. When it was only five of us it was much easier to get around without being the huge-group-of-loud-American-girls target. But now...we no longer have that luck.



Oh. Did I mention...I can't believe I will be home in less than a month. I'm actually kind of sad to think about it. I don't think I want to leave. But I do want to come home. If that makes any sense? I was to see everyone I miss so much, but I guess I just don't feel like my time here in Italy is done. Hmm...I guess I will just have to move back here some day. :]