Good Morning!

Ach! My last blog just erased itself when my computer froze up. Anyways, today is a beautiful day! The sun is shining and I'm sitting on the communal balcony, which is not really a balcony, listening to Daughtry and eating stale bread. I keep forgetting that I have to be prepared to eat an entire loaf of bread in 2 days to keep it from going stale. Guess I'm just enamored by the fact that I can get an entire loaf of bakery fresh bread made just that morning for less than 60 euro cent. It's so nice to wear shorts again without tights. For the first time in three months, the weather is warm enough to wear them and a tank top! I was quite spoiled with Point Loma weather. It is a perfect gelato day.

Last night, I cooked spaghetti alla carbonara and cheesy potatoes with my friends, then we went out. I met an English rugby team! They were super nice and they hung out with our group of people. They were so relieved to hear people speaking English. Then, we went to the Murazzi and danced. The Murazzi is a huge wall that was constructed in order to hold in the overflow of the river in the winter when it floods. There are rooms there that were originally used to store wares. They flood along with the river and were made to withstand large amounts of water. But, recently, those rooms have been transformed into a bunch of dancing clubs along the river. They open as soon as the weather gets warm enough and the river is no longer flooding. The atmosphere is so thrilling! You get to meet many of the Torino locals there, as it's not a place frequented by Erasmus students. We got home around 4 in the morning and I woke up to the sun shining gorgeously into my window.

I decided not to go anywhere this weekend. I had originally planned to go on a Mediterranean cruise that was decently priced starting on Monday, but I was notified that I have a meeting with the authorities to get my official permit of stay this Wednesday, so that I'll officially be legally in Italy. But, I found out that it is really cheap and a short trip to Monaco, Nice and Monte Carlo. So, next weekend, I'll be on another train for a warm, sunny place!