one month in italy!

today laura and i have been in italy for one month. it feels like a year though. not in a bad way, it just does. tonight we are celebrating by going to the vegan restaurant we found a block from our apartment! it has tofu! hopefully it will be good because i have been going through withdrawls. this place seems really awesome. they have free wifi (which doesn't exist in italy), lectures, and i think yoga. i'm really excited.

erica, an italian i work with, and i went to buy used bikes the other day and it was a successful trip! mine is silver and i can pick it up tomorrow. it is really pretty. i will take a picture of it when i get it and put it up here. i am so excited to be able to ride around. i miss it a lot. but of course, i had to buy it right when it got cold.

okay here are some things that i like about italy right now:
1. that some italians think their public transportation is terrible and goes nowhere.
2. that i think most italian men have more purses than i could ever hope to own.
3. that i used my landlord's roller suitcase to buy vegetables this morning. she offered it and how can you turn down an offer like that?
4. that i was using a different computer, but the keyboard thought it was american when it was clearly italian and i couldn't find any of the puncutation marks.
5. that when laura and i went into a tobacco store to buy bus tickets, there was, honestly, a calendar of mussolini (included in it was a framed picture of him). AND next to that? a calendar of naked women.

there are plenty more amazing things, but right now, in my head, these are the best and what i would tell you about if i saw you in person.