so much to do!

So I feel like there are so many annoying things I have to do, which is why I'm sitting in the student center writing on my blog. Today started out pretty bad. Last night I set my alarm to go off at 7:45 for my 9:00 class, but I forgot to hit enable, so I woke up at 10:30...I'm really annoyed, especially because it was Italian. Any way, I did manage to make it to my Greek and Roman Mythology class. The teacher's kind of a loon, but whatev. Yesterday was my first class, the Italian Grand Tour. Also a loony professor, but in a fabulous way. We're going on a bunch of trips for these classes which I'm SO excited for! Tomorrow I have the Venice Film Festival (with Meg) and my art history class, so I'll let you all know how those go. I'm done for today though, which means I'll be spending the rest of the day sitting here online :) Anyway, after class I wandered a bit through the market, tons of cool stuff that I'm sure will make me go broke. I talked to this guy who did try to sexually harass me which was a nice change. He said he could spot a New Yorker anywhere and then asked if I had an Italian background. I told him I was Indian and he said that's why I'm so beautiful. He's my new BFF lol. So after the market I managed to find my way back to my area, so I could stop by the grocery store to grab an orange for lunch. That's the one thing here that's cheap, groceries. Not to mention, the fruits and veggies are so delicious and fresh. I love it. Well I've been sitting here since then and discovering that orange soda here is significantly different from orange soda back home unfortunately. On a completely different subject (i decided not to make paragraphs today), I have some pics of my apartment, I'm just being lazy, but hopefully they'll be up sometime this week. I guess that's it. Just to show everyone how much of a procrastinator I am, here's my to do list:

-sign up online for a permit of stay (which is a complete scam)
-actually get my permit of stay
-buy my italian textbook from the library
-get my ldm id card
-pick up textbooks for my other classes
-buy my eurail pass
-plan out my semester trips

speaking of semester trips, here's what I'm hoping to do roughly in the order I'm gonna do them:
-Rome
-Nice
-Paris
-Spring break with Shannon :) (maybe Venice for a few days)
-Sevilla
-St. Petersburg
-Greece (depends on when Josh is coming to Florence though)

Our trip to Vienna isn't going to work out unfortunately because the train ride is 11 hrs each way (and for a 2 day trip its not worth it) and the cheapest flight I could find was like $400 (cheaper ones were really inconvenient, they were like Milan to Bratislava). It sucks because I really wanted to go to the Klimt museum, but I guess I'll deal. Paris is the one that I really have to work on because its the only definite one. Can't wait to see all these places. K, I guess that;s it for now.

<3 Alli