Assisi

Saturday Alyson and I went to Assisi by ourselves just for the day. The program usually schedules it as one of the excursions, but this semester they didn't so we wanted to see it.

We decided we need to start praying to Saint Christoper. Apparently he is the saint of traveling and we have the worst luck with traveling. I should have known it wouldn't go smoothly when my alarm clock didn't wake me up and I woke up 5 minutes before the bus was supposed to leave. Oops. We took a later bus and didn't have a lot of time in Assisi because the only bus home was supposed to leave around 3pm. Well, the bus never came. Italian public transportation might be efficient, but it's a real pain in the ass....So we took a 4-hour train home (Assisi is like an hour and a half away).

Assisi itself was pretty. We went to San Francesco's Basilica and saw Cimabue and Giotto's frescos. We stalked other tour groups and listened to the guides so we knew what exactly we were looking at. That's definitely the way to do it because you can just walk away when you don't want to listen anymore. There was a voice over the loudspeakers telling everyone to be quiet in italian, a deep, man's voice..coming from somewhere above us, shouting "Silenzio" and "Non foto in Basilica" at random times. Of course God would be Italian.

We walked around the city the rest of the time...I found a wine glass outside the Albergo Giotto-a hotel, so I have a little souvenir now. Alyson said it was Karma that we missed our bus because I took the wine glass. Maybe, but I don't think Giotto would have cared too much.

That's pretty much it for now. My computer turned on last night and worked for a little...then died again. But I did back up some files in it's short life span, so that's the positive side. A few months ago, I'd be freaking out if my computer crashed like that. I think the Italians are rubbing off on me...that or all this pasta is affecting my brain. We asked our Italian teacher why Italians aren't obese from their food intake--3 course meals for lunch everyday, pastries and cappuchinos for breakfast, and pretty good size dinner. She didn't really know..