rosy ng

I came, I saw, I sweated...alot

Hi everyone, in keeping with my promise of one email per country, here I go. we've been in Rome for only 2 days and it's felt like we've been here for weeks. The food is fabulous, Marg has practically been living off of mozerella cheese (they only seem to come in shapes of small bombs here). I unexpectedly, learned to love soft cheeses (yes, I actually had a whole thing of cheese for dinner!) Our hostel is a great place. It's a great price, right by the main train station but still walkable to everything in rome (it's www.hostelsalessandropalace.com) and it's got air conditioning,very very very clean and the bathroom comes with all kinds of handy appliances that you don't expect for a hostel. I'd highly recommend it if anyone is coming to Rome soon. We've been to the Vatican city (sistine chapel, st. peter's basillica and all the vatican museums), the Pantheon,a bunch of piazza, all kinds of fountains, and to the colosseum and the Roman forum. tomorrow is our day reserved strictly for SHOPPING! after that we'll be off to pompeii and then florence.
for some news in the personal growth department:
-Marg has learned that eating mozzorella everyday as a main course is not exactly being nice to your body
-I have learned how to eat my food faster and my gelato before it melts
-I yelled at young thieves near the train station
-Winston has learned to cut down his need for 5 meals a day down to 4 and that he's not 'starving' as he often claims
-Marg has learned to yell back at italian drivers who try to run her over in public
-Adrian now knows that a little heat is not going to kill you all in all

people in Italy are definately a bit more rude (we've been yelled at by people at train station booths and sent to wait in numerous lines that are wrong) but the food is really good and not everyone we've met has been mean. we've met loads of people from london and australia too. alright, on with the shopping!cheers, rosy

posted by hikui @ 9:02 AM