Orientation is officially over! Matera was very cool. It's a small town in the region of Basilicata in the very south of Italy. We visited the Sassi houses which are stone houses where the residents lived in very primitive conditions until the late 1950s. Primitive conditions means no running water, electricity, living with all your animals and no doors. The scenery was beautiful and Mel Gibson filmed part of the Passion of the Christ there (not that I've ever seen it).
Some people here are ridiculous. They act like they're on Spring Break in Cancun. We had an open bar and a dj at our really nice Hilton hotel and they went insane drinking. I'm talking peeing behind palm trees and acting very inappropriately with the staff, who really weren't much better. It just shows what some people's priorities are. Very sad. Besides that the trip was very fun, despite the very long bus rides there and back.
Being back has been fun. I'm really getting to know the bus system really well and have been taking it back and forth. I haven't been into Rome during the day because we've been doing our legal paperwork, etc. Last night a friend, Beth from Detroit, went and we sat on the Spanish Steps and chatted for almost 2 hours. It was so much fun to people watch and hang out. The night before we went to the Pantheon and Piazza Navona. It's so easy to walk around the city and everything is relatively close.
I'm having a little trouble putting pictures up because our internet keeps going in and out so uploading keeps getting interrupted.
More later. Watching Indiana Jones now. Yes, in Rome.
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