A week in bullet points

Hello everyone!!
Its been a long 10 days since I last wrote a blog, but I'm going to try to update you as efficiently as possible on what I have been up to.
Saturday (Feb 5th)

• Got Up
• Showered
• Dressed
• Wandered
• Saw Castello Sforzesco, Parco Sempione
• Met up with Deanna
• Saw Duomo
• Got accosted by gypsies
• Saw the Galleria Vittorio Emmanuele II
• Went to the Novecento (20th Century Italian Art Gallery)
• Had sore feet, felt like late term pregnant woman
• Saw 2 more apartments
• Loved them both
• Forfeited the first because some French guy put a down payment on it immediately after I left to go look at the 2nd
• Ended up living in the other (see Monday, Feb 7th)
• Went back to hotel
• Went out
• Met people!
• Went to a club, got in!! Got two drinks for 10 euro!
• First legal drink! (Rum and Coke/Long Island)

Sunday (Feb 6th)

• Was not sober
• Was not drunk, either
• Grabbed a cab home
• Slept
• Woke up at 11
• Missed breakfast
• Ate lunch
• Skyped with Parents
• Complained about sore feet
• Annoyed the house-keeping lady because I was in my room when she wanted to clean
• Went for a walk through Parco Sempione (behind Castello Sforzesco)
• Saw Castello Sforzesco, L'Arco Della Pace, Arena, maybe half of the enormous Parco Sempione, many many Italians (on their Sunday evening Passeggiata)
• Walked home
• Took pics of Santa Maria Delle Grazie at Sunset
• Went to Bar Magenta for a Superbowl Party, met more people!
• New friends!
• Met some Americans who work in Milan
• Waited for Kickoff

Monday (Feb 7th)

• Kept waiting for kickoff
• Kickoff!
• Packers!!
• Left at halftime, dodged bullet (bullet being the Black Eyed Peas' halftime show)
• No SB commercials in Italy :(
• Slept
• Woke up
• Ate breakfast
• Extended hotel reservation (still homeless at this point)
• Met Sabrina from Pittsburgh (in my program), got the best gelato in Milan
• Found out we got apartment!! (we being Pedro, Benoit and I)
• Looked over contract, which was in Italian
• Handed over 500 euro of the 1050 euro deposit
• Packed for my move!
• Wandered around some more
• Slept!

Tuesday (Feb 8)

• Moved in to Via Leone Tolstoi 58, 20146 Milano, Italia
• Forced myself to unpack
• Wandered around the neighborhood
• Signed up for internet (that saga continues on Wednesday, the 16th)
• Began stealing our neighbor's internet in the interim
• Grocery Shopping (200 Euro!)
• Went out!

Wednesday (Feb 9th)

• Got home, had no sheets, slept under my jacket, was horribly rested in the morning. Resolved to buy sheets.
• Bought sheets!
• Took a glorious nap in my new sheets
• Felt refreshed
• Went out! First Apertivo! (endless hors d'oeuvres)
• Met more people!
• Ate many hors d'oeuvres (so many silent letters!!)
• Danced!

Thursday (Feb 10th)

• Went home
• Slept fantastically (new sheets)
• Wandered around Castello Sforzesco, Parco Sempione and Piazza del Duomo with Allie from Utah!
• Bought my first cardigan (Just for you, Tiffany)
• Was sore from all the walking (crave the burn)
• Seriously considered going out
• Did not go out! 
• Slept

Friday (Feb 11th)

• Applied for Permesso di Soggiorno (bureaucracy!)
• Walked around with friends from Cattolica
• Ate delicious pizza and cannoli
• Went home, signed the contract for my apartment and provided the rest of the deposit, 550 euro!
• Ate dinner
• Had a broken computer
• Went out!
• Did not make it to club (got all split up!)

Saturday (Feb 12th)

• Walked home from Duomo (30 minutes)
• Slept
• Woke up
• Took my computer to the Apple Store
• Had a conversation about my broken computer in broken italian
• Will wait 7-10 days for news
• Made dinner with Benoit and Sabrina
• Watched It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia 
• Did not go out! (Everyone went to Verona)
• Slept

Sunday (Feb 13th)

• Got up, and missed my train to Pisa. Skipped breakfast because I was so late!
• Got new train ticket
• Got on wrong train
• Changed trains in Bologna, then in Florence. Took a pic of Santa Maria Novella
• Got to Pisa 3 hours late
• Saw tower. It leaned
• Met up with Deanna and two of her roommates, Angela and Sarah.
• Took pictures pushing the tower over
• Went in Cattedrale (Prayer area by accident. Embarrassed!)
• Walked down to the Fiume Arno
• Wandered along the banks, saw ancient city walls, huge garden, and the hugely disappointing Palazzo dei Congressi. (on the map we saw the name and thought, Palace! In real life we weren't even sure what it was when we got there, but it was definitely not a palace.)
• Got dinner in Pisa! Sandwich and waffle with Fondent Chocolate from Caffe Astra
• Took correct train home (4 hrs). Much less stressful
• Got home, slept

Monday (Feb 14th)

• Got up
• Did laundry
• Cleaned obsessively
• Watched Lost in Italian (DOBBIAMO RITORNARE!)
• Went out for my friend Dakota's birthday!
• Played Never Have I Ever for hours

Tuesday (Feb 15th)

• Continued playing Never Have I Ever
• Went home
• Slept
• Set up phone line appointment (for DSL)
• Visited Hispanic market in Porta Genova with Jorge, bought delicious Hispanic things
• Felt like I was back in Miami
• Loved life
• Signed up for Snow Week (4 day Skiing trip through ESEG (international students association thing) at Bardonecchia)
• Felt my wallet's pain of the last week and a half (good bye 2000 dollars in 10 days)
• Watched the AC Milan vs Tottenham game at the bar across the street
• Learned new, inappropriate Italian phrases from the guys yelling at the tv (via cazzo! vaffanculo!) I will not be translating those
• Met the french girls who live next door
• Drank some fantastic red wine
• Slept

Wednesday (Feb 16th)

• Woke up EARLY (as in 8:00) to meet the phone technician
• Got the phone line set up
• Bought modem
• Failed at getting internet set up
• Apparently the internet still has not been activated
• Will wait 4-5 more days for internet that is not stolen
• While my computer is still broken
• Realized just how much my Italian has already improved over the last few days (though my vocabulary is still severely lacking)
• Wrote this blog! (on my roommate's computer)

The End

P.S. I will upload pictures when my computer is fixed (hopefully).
P.P.S. I got the internet set up!! Finally. Now the only technology I'm missing is my own computer. Having internet is liberating in a way though.
P.P.P.S. It has been raining the last two days incessantly and there is always a traffic jam outside our apartment. Italians incessantly honk at each other when driving, and the rain has just made it worse. My life is a cacophony of car horns.