First Day of Classes: Back to the real world, sorta.

So today I started my first day of classes. It's like jumping back into school world, but just a little more European.

Our classroom building is less than three minutes away. I woke up, got dressed and actually put on make up and got a cornetto, which is a pastry.

Philosophy sounds interesting kinda. My teacher is an Italian who got his degree in Philo from Columbia and hates the Italian government and likes to rant. Were learning about identity of self, ethical philosophy, philosophy of women rights, religion through philosophy and shaping of western philosophy. He also wrote a book on the philosophy in south park and during our five minute break his first question was, so have you been out drinking yet? We all had been in Rome for 14 hours, that wasn't exactly on our to-do list. He also loves movies, including one with Sean Connery so I think this class won't be too bad.

Archaeology sounds awesome, lots of work though. Like my other classes it has a midterm, a final and a term paper but also has a presentation in front of the entire school. I have to talk to Dr. Prebys to make sure I can still get credit for it since I took the class last semester at smc, though different and got a solid A. It was the class I can drop if too overwhelmed but it looks like fun so I don't know. Mom said I should drop it if it'll take work because it could hurt my GPA but I don't know, well see if I can talk to Dr. Prebys tomorrow.

Western Civ- world history is ancienct world aka 3000 BC to the middle ages. I'm the only history major in the class. It's an hour and a half of taking solid notes. The guy is really smart, he got his PHD from the University of Wisconsin which actually has the top PHD program in history in the entire US oddly enough, but he talks really fast in english.

I bought my school supplies like you said. I also got my internet, 100 euros for the whole time. We had to pay in cash but it'll be worth it. I need it for all my classes, the library closes at 8 here.

We haven't got a chance to walk around much, just to see the pantheon. It rained today so not much exploring yet. Lots of homework tomorrow though which sucks. At least this weekend we'll be going to some of the top Roman sights with the tour group.

I grabbed dinner and then went snack shopping with Regina and now am back to doing my reading. I'm loving it here though still.