Day 11-Roma (Rome)

So my wonderful friend Jessica has a friend who is also out in Italy. So I'm suppose to meet her in Roma. So I take a train to Firenze, then get onto another train called the EuroStar. So I get on and think wow this is really great. It reminds me of airplane seating. So I get comfortable, the guy comes for my ticket and I hand it to him. He tells me that I'm in the wrong seat. I'm trying to understand him. So apparently they have assigned seating on this train unlike the other train I've been on, in addition I didn't have a first class ticket. So I got booted.

It was slightly embarrassing, but hey I'm new to this country. So the people at the ticket counter should explain this process, but they don't. I guess I'm suppose to figure it out. So I make it finally to my assigned car, but can't figure out where I'm suppose to sit, all the seats are taken. I find the train conductor, he takes me to my correct seat, somebody is seating in it. So this guy gets up, someone is seating in his seat. So I'm not the only person who doesn't get it.

I make it to Roma, it took about three and half hours to get there from Lucca. This train station is huge, with people and shops everywhere. I try to get in contact with the girl I'm meeting, but I can't. So I figure I'm on my own. I buy a map and start to figure out where to go and how to get there. I try to go the restroom, it costs .70 euro. I can't believe they charge to use the restroom. They have a underground mall.

I head to the hostel where I'm suppose to be staying at with the other girls. Somehow I find the girls I'm suppose to meet there which was great. So the thing with the hostels are you pay per person and not for the room. So there are five of us and there is suppose to be four. So the lady is looking like what's going on, so since I didn't come with them, they say I'm just hanging out. So they check in and come get me later to drop off my stuff.

So now we are headed to the Colosseum. We stop at McDonald's to get some lunch. So I had the chicken nuggets, which tasted almost the same to me. They have curly fries, which was great. I tasted the Fanta orange soda, which is a lot lighter, it almost looked like it was watered down. It tasted different, but not bad. So the girls want to walk instead of take the train. Which was cool with me, but it's hot. I sweated the whole entire day and sure I smelled unsure!!

The Colosseum was amazing to see. Our tour guide was so great. She gave us a lot of info and showed pictures. The Colosseum looks nothing like how it use to, the stage is gone where the gladiators use to fight on. The seating is gone, but it's still so massive and has a lot in tact. We leave there to look at the fountain, which is so grand!

So that night we meet more people from the program my new friend is apart of. We are headed out on a Pub Crawl, you pay 20 euro to drink free for the first hour, then they take us to other bars and give out free shots. So it was so many people there, my group decides its to many people. So we head out to find the clubs, we run into another girl who is doing a another Pub Crawl. So my friend get in free because it's her birthday and they have less people. So we go in.

I had some glasses of wine and I'm doing great. Soccer is really big out here, these two guys from Norway explain how it works. They are in the finals now and everybody is excited. I learned that in America we count down on the clock and they count up. So there is no five, four, three, two, one, time up! I also met another guy from Sacramento, California. There was also two guys from Richmond, California. So I think these Pub Crawls are designed for Americans because that's all I really see. So the night is going great until one girl we came with gets dumb sloppy drunk and needs to go home immediately. So the rest of the night is.....