Day 6- Supermarket

Ok so it's Monday, we really need groceries. So there is this grocery store outside the wall that is suppose to be really cheap. Ok, so the city of Lucca is one of the only cities that still has a wall that encloses the city. The wall was made of stone and is huge, there are secret entrances that you can walk through to get out. So your not really trapped but can't enter by turning down just any street. The wall is really high up, sorta like the Wall of China.

So we live south in the city, this supermarket is north outside the wall, so it takes us like 20 minutes to walk to the other side of the wall. We make some wrong turns, but end up at one of the secret entrances. All of sudden it was like walking into the batcave! The entrance by us it not like this one. We walk down, make some runs, it a little dark in there, have no idea when it will end. We make it out, but decide no to take that entrance again.

So we walk, we run into people in our program along the way, so at east we know we are going the right way. So we make it, so to get the cart you have to put a one euro coin in the slot. I felt like I was back in the hood. So the three of use split up and go at it. So I'm reading the labels and looking at the photos trying to figure out what I'm buying. So they don't really sale salad dressing here. They use a lot of vinaigrette and oil. It took me the longest time to find the sugar, which was next to the ice cream in the front of the store. So I spend 68 euros on groceries.

Now it's time to get it all home. So I brought a backpack and my carry on should bag. Fill it all up and still have to carry two bags. My roommate brings a duffel bag, the professor brings nothing!! Why, there are some questions I just don't even bother to ask. I mean I still can't use my door! So we leave, but look for a cab. We can't find one. The professor leaves us and his groceries to find one. We waited for like fifteen minutes, in the mean time my allergies start really coming down. I'm like I gotta go, I start walking on this path back through the wall, they had just mowed the loan. I start sneezing like crazy, trying to walk fast, but got all these groceries. It was torture!

So I make it back in, they are right behind me. We found a quicker route back to the apartment, I was so tired and my arms and back were hurting. I was dying for a cold glass of water. There is a cafe right under our building, so we go get cold water and catch our breath. this was more manual labor.

So the people that own the building are suppose to be there at 6pm to wrap my roommates mattress in plastic. So my roommate as all these small red bumps all over. Some people said it's bed bugs, however, they don't itch and I don't have them. So it's e mystery as to what is going on. I have some experience, but I thought it was allergy to something because there was so many and they where all over. It looked like the chicken pocks. So they came earlier in the day, and had no clue what bed bugs are. Then they start looking for them...umm they don't come out during the day and they are inside the mattress. They tell my roommate that there is nothing they can do about the bed, but fresh linen on...two sets of sheets.

So we hope my roommate doesn't get bit and I don't either. Kelly, the instructor, said someone last year had them.