Day 18- Tell All

So I have the house to myself!!! I slept so good last night. I didn't wake up until 11am. So my roommate is gone to Venice, along with the bday girl and another girl. I believe three is a crowd, but clearly the other girl didn't mind being the third wheel or maybe it's not that serious. Well whatever the case couldn't be me!! I'm just lad they are gone.

Also my professor has two girls staying with him that go to NYU. So won't be haring from him either, he has guests to entertain. So the girls are traveling all over Europe, but plan to stay in Lucca for a week. My professor has this really small apartment, so don't know who's sleeping where, but also not trying to find out. Now these girls look like they are 18, but I will give them benefit of the doubt that they are 21. My professor said they worked together on some movie/video project....sure. He looks like he's 45-50, starting to grey, slight gut.....

Now it's not that I don't mind people coming over, but they never go home. Also they be dumb drunk and making hella noise. Not to meantion one of them droppeda whole bottle of wine, which happened to be my bottle that wsn't openned. I love how you go on these trips and now we are all best friends because we have no choice. But NO, I'm not looking for new friends, I love the ones I already have. Besides I'm not that trusting like some.

So later on in the day, I go to see this gallery opening for a professor that goes to Pratt. So I end up going with one lady in the group, who is an older woman. Oh she got on my nerves, I was taught to respect my elders, but she was pushing me to the limits. She is so not trusting of my decisions. We get off the train and have to figure out where exactly the gallery is located. So we are looking for the map, we find it. It looks far, but she thinks we can walk. I told her "I'm taking the bus." Then walk away to go buy my ticket. Here she comes following behind.

Now granted she is a mother, grandmother, so I think she's use to being in charge, but you will not tell me what to do. I'm grown just like you!! So then she doesn't understand why we need to buy two tickets for the bus. Once we stamp them they are only good for 75 minutes, so the opening is for 2 hours and we are early, meaning we will be longer than 75 minutes and we will need a ticket to come back!! At this point she can go wherever she please. I know what I'm doing.

So we make it to the gallery and try to find some food to eat before the opening. I told her I don't want to go to anyplace hungry. She thinks that they may have food. So I'm like ok, don't eat, but I'm going to. We try some restaurants, but they weren't open yet for dinner. So we have pizza, but she wants to split it, so I'm like ok. Finally, it's time for the opening, two other people from our program meet us there. I should have came with them. The work was abstract, but good.

So we leave out and almost missed the bus because there wasn't a sign. We get to the train station, the train is late. So it then changes tracks, then there is an announcement in Italian, we were doing our best to figure it out. The track changes again, but then the train disappears off the board. We talk to a train conductor, he has no idea what is going on. The ticket counters are closed. So we go back to the other track and the train is leaving from there. So we are on and make it to Pisa, where we have to change trains to get back to Lucca.

However, when we get there our train is gone. We missed it by like 2 minutes. It was also the last train. So now, everybody is running around trying to figure out different ways to get home. We try to find a bus, but there are none that go to Lucca. We call and find out that there is no way to get back. We had to take a taxi, which end up costing 43 euro. We split it among four people so it was like 10 euro each, which wasn't that bad. Had it only been myself, I might have waited for the 6am train, the next day!