School Daze...

.So I get to the University on Monday morning just before 9 and students are sardined into the main vestibule, zig-zagged every which way. Complete disorder and obviously not enough administrators to assist all the incoming students that are waiting to get enrolled, get their temporary registration to live and attend university, and to take their entrance placement exam. I´m hardly a morning person, so my crankiness level rose to about 7.4 on the richter scale. I really like organization and promptness (although punctuality is hardly my forte), especially at world-renown institutions...so to say this was unorganized is an understatement.

As of this posting, I have yet to commence classes because the line to get my entrance placement results (and thus my class schedule) has been 4 hours minimum in a basement that apparently has the heat going all year round. Ugh.

I also managed to get an apartment after seeing 5 assorted slums, complete with paint crumbling off the walls in 4 of them. Unfortunately, I didn´t take the (only) one that was the cheapest, large, nice and nearest to the University because my roommates would have been a 75-year-old married couple looking to rent out their 2nd bedroom. Sigh. My current apartment is pretty crappy with a sketchy Italian roommate who calls himself Fran (who is also my landlord) but not that expensive either. I picked it for two reasons: it´s located on the only flat road in Perugia (land of the rolling mountains) and it will force me to never be there.

P.S. In case you didn´t know, there´s a magnetic forcefield around Italy and as soon as you enter the country, you deodorant immediately ceases to function.

Oh and by the way, I love the comments, I read them all so thank you very much. Keep 'em coming.