Sorry in advance that I don't have a lot of pictures to post today; I've spent a lot of the day filming because I plan on putting together a travel log video of my time in Italy before I go home. So I was busy doing that and then my camera died before I could get a lot of pictures. So I'm sorry, but you'll get an awesome video when the program is over! :)
Anyway, today was a fun day! Natasha and I left the apartment around noon and went wandering through the city, looking for footage for her project. After her good camera died, we started to head home, but we got turned around and somehow ended up right in front of the Museo di Naturale, or the Natural History Museum. We decided to go in and take a look, because what the heck, right?
The museum employees didn't speak a lick of English, but I managed to communicate to them that we were students so we got a discounted rate of only 3 euros to go inside! It was a lot of different kinds of animals that were stuffed, so it was pretty interesting! All of the info plaques were in Italian, but from what I gathered, they talked a lot about evolution and fossilization and all sorts of other really cool things that museums are supposed to talk about.
Here's some footage I got while we were in there (I wasn't sure if we were supposed to have cameras so I was being sneaky)
Oh and inside the museum there was randomly a little space exhibit. So of course we had to take our pictures as astronauts.
(Natasha took that picture so blame her that I'm really small!)
After we finished at the museum, we wandered in the direction of home and ran into everyone from our class. They were all going to the aquarium so we decided to tag along to that as well.
The aquarium in Porto Antico is supposedly the largest in Europe. It was a little pricey (20 euros) but it was so worth it! I loved it! They had lots of different kinds of sea creatures and we got to watch them feed some of them! We spent a good 2 hours in there and it was such a cool experience. They even had most of the signs in English as well, so that was helpful.
After the aquarium, we went to the port's movie theater and we got to meet the director of the local student film festival that happens to start next week. He told us that 120 student films will be having screenings all during the film festival next week, it's free to get in, and there are even some in English! He was a really nice guy.
After that, we were trying to find a place to eat, but it was only 6 o'clock and it is IMPOSSIBLE to find somewhere to eat that early. Italians don't eat dinner until 8 or later. All the cafes and ristorantes were closed, but after we did some wandering we finally found a cafe that was serving apperitivi. Apperitivi (I probably butchered that spelling) is really common here in Italy, and a lot of the time it replaces dinner. Basically you go to a restaurant or cafe and you order drinks. (Alcohol is big here. HUGE. But you can order non-alcoholic drinks for this as well). With your drink, you get a whole buffet of little appetizer items that come in courses. For example, tonight with our drinks, first we got peanuts and olives and some weird flavor of doritos. Then he came out with carrots and dipping sauce. And then we got this little platter of a bunch of different kinds of sandwiches. There were mini tuna sandwiches, ham sandwiches, focacchia (bread with cheese), and even little ham quesadillas! And the drink I ordered was this weird blueberry banana fruit drink that was DELICIOUS. The whole thing was delicious!!
Anyway, that was my adventurous day today. Again, I'm sorry I don't have more pictures to illustrate this. If my camera hadn't died, I would've been all over it. Ah, well, maybe next time!
Thanks to everyone who is still actually reading this. It's nice to know that people care that I'm gone and are interested in what I'm doing over here. Let me tell you, if you ever get the chance to study abroad, DO IT! It's so hard but it's so worth it in the end.
Love and miss you all!
Mwah!
Ciao!
This is super awesome! Thanks for always updating us :D whooo! Italy!!
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