so it's raining and thundering like CRAZY right now. i'm with two friends using the internet at school, and we're not quite sure how we're getting back to the hotel alive.

anywho, i had a pretty cool day. i slept in, then i went to the antiques market that's in il prato della valle the third sunday of every month. it was reeeeally cool. after that i wandered through la piazza del santo where saint anthony's basilica is and got a really awesome prosciutto crudo e mozzarella sandwich. while i was wandering some back roads with my sandwich, a french couple flagged me down and were speaking quickly in french, and then were like "ERBE. ehhh....piazza...ERBE." so i was like oh hey okay i know where that is! they didn't understand english OR italian, so i just spoke to them in italian for practice's sake (and i was hoping it'd be closer to french than english), and was like well i can't really explain how to get there because it's pretty far away, but i'm going in that direction so i'll take you! when we got there they asked if i lived here (i can understand easy french verbs woo), and i said i was studying italian. then they said but you ARE italian and i was like ha no, i'm american! and they were all NO WAY (because that is totally the lexicon of elderly french couples).

italian until proven guilty haha.

last full week of school starts tomorrow! my friend laura is also coming into town tomorrow afternoon, i'm SO excited. ^_^