The Week in Retrospect

Wednesday
This entire week is International Students' Week, which means that clubs are cheaper for us. We pay 10E for two drinks versus 10E for one drink. All of us from the Arcobaleno (my dorm) headed to Old Fashion, which is at the Cadorna stop in downtown Milan.

Drinks in Italy are strong, and thus worth their money. I had a Screwdriver, a Mohito, and a Negroni. There were two to three shots of alcohol in each drink, so we can say that I was pretty wasted. Don't ever order the Negroni, it's absolutely gross. The Italians may love it, but it's three types of Gin and just disgusting.

The club itself was pretty cool; it was an outside bar with a dance floor and three separate bars. There were couches and tables everywhere, and they were playing American music for the most part.

Then I got back to the dorm and drunk skpyed some people....

Thursday
We had our six hour Italian class at 9AM, and needless to say we were a little late (only half an hour). I was so hung over, and ended up puking twice on the way to class. I slept through most of the class (so I don't know anything about ordering food in Italian now) and when I woke up, I ended up running to the bathroom just in time to puke. I've learned my lesson: no drinking for 9AMs, it's simply not worth it.


Friday
Binoy, Andrew, CD, Ali, and I decided to visit the Duomo after class, and it was beautiful. This is a picture of me and Binoy in front of the Duomo. It made me feel a little better about being in Milan since I've been so bummed with how industrial it looks. We'll be going on a tour soon, and supposedly they're taking the cross down on Saturday for some reason. I just heard that. We went around to the shops, but they were all really expensive. We did see the Ferrari store though, which was pretty cool. (I bet you're jealous Phil!)

We ended our trip with Aperativo, which is the best concept in Italy. Aperativo is usually from 5pm-9pm, and you the restaurant may charge from 6E to 14E. You get one drink of your choice, and then it's buffet style for the food! It is declicious, and the best bargain that I've found in Italy thus far. Eating's about the only thing I feel consistently like doing here!