Class? Oops. Oh, yeah.

So, class started this past week. It kind of crept up on me. After all the site seeing and going out, you kind of forget you're not on vacation. I had to go down to the Anglo-American bookstore and shell out about 100 euro, which is around $140 American. Last night, though, was "La Notte Bianca" (The White Night). Picture Marti Gras in Italy. Basically, all the cafès, restaurants, and clothing stores stay open until dawn. And the metro and public buses run all night for free. My roomates and I went out to dinner around ten o'clock at night and then took the metro to the Trevi Fountain to meet up with some friends. The fountain alone is amazing--I suggest google imaging it just to appreciate the sheer size of it--but the mass clusters of people were equally impressive. Around two a.m. we stoppped in a cafè for espresso just to stay awake and walked down toward the Pantheon where there was a Circus Solay-type acrobatics show going on. Later, we walked down to Campo De Fury where there's an American sports bar to check college football scores. So yes, this place is much more distracting than Columbus when it comes to class, but it looks like I'll just have to chalk it up as another adjustment to Italia. Well, ttyl. I have to go tear the plastic off my text books.