Thursday

It has been a busy week.  Several of us went out to dinner at a small restaurant in Trastevere called Trattoria de "Gli Amici".  From what I know of Italian, gli amici, means friends.  My pronunciation is very, very bad but I am starting to understand Italian, but even if I memorized it at home no one could understand me here.  

Restaurants do not serve until after 7:30 at night and I just wonder when the Italians sleep, surely not all of them take a nap from 12 to 3 PM.  

Today Eija her husband and I walked up one of the seven roman hills here in Trastevere to the school of Finland, beautifully restored.  As is usual for most cities, the wealthy built higher up than the poor people.  The air is better but I suspect it was because of the Tiber overflowing and it was before plumbing.  It is the same in Montreal, Canada.  

We  ate at a cafe near the school and I had shrimp and radiccio with lemon.  Then off to school to learn the different types of articles in Italian.  My brain is having  trouble absorbing any more in my class, perhaps it is best that tomorrow is my last day.

Oh, my haircut experience.  The salon very small and the woman who did my hair massaged my head for a full ten minutes, then wrapped my head in a warm towel and put me under some sort of heat machine.  So relaxing and I thought she did a very good job.  It is more expensive over here, fifty euros.

I bought a week bus and tram pass, so I can zip around as fast as possible for the remainder of my stay.