Flatmate love!

Marissa and I were so fortunate to find such awesome, funny, friendly hosts!! We kept saying how we cannot wait for them to visit the States. Anywho, on Thursday, Anna finally finished her finals so we decided to go to dinner to celebrate! Anna, Petra, and Aurelien (All students in the Erasmus program) took us to Trastevere which is young area of town with restaurants and nightlife. We had some awesome Italian wine over the best pasta and lasagna I have ever had! The second course, the "special meat", not so good, but overall a great Italian meal! We also had fun speaking to our Brazilian waiter in three different languages: Marissa in English, me in Spanish, and everyone else in Italian! He was so funny, but refused a picture with us unfortunately. Afterwards, we sat by the river and chatted a bit before heading home. Marissa and I had such a great time!!

Christopher Columbus Beach... why it is named this, I do not know.

Pretzels on the beach.

A pear on the beach.

We already miss our new friends!

The next day, the same group of us headed over to the beach. That's right, I swam in something besides the Pacific! The water and beach was beautiful. I, of course, forgot my towel (or tire?) so I had to buy a little tapestry. Aurelien was nice enough to bargain for me, but I had to pay in exact change (which of course I did not have) so after pooling money together, I got a little tapestry for 8 Euros... 8 Euros for a tapestry MADE IN INDIA where I am going in 1 week and could have bought for 1/4 the price!! But... when in Rome? I guess?

 

That in no way but a damper on the day though. We had such an awesome time hanging out with our new friends!! We played a little beach volleyball in the waveless waters. Aurelien did an impressive job keeping his cast dry even. I evened out my extreme Toms tan, and we got a picture with the American flag! Overall an AWESOME day which made packing up and leaving even harder that night.

 

That evening at the flat, we chatted with Anna, Aurelien, and Kajetan for almost 2 hours just joking around, drawing... haha! Marissa and I were so lucky to find such laidback people who shared our sense of humor on a lot of levels. We are going to miss them so so much!! But we both extended invitations to them for visits to the States so hopefully this will not be the last time seeing them!