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Aug. 17th, 2004 02:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nigeltdeTwo weeks in and it's still so fucking hot. I'm getting a tan for like the first time in my life. The heat and the toilets, they are the worst things about this place. The toilets are really fucking disgusting, they never have seats or toilet paper and got help you if you go to a public toilet in a park or somewhere. We went to like a four star restaurant the other day and the toilets STLL didn't have seats. Fucking Italians!
Other than that it's going well. A small group of us went to Pompeii the other day and that was amazing. I was astounded at how much remained after 2000 years of earthquakes, volcanoes, pillaging, being buried and being rediscovered. I felt like I was directly plugged into Ancient Rome at times. We went to a national park on Sunday and while the park itself was just a lake with some grass and about 15 million Italian families, the trip through the nearby mountains and valleys was full of the best scenery I've yet seen. Then yesterday we were off to Rome which was a bit of a bust because we wasted a lot of time travelling and one girl fell ill so we spent an hour or so waiting around for her. But we made it to St Peter's (only the outside, damn damn damn!), the Fontana di Trevi, the Spanish Steps (just steps, really), and the Vittorio Emmanuel II monument, and did some shopping on the Corso. Most of last week was taken up with classes in the morning and walking about Cassino or drinking in the afternoon.
The North and South Americans arrived last week. The South Americans party harder than anyone else here, and still manage to be up and bright-eyed the next morning, while the Australians, Canadians and Chicagoans (the only people from the US in Cassino are this incredibly good-looking brother and sister combination who have the whitest teeth I have ever seen) stumble out half an hour late for school looking like crap. My roommate is from Sao Paulo and doesn't speak Enligsh, but we've worked out a pretty efficient system of broken Italian and mime that gets us by. Meanwhile like the freak I am, every time I see a Candian I think Mountie!!! And everytime I see a Chicagoan I think Ray!!! But alas, none of them have ever hear dof Due South.
I miss fandom and all my geek friends so much, everyone here is normal and cool and I can't dork out with anyone. All the girls are obsessed with bags and shoes and spend ages like power-shopping for them, and when they're not doing that they're power-tanning. I'm going crazy!
Other than that it's going well. A small group of us went to Pompeii the other day and that was amazing. I was astounded at how much remained after 2000 years of earthquakes, volcanoes, pillaging, being buried and being rediscovered. I felt like I was directly plugged into Ancient Rome at times. We went to a national park on Sunday and while the park itself was just a lake with some grass and about 15 million Italian families, the trip through the nearby mountains and valleys was full of the best scenery I've yet seen. Then yesterday we were off to Rome which was a bit of a bust because we wasted a lot of time travelling and one girl fell ill so we spent an hour or so waiting around for her. But we made it to St Peter's (only the outside, damn damn damn!), the Fontana di Trevi, the Spanish Steps (just steps, really), and the Vittorio Emmanuel II monument, and did some shopping on the Corso. Most of last week was taken up with classes in the morning and walking about Cassino or drinking in the afternoon.
The North and South Americans arrived last week. The South Americans party harder than anyone else here, and still manage to be up and bright-eyed the next morning, while the Australians, Canadians and Chicagoans (the only people from the US in Cassino are this incredibly good-looking brother and sister combination who have the whitest teeth I have ever seen) stumble out half an hour late for school looking like crap. My roommate is from Sao Paulo and doesn't speak Enligsh, but we've worked out a pretty efficient system of broken Italian and mime that gets us by. Meanwhile like the freak I am, every time I see a Candian I think Mountie!!! And everytime I see a Chicagoan I think Ray!!! But alas, none of them have ever hear dof Due South.
I miss fandom and all my geek friends so much, everyone here is normal and cool and I can't dork out with anyone. All the girls are obsessed with bags and shoes and spend ages like power-shopping for them, and when they're not doing that they're power-tanning. I'm going crazy!
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Date: 2004-08-17 11:54 pm (UTC)Plus the Olympics are on, and everyone's walking around in the telly all tanned and either in speedos, leotards or bikinis. Scantily clad athletres competing in sports at an international level. What more could a girl want? *g*
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Date: 2004-08-21 05:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-22 02:14 am (UTC)I got your postcard! <3 I can see what you mean about the buildings, but the scenery looks nice at least. How's the weather going? It's actually starting to warm up here, much to everyone's shock. I think I've forgotten how to feel warm.
Miss you! Hope you're having a blast in compensation ;)
Durmstrang Academy
Date: 2004-08-21 06:33 pm (UTC)Come be a student, professor (many teacher positions are still open), or an outsider (shopkeeper, witch, wizard, etc). Join the dark force, the 'good side' and duke it out. Hang around, make friends, and just have fun!
Students get sorted into original houses, and even get sorted their own animal while at their stay at Durmstrang.
Welcome, and have a blast!
--- Igor Karkaroff
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Date: 2004-09-12 07:55 am (UTC)