View From My Apartment onto Campo de Fiori
UW Rome Center
1. Wake up about 8:30am
2. Get Ready and Eat Some Breakfast (Either Cereal & Yogurt in the apartment or fresh fruit from the market right outside my door with a cappucino freddo from the café downstairs.)
3. Go to Class (About 10am - 2pm)
4. Eat Lunch from a Bakery on Campo de Fiori (Either Pizza or a Sandwich)
5. Siesta and Homework Time! (3pm - 5pm or 6pm) -- Got to get out of the heat!
6. Dinner Time (7pm-8:30pm) -- Normally involves some sort of pizza, pasta, or salad in the general vicinity of Campo de Fiori.
7. Walk Around Town to Some Random Location & Gelato!
And there haven't been too many variations from that.
I absolutely love Ricardo's class! He knows so much, he is a great lecturer, and his class is really engaging! It's a great combination of Roman History, Art History, and just generally interesting information.
One thing that did interrupt the normal routine was a little mishap with my debit card -- it seems I cannot escape at least one per trip abroad. I was using an ATM at a partner bank of Bank of America and it was working just fine, but then the card got stuck in the machine (because it was broken, apparently) and it wouldn't give it back to me and the transcation was cancelled (luckily). It told me "Take it in 30 seconds or it will be retained." I didn't get it out so I had to leave my debit card there. I got back to the apartment and called my bank and asked if they could do anything. They said that they could cancel the card and reissue it, but I said that they should wait in case I could get the card back from the local bank in the morning. They agreed, but said it would be slightly unlikely because in the USA, if an ATM retains a card, it is immediately destroyed. Well, I thought it was worth a shot, so I went to the Deutsche Bank this morning and got my card back -- intact! I just had to present my passport for identification. The man at the bank said that they actually retained about five cards last night. I went to try it at a different ATM, but it was declined. I called the bank again and got it sorted out because apparently a fraud alert hold was put on my account when the card was retained so I needed to get that taken off. So now... I have my card and it still works! I don't have to deal with the bank getting to send me another debit card overseas or having to wire money to myself at a local bank. Fun times in the world of Peder!
One thing out of the ordinary today was that we watched a film for my anthropology/literature class -- "The Merchant of Venice." After that, several of us took a walk to the Trevi Fountain and got pizza and gelato along the way. I can say that the Trevi Fountain is one of my new favourite places in Rome!
The Trevi Fountain
Me at the Trevi Fountain
Tomorrow, we'll be going on site visits around Rome for Ricardo's class.
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