I have had multiple requests for my contact info while in Italy... so here it is!
Phone:
You can call my Italian cellphone at 335.781.2305. Some of you have been lucky enough to get a call from Italy, but now I am learning that it is a lot easier (and cheaper!) for you all to call me! Just dial 011-39-335-781-2305 (from the states) and youll get me! (my parents and the ever-so-clever Paige have figured out that international phone cards work best!)
**Please note that this number will not work after December 15, so I will provide you with a new number for my time in Paris and Madrid
Mailing:
I would love to get mail from... anyone! My mailbox is so empty!
Emily Favret
Umbra Institute
48 Via Priori
Perugia, Italy 06123
As always, I would love to hear from you. I love Italy and am making a lot of friends, but really miss everyone from home. Whether family, co-interns or fellow Phanatics, I would love to hear from you. Being in a foreign country is harder than I expected, and the daily contact I have had with you all has been very comforting. Thank you for the emails, wallposts and messages!!
Ciao a tutti!
Sunday, September 9, 2007
Back safely from Roma!
We made it there and back... all in one piece! For our first trip in Italy (let alone Europe!) the roommates and I successfully took the three-hour train to Rome, stayed in a hotel, concoured the Roman bus and metro systems (and I thought DC was a challenge!) and made it through La Notte Bianca to get on the train back to Perugia!
Just wanted to let everyone know we got there and back... that it was a total blast... and pictures and a story will be posted tomorrow! I am still shocked that we concoured Italys largest city (and one of largest in the world) for our first weekend trip. But we did it!
Missing you all more than you could ever know -
Buona notte!
Just wanted to let everyone know we got there and back... that it was a total blast... and pictures and a story will be posted tomorrow! I am still shocked that we concoured Italys largest city (and one of largest in the world) for our first weekend trip. But we did it!
Missing you all more than you could ever know -
Buona notte!
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Yummmm!!
For those of you who know me, know that I don't cook. Baking is another story... but cooking hasn't always been my forte. However, my roommates and I have been cooking quite a lot since we've been here! Here is a pic of our dinner the first night, just the four of us!
We purposed to the girls next door - Kate, Madeline, Vanessa, Natalie and Danielle - that we have a due appartamento dinner every week! Every Wednesday we'll get together for a home-cooked meal! This week (pics coming soon!) we made the main dish and a side, and the girls next door made antipasti, got a dessert and brought the wine! It really is going to be a fun tradition, and will teach us how to cook different things every week (one of our rules is that you can't make the same thing twice!)
We purposed to the girls next door - Kate, Madeline, Vanessa, Natalie and Danielle - that we have a due appartamento dinner every week! Every Wednesday we'll get together for a home-cooked meal! This week (pics coming soon!) we made the main dish and a side, and the girls next door made antipasti, got a dessert and brought the wine! It really is going to be a fun tradition, and will teach us how to cook different things every week (one of our rules is that you can't make the same thing twice!)
Monday, September 3, 2007
An Italian internet point?
Ok you all know I type fast... but this is really hard! Its my first time on a european computer... and its so different! (Shoutouts to Janna and Paige... it must be driving you crazy that I am not putting apostrophies inbetween things... but I cant find it!)
The only cool thing about this keyboard is that I can write things like £ and ç and à and ò and § and ù with just one keystroke! Too bad the SHIFT and enter and ctl keys are all over the place!
So today was full of a lot of planning! I had class from 9-12, then went to lunch with Lauren (one of my roommates) then went back to class from 130 (1330 in Italia) to 3. Then the girls and I (Cathy, and two of our neighbors, Madelene and Kate) went down to the track to run. Let me tell you. Running on a track in Smithsburg or Elon is one thing... but running on a track that over looks the Umbra countryside was UNBELIEVABLE. We had to take the escalators down underneath the city to get to the track and had to run along side middle-aged Italian men wearing very very short shorts, but it was worth it. We have promised to go at least four times a week, to keep each other in shape. I am so used to having my gym-fanatic roommate that its comforting to have other girls here that want to stay fit.
When we got back we sat down andtalked about some of the things we want to do the rest of the semester. I also heard from Kayleigh (who is in Florence) and Will (who is in Rome) that they are soon planning trips to Perugia!! The roommates and I, and some other girls, are already planning on spending this weekend between Assisi and Sienna, the third week in September on the Almalfi (sp?) coast, weekend trip to Prague in November, and a possible fall break either in Greece, the coast of Spain or Germany. I am HOPING to go to Croatia for Thanksgiving (Cathy wants to tag along...) to round out the trips. We think we are going to do the major Italian cities... Rome, Florence, Milan and Venice... at different times this fall as well.
Thank you to everyone that has been leaving me messages, responding to the emails, and (most importantly!) writing on the facebook wall. I am sorry that I havent been the fastest to respond, but being 6 hours ahead is harder than I thought. I am normally online at what would be around 8am EST (2pm here)... so those early birds, feel free to IM me!
We are very excited to have this internet point literally within a two minute walk, however they dont have AIM and I am not about to ask someone in my Spanglianish (Spanish and Italian and English) and go through cherades to ask for AIM.
Ciao a tutti (goodnight all) y buona notte!
The only cool thing about this keyboard is that I can write things like £ and ç and à and ò and § and ù with just one keystroke! Too bad the SHIFT and enter and ctl keys are all over the place!
So today was full of a lot of planning! I had class from 9-12, then went to lunch with Lauren (one of my roommates) then went back to class from 130 (1330 in Italia) to 3. Then the girls and I (Cathy, and two of our neighbors, Madelene and Kate) went down to the track to run. Let me tell you. Running on a track in Smithsburg or Elon is one thing... but running on a track that over looks the Umbra countryside was UNBELIEVABLE. We had to take the escalators down underneath the city to get to the track and had to run along side middle-aged Italian men wearing very very short shorts, but it was worth it. We have promised to go at least four times a week, to keep each other in shape. I am so used to having my gym-fanatic roommate that its comforting to have other girls here that want to stay fit.
When we got back we sat down andtalked about some of the things we want to do the rest of the semester. I also heard from Kayleigh (who is in Florence) and Will (who is in Rome) that they are soon planning trips to Perugia!! The roommates and I, and some other girls, are already planning on spending this weekend between Assisi and Sienna, the third week in September on the Almalfi (sp?) coast, weekend trip to Prague in November, and a possible fall break either in Greece, the coast of Spain or Germany. I am HOPING to go to Croatia for Thanksgiving (Cathy wants to tag along...) to round out the trips. We think we are going to do the major Italian cities... Rome, Florence, Milan and Venice... at different times this fall as well.
Thank you to everyone that has been leaving me messages, responding to the emails, and (most importantly!) writing on the facebook wall. I am sorry that I havent been the fastest to respond, but being 6 hours ahead is harder than I thought. I am normally online at what would be around 8am EST (2pm here)... so those early birds, feel free to IM me!
We are very excited to have this internet point literally within a two minute walk, however they dont have AIM and I am not about to ask someone in my Spanglianish (Spanish and Italian and English) and go through cherades to ask for AIM.
Ciao a tutti (goodnight all) y buona notte!
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Pictures from the first few days!
Below are some pictures from the first few days! My roommates have already dubbed me the photographer, but I have been slacking! Here are the highlights of what I have so far!
A view of the Alps from the plane ride from Paris to Rome! Yea for having a window seat!
Cathy's and my room in our hotel the first night, Hotel de Gio!Before we walked in we were under the impression that it was for the four of us, but it ended up just being for two :-) Thank goodness! It was a really cute hotel, and the rooms we nice, but it was about a 25 minute walk... uphill... to the center of Perugia. NOT fun after a glass or two of wine and serious jetlag!
The roommates on our first night in Perugia! Lauren, Lana, me and Cathy! We took a pit stop on the looong walk up to the piazza to take our first roommate picture!
I don't know why it's sideways... but this is the view out of my window! Cathy and I are in one room facing the back alley, and Lana and Lauren are in the front room (the library as we like to call it) overlooking the street... and Quarto Passi! Our neighborhood pizzaria!
A view of part of Perugia! I took this on our walking tour our first day!
Again, don't know why it's sideways... but this is looking one way down Via Bartolo... my street! You think you can walk down the street, and then two seconds later an Italian car comes wipping around the corner! We have heard of some good eats, bars and even a yoga studio down this way, and are excited to check them out!
Hilaire... don't cry.
This is Quatro Passi!! This is the pizzaria that is literally right outside our door. The would-be hostess knows us (thank goodness Cathy is fluent!) and says "ciao!" every time we walk outside! We had our first pizza there today, and are always in love with the music they play (we can hear it from Lana and Lauren's window.)
This is our the door to our apartment building! There are three or four floors, each with two apartments on them. We are on the second floor, and there is a apt. of five other American girls! We are in the perfect walking distance of the center of town, and have heard that we have one of the best apartments in the program!
More to come later... and I promise I will find a way to rotate the pictures!! Ciao!
A view of the Alps from the plane ride from Paris to Rome! Yea for having a window seat!
Cathy's and my room in our hotel the first night, Hotel de Gio!Before we walked in we were under the impression that it was for the four of us, but it ended up just being for two :-) Thank goodness! It was a really cute hotel, and the rooms we nice, but it was about a 25 minute walk... uphill... to the center of Perugia. NOT fun after a glass or two of wine and serious jetlag!
The roommates on our first night in Perugia! Lauren, Lana, me and Cathy! We took a pit stop on the looong walk up to the piazza to take our first roommate picture!
I don't know why it's sideways... but this is the view out of my window! Cathy and I are in one room facing the back alley, and Lana and Lauren are in the front room (the library as we like to call it) overlooking the street... and Quarto Passi! Our neighborhood pizzaria!
A view of part of Perugia! I took this on our walking tour our first day!
Again, don't know why it's sideways... but this is looking one way down Via Bartolo... my street! You think you can walk down the street, and then two seconds later an Italian car comes wipping around the corner! We have heard of some good eats, bars and even a yoga studio down this way, and are excited to check them out!
Hilaire... don't cry.This is Quatro Passi!! This is the pizzaria that is literally right outside our door. The would-be hostess knows us (thank goodness Cathy is fluent!) and says "ciao!" every time we walk outside! We had our first pizza there today, and are always in love with the music they play (we can hear it from Lana and Lauren's window.)
This is our the door to our apartment building! There are three or four floors, each with two apartments on them. We are on the second floor, and there is a apt. of five other American girls! We are in the perfect walking distance of the center of town, and have heard that we have one of the best apartments in the program!More to come later... and I promise I will find a way to rotate the pictures!! Ciao!
First days in Perugia!!
Ciao!
It's 4:00 here on a Sunday afternoon, and I am sitting outside online!! Perugia... Italy... Umbra (my University)... they are all so beautiful! I don't even know where to begin. Traveling went off without a hitch, and I got to Perugia safely! We stayed in a hotel the first night, had dinner and went out for a drink, then woke up the next morning to move into our apartment!
Shout out to Hilaire Pickett - our apartment is at the PERFECT location! (Hilaire was here last fall, and I am in the same apartment as she is - right across the street from the best pizzaria in Perugia!)
My roommates - Lana, Lauren and Cathy - and I get along great, and have been navigating around this beautiful city for the past few days! Our apartment is one block off the main piazza and the famous "steps" - where everyone from Perugia meets before dinner, going out, or starting the day. We saw about 4 weddings there yesterday, and its lined with quaint bars, gelatarias and shops!
Tomorrow I start a week of intensive Italian classes, which will be great!! Everytime I go to talk to someone in Italian, I end up speaking Spanish. Wrong month... wrong country! A lot of things are the same, but a lot of things aren't! My roommate Cathy (she and I are really close) is fluent, so she is teaching us things as we go! After this week we are making our apartment Italian-only - we only speak English when we are on the phone! So coming and going, cleaning, getting ready cooking.... all in Italian! Cathy's mom is mailing us post-its (our personal favorite... they don't sell them in Italy!) to label everything in our apartment!! I have already learned a little bit, but everyday I seem to learn two or three new words/phrases!
Pictures are coming next... of my street, la Piazza Novembre, and my roommates!!
Miss you all! Emails and wallposts are always welcome! I opened Mail today and had a slew of them, and it was very comforting!!
Ciao!
It's 4:00 here on a Sunday afternoon, and I am sitting outside online!! Perugia... Italy... Umbra (my University)... they are all so beautiful! I don't even know where to begin. Traveling went off without a hitch, and I got to Perugia safely! We stayed in a hotel the first night, had dinner and went out for a drink, then woke up the next morning to move into our apartment!
Shout out to Hilaire Pickett - our apartment is at the PERFECT location! (Hilaire was here last fall, and I am in the same apartment as she is - right across the street from the best pizzaria in Perugia!)
My roommates - Lana, Lauren and Cathy - and I get along great, and have been navigating around this beautiful city for the past few days! Our apartment is one block off the main piazza and the famous "steps" - where everyone from Perugia meets before dinner, going out, or starting the day. We saw about 4 weddings there yesterday, and its lined with quaint bars, gelatarias and shops!
Tomorrow I start a week of intensive Italian classes, which will be great!! Everytime I go to talk to someone in Italian, I end up speaking Spanish. Wrong month... wrong country! A lot of things are the same, but a lot of things aren't! My roommate Cathy (she and I are really close) is fluent, so she is teaching us things as we go! After this week we are making our apartment Italian-only - we only speak English when we are on the phone! So coming and going, cleaning, getting ready cooking.... all in Italian! Cathy's mom is mailing us post-its (our personal favorite... they don't sell them in Italy!) to label everything in our apartment!! I have already learned a little bit, but everyday I seem to learn two or three new words/phrases!
Pictures are coming next... of my street, la Piazza Novembre, and my roommates!!
Miss you all! Emails and wallposts are always welcome! I opened Mail today and had a slew of them, and it was very comforting!!
Ciao!
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Well I'm burried in my bedroom under 14 feet of clothes...
Here is a look at what the room on Lindsay Lane looked like, mid-packing! Ahhh clothes were everywhere! It's been such a challange and a pain in the butt, but my mom and I FINALLY got my two suitcases under 50 lbs each. The weight of my carry ons? (a longchamp bag and a bookbag) Let's just say it's going to be a workout just walking through the airports!
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