We all met up at 9:30 at the fountain to get breakfast (we got kicked out of the hostel then), then we started to wander a bit through town. Eventually the group started splitting off, so it ended up being me, Julie, Becky and Leigh wandering together (found a really nice pasticceria for brekkie tomorrow). We ended up sitting on the steps by the Fontana Maggiore, and noticed a couple of pideons circling us to see if we had food. We then noticed that the guys in the area were acting the same way (very amusing) so now the word pidgeon is a running joke. We met Grazia (the professor in charge of our program) at 3, and wandered for a bit, then she treated us all to a gelato. We broke off and a bunch of us went to go get copies of out passports made for applications that still needed to be filed, then we went to the hostel and hung out. Around 7, a group of us went to go meet some of the "pidgeons" who had actually turned out to be nice and were going to show us a hard to find view (don't worry, safety in numbers), but they stood us up (may have had something to do with the three guys in our group...). So we went out to dinner(me, Julie, Jason, Mike, Andrea, Taren and Joe) at a place called Perusia Vecchia (old Perugia) which served traditional Umbrian food, which was nice. We wandered a couple of people back to where they were staying, then Julie, Mike, Joe and I hung out on the square, and eventually headed back to bed.
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Em -- I loved reading about your first days in Italy. How are Italians in Perugia toward American students? Tell us a little more about Perugia -- history, what people do for work there. Do they dress differently than Americans? Do you feel like you are walking in a movie set? Love, Mom
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The Italians in perugia have not really interacted with us yet, except for the guys I mentioned earlier. Hopefully once we start class it'll be easier, but we usually only see them out in groups right now, which is not very conducive to mingling. Perugia's history is way too complicated to outline now, but suffice it to say, every conquering army has come here (from the Etruscans to multiple Popes). They dress much more extravagently than Americans: more color, more sequins, more everything. It does feel a bit like a movie (Julie has said Epcott center) but less than Venice did (which was just too surreal for me to believe it wasn't a set). Any others?
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