Walk like a Ro-oh-man

So I had my fist ah-ha moment yesterday morning when I was walking to my on-site class (which I am obsessed with), and it involved fearlessly walking into oncoming traffic. I had to cross the street in Piazza Venezia at about 8:30am, prime time for rush hour. This piazza is probably the scariest place to drive (and houses my favorite monument in the city). It is a big circle with like 10 different places cars can enter, with no yield signs in sight. There was a cross-walk, but since there was no traffic light, the cross-walk basically means nothing. So I just walked. And I realized I'm not a tourist here! I live here! I will cross the street when I want to, and not let the crazy drivers scare me!

Off to Perugia today. Leah and I ran into some trouble because we bought our train tickets for Friday morning, but found out yesterday there is going to be a train strike from 9am Friday morning to 9pm Friday evening. We though oh, okay, we'll just buy earlier tickets. Then we get am email stating there will be a national train strike from 9pm THURSDAY evening to Friday night. Awesome. So we bought tickets for tonight. Hopefully we can get a refund on our other ones, but I'm not sure if it's actually going to happen. We'll see. I struggled to pack since we have to go straight from class to Termini. Okay, I have to pack socks before I forget!