First for Everything

On Friday, we decided to head to the Mercato Centrale and get food for the apartment. They do not have the typical grocery store like we do in the states. This was a big open market with tons of vendors selling meat, pasta, fruits, veggies, and other assorted things. It was a little overwhelming at first going in there and not knowing what to buy or how everything really works. It is pretty cool though that unlike in the United States, everything here is fresh with no preservatives and very few packaged goods. We made our first meal here, fish and mushrooms-- delicious. And of course a few glasses of wine. It's convenient, we have a wine store right down the street, the people who own it will probably know us pretty well by the end of the semester!

 

Friday night we ended up going on a pub crawl with a huge group of study abroad students. That is where I ended up finding the AXO and K-State written on the walls. Most of the bars that we went to were like any others in the states except for the very last one which was a huge dance club. I had never been to one before considering Kansas doesn't really have much of those.

After two nights of going out, Saturday night we decided to keep it chill. Ended up at this Ethiopian restaurant smoking hooka. We didn't eat there but are definitely going to go back. They had samples of some of the food that was delicious, the best food I have had at a restaurant here so far! The street that we were on gets closed during the night so no cars can drive down it. We were in these cool seats in the middle of the street just smoking. After that we decided to go get gelato which is ten times better than American ice cream! We sat on the Duomo steps and ate our ice cream- which is still not sinking in!

 

Today we are going to eat breakfast and then head out to the Pointe Vecchio. Classes start tomorrow!