I recently got an Italian cell phone. If you do not have the number and would like it, please email me. It's really old and looks like a phone I had in middle school. It's a Nokia with a non-color display and no camera. However, there is Snake in the games section which I am excited about. I get free incoming calls (local or international), so feel free to call as much as you want.
Today Kate (my roommate) and I went to this store called Panorama. It's kind of a mixture of Wal-mart and Costco... It was huge and crazy. I will upload photos later for this. I ended up buying some snack/breakfast food and some other things I needed (like nail clippers). It was pretty cheap, but we had to take the metro there. It's not really a store that is worth the trip, so I probably won't go back for a while. It really has almost everything -- from tools to clothes to frozen fish, and even a hair salon.
Last night, I went to my first "discoteca" called Coyote. It was pretty far from where we live -- I live in Prati and it was in Trastevere (these are all neighborhoods within Rome). It was half foreigners and half Italians. Most of the people in my school were there last night. It was fun because they played a lot of American songs so I knew the music.
Lately I've been missing American because I miss American food. Not "American" as in hamburgers and hot dogs -- although I do miss hot dogs -- but restaurants that exist in America. There isn't much variety here (surprise surprise) because Italians eat Italian food. However, Kate and I tried to get Mexican food and it was very bad here. They don't really have cheddar or American cheese, so everything is with parmesean or mozzorella. In fact tortillas are really expensive here, so the food isn't very good. Definitely no Cotixan's. Tonight we're going to try Indian food, so I'll let you know how that goes.
Pictures in the next update!
