My first day as a resident of Rome, as a Trasteverini, was amazing. Hot, sweaty, crazy, and wonderful! I am loving Rome. I went out to the supermercato with some of my flatmates and we bought a few basic provisions: bread, mozzarella, apples, raisins, wine... you know, the necessities! Our supermercato is just a block down the street from our building and is so easy to shop in. We didn't have any problems despite the language barrier! After we dropped our spoils off at the flat I headed out in search of pizza with Wendy, Ashley, Lindsay, and a few others. We strolled down Plaza Ippolotino Nievo to Plaza di Trastevere and passed a few hole-in-the-wall local eateries, but they didn't call to us. We ended up in a cute wood panel and marble pizzeria that had delicious and fresh pizza. Everyone was so nice and the food was ridiculously cheap. €2 for a meal! We continued to walk on and found a cute little gelateria with a bitchy sales clerk. We found ourselves strolling along the Tiber river eating gelato and enjoying the (slightly) cooler weather. The Tiber has adorable markets and restaurants on the banks under the bridges with live music. It was just amazing to see bright neon green lights glowing against arches of Isola Tibberina - the old and the new creating something so beautiful and alive. We don't have to preserve the past exactly as it was... perhaps the role something plays in modern times is just as worthy of history as the original form. We learn about the story of what an artifact meant, functioned as, and also what it survived and evolved into.
I'm literally falling asleep at my computer right now... jetlag...
But I'll update later!
Buonna Notte!
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