My Apartment

Finally got around to taking some pictures of my apartment. This is the basement:

The pullout sofa is a lot more comfortable than my bed...and also not surrounded by lots of girls waking up early, so I sometimes sleep there...

This is my "room." As you can see, the walls do not actually reach the ceiling...:

This is the kitchen/dining room/living room (along with two of my roommates):

And this is my messy bed:

Address Correction

So I was walking down my street the other day and saw a building with the number 64 on it...soo... the address I posted last time is not correct... Here is the CORRECT address:

Carolyn Morris
c/o MIL Service
Via Brusuglio 67
Milan, Italy 20161

Once again, if you send anything, use Fedex or UPS, etc, otherwise I will likely never see whatever you send me.

I have missed calls from lots of people this weekend and I apologize for that. Hopefully we can connect some point this week.

Heading for a snowboarding trip on Thursday. Will try to have some more pictures up before I leave. Sleep now.

Address

I have a post box at my apartment, but no key to it... Apparently the door man is supposed to give us our mail, but here is my address if you need to send anything. Italian post service is terrible, so if you send anything, you have to use Fedex or DHL, etc..

Carolyn Morris
Via Brusuglio 64
Milan, Italy 20161

OK - I do not know which address is right, because the apartment website lists 14, but I have always known it as 64... So... send it to 64 because I think it is correct..

Carnevale

So this weekend was Carnevale here in Milan. It is apparently mostly for kids, but some adults also participate. It is kind of like Halloween, because kids dress up in costumes, but they also throw confetti and silly string EVERYWHERE. There were shows and parades as well. Most of the celebrations were in front of the Duomo, a big church here. Here is a picture of the facade:

And part of the Duomo square:

Another part (if you go through the archway, you can find big, expensive brand name stores):

And here are some of the costumes:

I don't know if you can see, but the ground is covered with confetti:

A friend of mine from VCU came to visit this weekend for he birthday. She is studying in France, about 3 or 4 hours away from here. It was nice to talk about home with someone who knows what I am talking about. We are both waiting to hear about the Critical Language Scholarship for this summer..

Nothing much going on here really. I signed up for a ski trip in a couple weeks. Hopefully I wont injure myself again.. Otherwise, just kind of hanging out and trying to get into the Italian society. It is a bit harder when you live with 7 other American girls, but I have managed to find a couple of nice Italians. Hopefully I will find more...

I hear snow is coming towards Richmond...Watch out for the flurries

Orange Fight

So today I went to a little town called Ivrea. It is West of Milan, close to Turin. Every year, they have a giant festival which involves a LOT of oranges being thrown at people.. Heres a video:



It was truly an amazing experience... A giant waste of oranges, but I am very glad I got to see it. And I may have thrown an orange or two.. Also had lots of juice everywhere and got hit with an orange in my back. And had to block one from hitting my face. :)

I was supposed to go to Venice yesterday for Carnevale, but unfortunately I was really sick with a sinus infection I guess. But my friends were nice enough to buy me a mask.

I will post more pictures once I have uploaded them.

Ciao!

So the first week of classes is done. Not really interesting, just learning some Italian.


I finally took a walk around for picture taking. You can see all the pics here

They are mostly around my university, but I was just wondering around with a couple friends, so there are some random pictures as well.

Gonna try to go to Venice tomorrow. We'll see what happens..

Forgot Pictures...

It rains a lot here... This is the train stop.

More pictures to come..