"About 17,000 tons of parmesan cheese lie in the vaults of Credito Emiliano, a regional bank that accepts the cheese as collateral for loans." This is just one fun fact I found out today while reading recent NY Times articles about Italy.
So, today is officially our second Monday in Rome, pretty exciting! Classes today went well although we were all still a little tired from our weekend. But, what I really wanted to update you on was yesterday. Danya and I read up on various local markets so Sunday morning we woke up at 8 and headed to Porta Portese, a market known for antiques. It was about a 30 minute walk away so when we arrived we were already pretty tired, and the section that we came across first (it is a HUGE outdoor market) was pretty terrible. It didn't have any antiques, instead it was full of poorly made kitchen supplies and fake leather products. After walking through that section for a while we were exausted and kind of disappointed. We stopped for coffee and magically found the antique section. It was so wonderful! There were rows and rows of art, instruments, pottery, jewerly, and various other fun things. We didn't end up staying long because the weather started to take a turn for the worst, so we hopped on the tram and headed home. Despite all of trouble we went through to find the good part of the market, it was totally worth it, and we bought four tiny cacti for our room!
Well, it was a great adventure for a Sunday morning and got us excited to explore other markets around the city. We spent the rest of the day doing work and had our first group dinner last night. We call our Sunday night dinner "fam din" for family dinner. It was a lot of fun and quite filling.
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