Dear mom, what a relaxing week this has been.

I realized I hadn't updated this in a few days and I think it is because this week has just been so relaxed that I didn't think there was much to say. It is thursday afternoon and I am done with classes for the week. Tomorrow morning we are waking up bright and early to spent the weekend in Pomeii, Stabiae, and Naples. I am very excited for this trip because I have never been to Pompeii and I haven't left Rome at all since arriving so it will be nice to be in a different part of Italy for a change.
Like I said this week has been great. All of my classes are going well and I feel like this week has given me the opportunity to take care of non school things and just hang out with friends. Danya and I had two particularly fun adventures this week. The first one, randomly meeting the mother in law of the Brazilian Ambassador to Italy and having her invite us over to tea! The second one, going to get our vaccines for Morocco and meeting some tourists from Hamburg.
We have not yet made our tea date, but hopefully that will happen when we get back from Pompeii. As for the tourists from Hamburg, we met the couple while waiting at the bus stop after our doctors visit. They asked how to get to Piazza Navona so we just took them right there. It was really fun to talk to them because they had never been to Rome and they had come on whim, so we were able to give them a lot of advice as to what they should see and do.
Another thing Danya and I finally had time to do this week was to play some music. We have been working away at the duets in the farm and wilderness string band book, and hopefully before it gets cold we will play some outside just to get our first experiences with busking. We figure if everyone else in Rome can do it, we can too.
So the fun continues, although there are not too many distinct stories to tell, I am sure there will be post-Pompeii trip.