Day 5

3:05am- go to bed.
8:30- alarm rings. re-set.
8:45- alarm rings. shower.
9:25- breakfast (closes at 9:30)
10:00- check internet. receive Flickr Pro account for birthday from Liz <3
10:30-10:45 run to classroom.
10:45- am told my passport is not in the bag with the teacher. Must return to hotel, find it, and go get it validated with the second group.
11:10- desk clerk is stubborn, doesn't believe me, and minimally checks the safe. Doesn't find it.
11:20- clean room, despite knowing i gave the passport to the front desk yesterday
11:30- texted by group leader, told to stay at the hotel and wait for her. loiter.
12:10- texted to meet roommate at classroom, to be brought to the post office for validation. run.
12:20- step directly into a flooded pothole.
12:30- finish validating, since it seems the passport was unnecessary in the first place.
12:30-12:50 run home, change socks, lighten backpack.
1:00-1:29 run, dragging loiterers who insist that the Arch of Constantine is absolutely reachable in a half an hour.
1:30- arrive on time, but am one of few. loiter. eat crackers and licorice for lunch.
2:00- enter Forum
2:00-5:00 Class
5:00-6:15 sketch, finally.
6:15-6:55 walk (albeit quickly) back to hotel
7:00- Welcome Dinner at neighborhood restaurant
7:00-8:30 the slow but steady inebriation of one exuberant table of my fellow students.
8:30-9:00 their exuberance becomes outright obnoxiousness. My table makes plans to travel to Venice.
9:00- desserts brought out, all sing Happy Birthday
9:30- having become fed up, i call the table out on being Ugly Americans and jackasses and more embarrassing than having happy birthday sung at you and that they need to shut up.
9:30-10:30 nothing changes, except that they now mock me intermittently.
10:30- they leave, but the rest of us are done as well, so the quiet is shortly appreciated.
10:40-italian teacher and a different desk clerk find my passport (in the safe)
11:00- realize the reason I haven't gotten any happy birthday calls is because my italian sim card is in my phone, not my american one.
11:20- write list of grievances instead of attempting the approx. 300 pages of assigned homework reading.