Italy verses the rest of the world...

This video was shown to me by both my Italian 1 and 2 teachers, who are from Italy and swear this is exactly how it is in Italy, verses the rest of the world. YEah can't wait for the insanity to begin, LOL!!!!!!

Enjoy!
Ciao!

bummer, beware of craigslist scammers

OK, so as many of you know I am moving to Rome to study art history with Temple University. I'm am so freaking excited I can barely stand myself. I am THE art history museum geek and proud of it! Rome is just the place for me to experience in person some of the greatest masters of art.

So I'm now trying to get myself ready and prepared for this major trip and the one thing I have to do is find somewhere to live.

This by the way has not been so easy, Italy is very very (very) expensive, so on the advise of the school counselor at Temple I've been searching Craig'slist.org. which she noted other people have used to find apartments in the past. I have been searching other sites for long term rental in Rome but like I said it is insanely expensive. So at first I was thrilled to see how cheap some of the apartments were on Craigslist.

So here are my findings. In short, refer to the old saying if it seems to good to be true it probably is. I really wanted to believe the people who wrote me back about their cheap apartments for rent and that the money wasn't as important as finding someone reliable and clean to care for their homes. I truly almost fell for this, but they are all scams.
Sighhhhh. I'm so sad now as I was so excited and was feeling so smart that I was going to save a bunch of money on these cheap places and have my own beautiful apartment in Rome.

Renting sight unseen is so darn hard and scary, but I have no choice and will probably have to pay a lot more than I want to and go with reputable well know possibly touristy place, unless I can find someone who knows someone who lives in Rome and is willing to find me a place. Anyone have any close friends or family in Rome, who will help me find an apartment??

I'm goin to Rome!!!! woooowhooo!

Hi all!! This is my very first blog, courtesy of my good buddy Dirkey who just set me up here.