HO TROVATO CASA! (I found a place!)

Ciao, tutti!

I took the leap and committed to a place! It's the one on Via dell'Indipendenza. The location was just too good to pass up! I'm going to wait until I am nice and settled to post photos of my room, but here are some of my roommates:

From left to right: Serena, Christina, and Francesca. We took this last night, after Rachel and I met them for drinks and munchies at a nearby bar, Le Stanze.

• Serena is in her early 20s and is majoring in Theater. She's also really into photography and molto alla moda (fashionable).
  
• Christina is 22, an Erasmus (exchange) student from Spain, and has lived with Francesca and Serena for four months now. Also, it only took her one week to find an Italian boyfriend.
• Francesca is 26 and works at a really chic store nearby, Guru. Her and Francesca went to high school together in Lecce, a small and beautiful city in the region of Puglia (the heel of Italy's boot).

And this is my fourth roommate: JAB, Serena's dog. What you are thinking is correct: he is larger than me.

All of my roommates are awesome, fun, and none of them speak any English (not even Jab, although I plan on teaching him a few things).

Everyone is anxious for me to move in ASAP because they don't like having an empty room in the apartment, but for the first time since I have been here I am suddenly nervous. While I knew this was going to happen eventually, taking the jump is a little more difficult than I expected. Leaving Rachel and our cozy little hotel is scary!

Speaking of Rachel, good news: she has found an apartment too! She is living with a German girl and two Italian guys. I met the Italians last night - both of them are architects and seem really cool. Also, they are a little older, although we aren't yet sure how old exactly because Rachel has been too chicken to ask.

Rachel and I are going to IKEA this afternoon with our Cornellian friend Alex James and some other students from the BCSP to pick up some snazzy decorative items for our apartments. The bus ride is about 45 minutes and the group going seems to be getting larger and larger, so this should be a fun trip!

A presto!