stranieri

Hey everyone. so. let me tell you. not fun things. but some fun things. i will tell you. some things. so today i finally submitted the thing i need to submit to get my permit to live in Italy because i'm foreign. of course. I do what my paper says to report to the italian questura for a permit to stay, which is the italian police. I look up where that is and go there then they tell me to go to this immigration place. so i go there and the lady told me to come back monday (this was friday). so okay i go back monday and get lost because the train i need to take to get there was temporarily out of service so i guess i wander around aimlessly for a bit and get on a random bus and get off two stops later to look at a map and find the street i need is a few blocks away. so i follow the street and after 15 minutes i find that the street disappears somewhere else and i lost the street so then i just keep walking in the general direction not quite sure where i am going. i had called lorenza but she didn't pick up. Later, i find an outside market and i was thinking OH i've been here before, but no it wasn't the one i have been to before, so i make my way through the crowd and realize i am indeed hopelessly lost. oh but no! i notice a missed call from lorenza and call her back to tell her im hopelessly lost but she assured me i was not and to ask someone where the nearest station is. so i'm like thinking... oh dear... and right when i hang up with lorenza i turn the corner and there it is! the place i was headed to...only to discover...i could have gone to ANY post office. yep, thanks for letting me know. but 25 confusions, 13 wrong turns, 6 people and 70 euros later "LOOKS LIKE WE MADE IT!" i'm happy to be alive and get that business out of the way. what an adventure!

in the mean time........

cotoletta.

coffee!