Thursday, October 29, 2009

out with at bang.....?

Published by bethany at 3:28 AM



it was a sunday afternoon, prime time to do homework, and i was settled in my usual position at the end of the living room table when suddenly my chair collapsed and put me on the ground. in the picture above i hadn't moved an inch.
with the news of another montecatini malfunction i also bring news that we are moving out! at first we were hesitant when offered a new apartment, but after visiting the new location and dealing with the continuous decline of our current apartment we decided to go ahead and accept the offer. it was just last week that the housing office informed us that they had just finished refurbishing a new apartment building in trestevere. they were also interested in dropping the contract with the landlord who owns our apartment and another apartment where isu students are living. there are 16 students in all that will be moving tomorrow afternoon to our new apartment santa maria in cappella. the area is very safe and its occupied by more locals than tourists which will be a nice break for us since all we see are tourists near the pantheon. we will have a porter at the new apartment so i will be able to receive mail there, when i know the address i will let everyone know.
ciao!

pumpkin wumpkin

Published by bethany at 2:50 AM



this year at iowa state the 3rd annual pumkin carving contest for the interior design student association went worldwide! last week the rome students, including myself, carried out our own pumking carving contest on the terrace of the rome studio. our fellow interior design students back home with compete today, october 29 back in ames. the results from our carving contest will compete against those from iowa state because we emailed all of our photos after our event. since pumpkin carving pumpkins here cost 18 euro we decided to carve in pairs. my friend tina and i were pretty happy with our results and overall we had a great time.