Thursday, June 02, 2005

Finally (Sigh) I'm Here

Well….(gigantic sigh)….I am finally in Rome and still scared out of my mind. I really don’t know what I am doing here. I don’t think that I am smart enough to figure things out for myself. I mean, I will be fine after I do figure things out or see someone do something but just to do something for myself the first time by myself, I just cannot do.

Oh, my trip still hasn’t gotten any better. I got into Rome a little after nine o’clock local time. By the time I got through immigration, got my bags, and made it through customs (which was surprisingly easy), I couldn’t find the free shuttle to my hotel. I walked around outside looking for it but it was not there. Come to find out, I missed that last shuttle by about twenty minutes. (Oh, and dad, the bus wasn’t green. In fact, I saw it parked outside the hotel and it does not even say holiday in on it and it just looks like a normal bus) So I had to take a taxi. OH MY GOD!!!! They really screw you when they get you from the airport. Come to find out too, there are many holiday inns close to the airport and mine was is actually halfway between the airport and the city. It took ten minutes is all to get to my hotel and it cost me forty Euros with a tip. THAT SUCKS!!!! I don’t know how I am going to have enough money for this trip.

Well, I need to get to bed so that I can get up in the morning and figure out how I am going to get to my residence.