Mailbag

Here's where I will respond to the comments at the top of the page:

"I could hear your voice as I read your coments. How is the transportation? What do you do in your free time? Take care :)" 

I read literally everything other people write in their voices, which I find amusing.  The simple things in life, eh?  Just to be philosophical for a moment here, Marcel Proust wrote that people have different voices (i.e. lexicon, diction, etc.) when they write versus when they speak, and one of his characters was friends with a famous writer and himself wrote some articles for Le Figaro or something and adopted this writer's speaking voice instead of the writing voice as you would expect.  I sort of feel like my writing voice is generally much more intelligent than my spoken voice, so maybe I can ride my own coattails a bit.

Transportation is pretty convenient here actually.  Going long distances is much easier than in the U.S., as you can take a train from Bologna to Milan, Venice, or Rome without much hassle.  Local transport is a bit more expensive I think - the bus is 1,50 € for 75 minutes of travel, but you can also get bus passes that make it cheaper to use it a lot.  Mostly I just walk, because Bologna, like many European cities, I imagine, is very pedestrian friendly, especially in centro.

In my free time I mostly do shopping or head out.  There are like ten zillion restaurants, bars, cafés, etc. per square kilometer here, so there is no shortage of places to go.  Bologna is a quite bustling city

"Alex you do make me laugh! It sounds like you're having fun."

Thanks, Marm! I am indeed having a good time.  Everything is molto bene.


"I think the name of the blog is awesome, complete with a matching picture. It's very interesting to read about the differences between AMURIKA and Italy. Only wish I had enough monies to fly myself over there and visit you during spring break or something. Ah, well. I shall await your return in June (or was is July?)!"

Conveniently I had a picture to name the blog after! I guess bits and blogs would be a more punny name, but so be it.  The main difference I notice is that the people here aren't really in a rush to do anything.  I might even go so far as to call them apathetic about most things.  Hence the political system is completely screwed up despite the people being generally intelligent and hardly the sort of people "evil" enough to be Fascist (though it's been some 70 years since then).  

Perhaps if you spend enough time at Dunkin' Donuts this semester, you will have enough specie to pay for a ticket :P 'twould be well worth it I assure you

Also, heads up America, the hope of the states returns June 5th - my dad's [29th] birthday!

"BACON SAUCE...How do we NOT have BACON SAUCE here in the States?" 
Honestly, this befuddles me. What could be more American than the aptly and simply named bacon sauce. No gimmicks, just bacon in sauce form. I guess we'll have to make due with baconnaise until Heinz gets its priorities in order