A full week

A full week in Italy and everything here is going really well. My roommates are awesome as are the other people in the program. This weekend has been fairly similar to weekends at school only in a new more interesting location. We've walked around the city scouting cafes and pubs we want to come back to and just getting a feel for where we live. The streets are quite curvy and little and usually you don't end up where you thought you would. Saturday during one of our excursions we went to a Pucci exhibit at the Siena museum which was his spring-summer '57 collection that was based on the Palio and contrata symbols. All the clothes were so amazing and the funny thing is that about 80% would be super fashionable if you wore it today. Saturday night we went to a party of a friend of one of our Italian roommate's which was fun but got a little awkward towards the end when we we leaving but overall it was a good night. Sunday was a lazy day and I just did some errands and I was quite happy to discover that we get the Daily Show here. Next weekend we are planning a trip to Cinque Terre, which are 5 little villages on the coast since we have a three day weekend.
On another topic turns out being in such a beautiful place does not fend off my normal beginning of school feelings of homesickness. It's not even that I want to necessarily be at home or back at school but just around all my people. I love being here but at the same time I feel really cut off form everyone and everything because I haven't gotten to talk to many people from home. Every once in a while it's nice to be cut off but not for a week when you are in a new place and just need a little reassurance. We are supposed to get internet soon so that will help. It supposed to be fixed last week, twice, but they never fixed the right thing so we'll see if they actually fix it today.