Niente da fare...

I'm currently contemplating whether or not it's worth posting a blog today seeing as my life the past few days has been, as the Italians would say, molto noiso, or very boring.  But studying abroad definitely has its ups and downs, so I suppose I need to share the downs with everyone as often as I share the ups.  And unfortunately, my immune system has been on the down this week.  

Monday afternoon after I went to watch the movie I came home feeling pretty tired.  I called it an early night, hoping some much-needed rest would help me feel better, but I woke up on Tuesday morning feeling quite the opposite of better.  I managed to pull myself out of bed for class but nearly passed out face-down onto my desk by the end of the lesson.  I stumbled home, stopping by a pharmacy on the way to pick up some medicina.  Through the fog in my brain I tried to describe my symptoms to the pharmacist, who, although she spoke no English, was very patient with my fragmented attempts.  I couldn't for the life of me think of the Italian equivalent of "sinus infection," so I felt like a contestant on The $100,000 Pyramid.  It was as if I could describe the term in any other way besides using the term itself. In Italian, I explained to her "It's not a fever, it's similar to a cold, it causes you to feel very tired, it's when your nose is congested and it causes your head to hurt," and after she figured out I was describing a sinus infection I nearly expected a host to jump out and tell us what kind of prizes and merchandise we'd be winning.  She gave me some kind of Italian miracle cure, because I slept throughout the day and got about 11 hours of sleep that night.

I woke up this morning feeling much better, but still not totally enthusiastic to doing anything too active.  After class my roommates and I found a little hole-in-the-wall trattoria for lunch that was cheap and delicious, but that was about the most exciting part of my day.  Other than that I've just been laying around and making myself mugs of hot water and lemon juice.  Molto interessante, no?

The one positive aspect of feeling under the weather this week is that the weather itself is pretty gloomy.  It's a lot easier to be stuck indoors when it's raining.  I don't think I'd be able to stand it if the sun was out!

One more night of good rest and hopefully I'll be feeling better tomorrow.  I want to be all better for our excursion to Rome this weekend!

Yours very sniffly and very bored,

Caity