soccer, ballets, and coffee shots

This Sunday, after a weekend filled with long runs, trips to the mall, and walking around Perugia, I went do see the Perugia soccer team play.

It was an interesting experience let me tell you. We get there and little did we know that we all needed an official picture ID of some sort in order to get into the game. Well guess who was the only person in the group not to bring an ID? This girl. Typicalities. But in my defense, you never have to show ID in this country. Ever. Long story short the whole group formulated some plan to borrow some girl's passport to sneak me into the game. It worked out. Somehow. I have good friends.

After an hour long debacle of getting ID's together to buy the tickets and the fact that Italians clearly never learned the importance of a line in grade school (they never line up for anything. its a massive cluster you know what every time you have to wait for something), we finally made it into the stadium. Even though the Perugian team isn't that great (D3) and they were playing a crappy team, it was still somewhat crowded and people were very much into the game to say the least. You would have thought they won a million dollars every time Perugia scored. It was great. And it was a beautiful day. The stadium is in the valley and all of the trees are at their peak right now.

Do they sell beer like at American sporting events you ask? Nope. They sell little shots of coffee flavored liquor in little plastic cups. I thought it was espresso. Then I tasted it... not the case. But it was good!

I was enjoying every second of it, the atmosphere was great, the weather was beautiful, girls paid less for tickets than boys (HA), until I had to go to the bathroom...

First of all, there's only one girl's bathroom as opposed to the 8 bathrooms for boys. So I had to ask directions because I kept walking into boy's bathrooms (sorry I didn't know).  Then when I finally made it to the bathroom I walked in and guess what? It's just a hole in the ground.

Sweet Jesus get me back to the US where they have actual toilets.

But overall it was a great day.

My friend MG is coming to visit me for the week today. I am so excited to see her.

Thanksgiving is only a few days away. Which is hard to believe. I'm going to be missing the fam bam. But I am in charge of the turkey here (lot's of pressure) so that'll keep me busy. Cross your fingers that I don't completely mess it up.

And guess what? I'm going to a ballet tonight. How classy am I? It's Sleeping Beauty in Italian. I'm really looking forward to it. I even get to dress up! Except I have no clothes that I haven't already worn 700 times. Going home is going to be like getting a whole new wardrobe.

Anyways. I'm sure I'll be blogging about the ballet, and Thanksgiving, before I leave for one of the BIGGEST CHRISTMAS MARKETS IN THE WORLD this weekend. I might actually might die from happiness while I'm there so really take in my posts this week.

Alright. Ciao ciao for now frandssss