SPQR

Greetings, finally, from Roma. We just finished getting settled into our apartments in the city after a few frantic travel days in the northern section of Italy (read UMBRIA). All nine of the guys in the SAPR are grouped into a single apartment in the Campo de' Fiori, overlooking the statue of Giordano Bruno. He was burned at the stake on the very spot (something about claiming that the earth was not the center of the universe).

My bed is lofted above my roommate's along with my shelves; it's like my own private room within the larger one, which has its own balcony as well.


So far, we haven't gotten a chance to create any art, but I have had plenty of pizza, pasta and wine. It's a very warm society (like the climate), but it does take some getting used to in order to integrate myself better. Not knowing any Italian makes explanations very confusing on the street. I wish everyone was as good as Ze Frank when it comes to explaining the intricacies of anything.