Sleepless in Milano

Ciao!
As the title indicates...this lifestyle cannot be sustained! It is literally impossible to go to bed early here, even when we don't go out. Our residence hall has some sort of hold on us! Furthermore, working for longer than a 3 hour window is just not in the Italian manual. NOTHING is open around here (when you need it to be of course :) It is hysterical to see how family owned shops/restaurants operate. "Eh...we closed now-uh..but..uh...you come-uh back in-uh twenty minutes we may have-uh some-uh panini's for you?" Also, the portions here are SO small compared to the obese US. I can safely say we've all lost at least 5 pounds. Needless to say, however, the food is absolutely phenomenal. Haven't had a bad meal yet!
The weekend was great, we finally booked a couple of trips! This weekend we are headed to Venice for Carnivale! Apparently it is one of the biggest parties in Europe and we're so excited to visit the city on the water. We also are going to Barcelona, Spain for out short break between Italian class and regular business courses! Many BC friends will be visited/visiting and we are absolutely pumped!
So many places, so little time!
Need to do my nails...and maybe shower...although poor hygiene seems to be a theme in Europe :-/
Now time for some Italian homework...we have to do 2 WHOLE sections of fill in the blanks. The difficulty and rigor of the courses here is second to Harvard Med and I DON'T know how they expect us to keep up :-)


Until domani...arrivederci!

P.S. I love you all!