The Centro

Front and street view of the Centro (it used to be a convent). All 38 of us live, eat and take our classes here. There are 5 American professors who live nearby and teach the classes. A lot of our time is going to be spent on field trips to various locations in Rome (and two extended field trips; one to Palermo and one to Sicily). All the students live on the 2nd and 3rd floors in singles or doubles (I'm really glad I requested a single. It's good to have some space.)


Our backyard! There's also a small fish pool with some goldfish, some intersting plants, a ping pong table made out of concrete (weird), and...

a lemon tree!? We also have an orange tree. We ate one and were pretty impressed.

Tomorrow we start at 8am with breakfast, then we are walking around the neighborhood (Trastevere) to become familiar with it. We went for dinner tonight...we're mostly surrounded by apartments, with some stores and restaurants. The American Academy is nearby, and there's a beautiful park right down the block I'm looking forward to seeing.

That's all for now. I need to go to sleep (I think I slept a total of 1.5 hours last night because of flying/time change.)