Issues with Transportation YET AGAIN

Our problems with public Italian transportation continued this morning. It's a holiday here, so the schedules are different. We took a bus at 9 am (meaning it left the station at 9 am). I sat on the right side of the bus - the first time I had ever done that. I know all the landmarks on the left side. Apparently no one was paying attention, and we missed our stop. The next stop was about a mile down the road. So then we had to wait 45 minutes for another bus to come. 4 of the Alabama girls decided to start walking... about 5 minutes before the bus came. So even though we left the hotel at 8:45, we didn't get here until 10:30ish. The Alabama girls just got here now after they got lost walking back. So class is finally about to start... oh like 2 hours late.

The grad student is presenting today and then we get to work on our projects. We're having the last lunch at the restaurant today. Then tonight we have a special dinner at a nice restaurant in the plaza in Padova paid by CEREF (the organization here that did everything for us). We're signing cards for Piera (the one in charge), Francesco (works here, took us to hospital and Padova) and Laura (the secretary that organized us breakfast snacks every morning).

It's so humid here, my hair is so ridiculously curly. I had to fan myself when we were waiting for the bus. Gross.

Ok class is starting (I think), ttyl!

xoxo S