Lecce, finally...

So i'm having a really hard time believing I'm actually here. Among several mini catastrophes, like losing my computer, I've been just getting settled in. Today we waited 3 hours in the post office taking care of visa issues, after which we got cell phones, slept, and then took a walking tour of the city. It was awesome. Lecce is on-fire amazing. It's like this old baroque city that no ones knows about, and even though there are a handful of tourists, we're by far the most obvious group, which is 20 students. It reminds me alot of being in Jamaica, when we had a huge air conditioned tour bus and cameras. I'm trying to be subtle, but if you know how much I like to take pictures, its a little bit hard to hold back from taking pictures of everything.

So with my computer, it's almost sure now that I've lost it. If i did have it at airport security in New York, airport security and delta at JFK don't have it. That means I now have to call Germany and Vermont to see if either of them have it. The reason i was almost sure I left it in new york was because I would have noticed before security if it wasn't in my bag, but I'm almost sure I took it out and put it thorugh the machine. I'm not sure why i would leave it there, and if I didn't actually leave it, then someone stole it out of my bag at the lufthansa terminal. Again, i'm not sure why anyone would do that.

So I've got to work on buying a new computer, or organizing for something at least. I'm thinking of buying a little tiny italian laptop, like the one elisa had at middlebury, because they're pretty cheap, and I might be able to work it out. Otherwise, I'm gonna have to look into finding a used one in bologna or something like that. It really sux too, because I have a warantee with Apple, but of course they don't cover lost products.... anyway, colpa mia (my fault)

I'm dying of boredom with out a computer, but at least we have internet. I sort of thought maybe it would be a good thing to be less attached to my computer in Italy in general, but now I'm just really bummed that I lost fotos and also documents that I didn't back up on my hard drive... i duno i have really bad luck with losing shit. It's actualy gonna be a miracle if Lufthansa or Delta has it.

So tomorrow we have a placement test and then class starts on friday. I'm so frickin tired and the heat in lecce is killing me, i'm of course being eaten alive by mosquitoes, but other than that and losing my computer, I can't believe I'm actually here. The walking tour we took of lecce was nuts, and I'm sure the rest of italy is just going to get crazier and crazier....

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ali