Beware of the Zingo...

Ciao Rega!

Come state? Tutto a posto?
(These are the usual introductory phrases being used in a standard Italian meeting.)

Some time has passed since my last posting and some people might think I have been busy...but guess what, I have been lazy as fuck...this Erasmus semester is becoming a 4 months holiday...nothing compared to the stressed work&uni life I used to have at home...
However, here some news...

Friday we went to see the Stiff Little Fingers at Forte Prenestino...it was fun, they were playing really well, sound was good, they played most of their hits (except for Dead of Night, which pissed me off!!). But to be honest, I had the impression they were a bit arrogant...maybe Im wrong...I dunno..
Saturday was another show, Forty Winks *clickme*, an amazing & in my opinion totally underrated Italian rock band from Bologna, who played at Traffic. There, a friend of mine introduced me to this strange drink called rhum e pera - you get one shot of rum and one shot of pear juice and you drink the rum first, followed by the pear juice...it's sweet and after 6 of them, I was a bit tipsy (Grazie Stefania!!). The good thing is that my Italian gets better with every drink which is a nice side effect!
The night ended with some crazy Guitar Hero gaming in my room with the whole Forty Winks gang who slept at my place since they had no other place to stay...

The day after we were supposed to go out for lunch with the band& some friends but being a bunch of lazy cats, we didnt...we really wanted to but at about half of the way, we decided to go somewhere else...and we rode through town....here some pics of things you see when you ride through Rome on a Sunday afternoon...

We ended up close to the Vatican in a place called "Mondo Arancino". There you get strange food from Sicily called arancini (which means "little oranges")..these are fried balls of rice with vegetables, cheese and/or meat inside....here you see me with one of them...

On Monday, I went to the usual, pretty interesting uni course on "Lexique de l'informatique et des nouvelles technologies", but the day after, things started gettin weird. As I have mentioned before, Italian universities and schools are on strike these days because of a new law that has been installed. So when I arrived at uni for the Italian course, there was no one there and I went home again. Yesterday was the sciopero generale, general strike of all schools and also the uni. There were several manifestations all over Rome, one even got out of hand - see here. So I was not sure if I should even go to uni. I wrote some postings on the uni forum, no one answered. In the end, I stayed at home because the people I asked about it, told me they highly doubt that there were any courses....
Today, I would have to go to one course (a very boring one)...but I got into this sciopero thing and now Im sympathizing with the poor Italian students....(Im being ironic here...)

Maybe it's also the fact that this afternoon Im going to buy a acoustic guitar!!!! I can't wait...after 6 guitar-free years, I'm back again!
However, this morning I burned my right index finger while brewing coffee and now it's a bit difficult to write, so I better shut up...

Have a nice afternoon, Baci