It has been a busy week so far...Sunday we went to the flea market, where I got lost and had my first claustrophobia freak-out ever. The flea market is huge, and apparently very tricky. There is one verrry long stretch where there are no side streets for what I swear was about a half mile, which seems like it might as well be 50 miles when you are stuck in a sea of people walking in every which direction. I had no idea how long it would take me to find a way out, but it ended up taking almost an hour. I am ok now though, don't worry. This weekend there was also a market in the piazza right next to our apartment put on by an organization working to protect local agriculture. We bought honey and sausage and other goodies. This week Karen and I made some more new friends as well- we met a little french guy who is an intern for the french embassy....he invited us to an outdoor party, where we met some more italian friends. We are acquiring many italian teachers, and getting to practice our italian plenty. I have also had opportunity to practice my spanish, which is a fun break from trying to speak italian, but has resulted in what I call spitaliano- a dangerous mix, in which plurals run awry and c's and g's develop multiple personalities. You know you are confused when you are talking to an italian in spanish and you both begin adding i's to the end of words to make them plural. Yesterday we worked on the archaeology site doing documentation drawings. Tomorrow we are doing the same, and we are also planning to go to the beach afterwards because it's nearby. Oh! And we moved to a new apartment today because there were some plumbing issues (our apartment is leaking into the one below us). We should only be at this one for about a week, but we kind of what to stay in the new one, so Tom is going to see if they would let us. Here is a picture of the market this weekend.
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