Travelpod entry #2

YES! Finally we’ve found a room!

A beautiful awesome great room which I’ve already made a deposit on!

It’s great it’s near a train station and bus stops and metro stops and all that jazz

Anyway, so yeah, happy happy joy joy.

 

Update:
Sorry, I didn’t even try to help you guys find your own rooms! 

Okay, so, I tried craigslist, I tried Googling stuff but omg, that didn’t work at all…
I didn’t find some very expensive ways to spend short vacations in Rome though…

Yes well, English sites obviously did not work.

BUT… I tried some Italian sites. Much better, since the room I found now is good location and furnished and roughly around 600 euros a month including utilities and adsl connection. (This is for a doppia, which means there are two beds, or at least two spaces to sleep, some have double beds, some have two separate beds.)

So yes that’s 300 euros a month I saved from last time I looked… (Hellooooooooo dinner!)

So, a few good sites I’ve found:
Easystanza.it (Italian version of Easyroommate.com)
Home4students.it (Commercially run I think, but I still found some good stuff there)
Roma.kijiji.it (It’s in the left column, Case in affitto)

Well those are the ones I used to finally find something, once I found those I had about 10 good rooms in a day, and it took me 2 days after that to have a contract. So yay, I particularly (spelling?) recommend Easystanza, it’s easy to use and has lots of stuff.

Okay, so you need to know some Italian to read these things and the people you need to e-mail might speak some more Italian even… HELLO YOU WANT TO LIVE THERE… try learning some 
If that’s too much work just crack open Altavista’s Babelfish and interprate whatever it tries to tell you.

Ktx.

Travelpod entry #1

Yes, so.

Welcome to my humble little space. Just after summer I will be writing from the lovely city of Rome. This makes me very happy, but also anxious and stressful.

My girlfriend, Gaby, has been stressed for months. I haven’t but yeah, to each their own. Fact is though, she does have a problem at this point. She still has to do 2 exams before being allowed to go to Rome. But she also wants to do a language course in Perugia.

Not a good combo, or so it appears, the only places left in the language course are in the same weeks as the exams… (Perugia – Nijmegen… distance: 1.417 km)

So, two options are given:
1. Stay home, do exams, learn your own damn Italian.
2. Go, study Italian, try and get them to give you an oral exam. (over the phone?..)

Anyway, I suppose we’ll go for the first since she wasn’t that keen on going there without me anyway. BUT HOW THE HELL IS SHE SUPPOSED TO LEARN ITALIAN ON HER OWN?!?!?!

So yes, that’s made of win.

I, on the other hand, am doing quite well, thank you very much.

I have FINALLY finished all my schoolwork and only have 7 weeks left before summer.
During these 7 weeks all I have to do is get my points for this course and get my graduation assignment approved.

Bah, ah mere triviality (is this an actual word??), of such commonness (again, word??) that I will not stress at all.

Meanwhile, finding an apartment in Rome is made of hell. Cheapest for two people I can find comes to around €900 a month. I will not be paid for my internship. How am I supposed to pay rent? Ah well, it’ll work itself out, right?

For now I am hoping the Italian lady understands the word utilities…

Hello, it feels so wonderful to be here with you on my first blogpost!

So, as is obvious, I will be in Rome sooner or later.

I had started a blog for that on Travelpod, but I hereby declare Travelpod lousy. HELLOHO WELCOME TO THE AGE OF ACCESSIBILITY!

So, I’ll repost the two things I have posted on Travelpod here.

Good day to you all!

I’m so happy!
AHA! Happy go lucky me!
I just go my way,
living everyday!
I don’t worry!
Worrying don’t agree,
Things that bother you,
never bother me!
Things that bother you,
never bother me!