itinerary

Ho ricevuto il mio passaporto stamattina, con il visto!

This morning I got my passport, with my visa! I am that much closer to packing up and leaving, and it's exciting, but yesterday, my friend Carrie texted me from JFK in New York that she was nervous about flying alone for the first time (to China, where she'll be for the next several months). This got me thinking. I'm nervous to fly alone, too. So I plotted exactly what I had to figure out and accomplish on my own from the moment I leave my parent's house until I'm safely at my house in Perugia.

1. Leave Edinburg, presumably with a parent, to be dropped off at a bus stop in Washington, D.C.
2. Catch my bus, arrive at bus stop in New York City, where I have never been without a chaperone.
3. Find Bea, the lovely young lady who is kind enough to take me in for a night.
4. Get to one of the subway stations from which the shuttle to JFK runs. Get on that shuttle!
5. Arrive at JFK. Navigate an airport I've never been to in the busiest city in America, on my own, and catch my flight.
6. 1 hour layover in Dublin! I'm unclear as to whether I'll have to find or recheck baggage. I hope not.
7. Again, navigate an airport I've never been to and catch my flight.
8. Arrive at Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport in Rome. Find my stuff, get to the "Sulga" bus!
9. Arrive in Perugia. Find a taxi. Tell them where I need to go (point to my address on the piece of paper I will be carrying for this exact purpose).
10. Final destination: Via Cialdini 3. Hopefully, meet Cinzia at my front door, so I can get in.

In short, make my way, alone, from D.C. to Perugia, through New York, Dublin, and Rome. This is scary to me.

I've also stumbled across my itinerary for most of my stay! It looks something like this:

• July 1, arrive in Perugia
• July 2, orientation with Cinzia
• July 3-4, free weekend
• July 5-9, first week of classes
• July 10-11, trip to Napoli (Naples), Pompeii, and Capri
• July 12-16, second week of classes
• July 17-18, trip to Venezia (Venice)
• July 19-23, third week of classes
• July 24-25, free weekend, possible trip to Firenze (Florence) or somewhere else nearby
• July 26-27, last days of class and trip to Assisi
• July 28, final exam
• July 29-30, trip to Roma (Rome)
• July 31-August 7, ???