Torino at last

After being awake for over 32 consecutive hours it is time for bed. I am exhausted. It’s starting to hit me now that this is where I will live for the next 4 months! I have already met some awesome people and enjoyed wonderful food. The flight was long but manageable, especially because all alcohol was free :). On the plane I sat with 5 other Torino students and got to know them all very well. After landing in Frankfurt we walked to terminal B where we found about 20 Torino students staring at us. At first it was a bit akward, but we soon began to chat. It looks like it is going to be a very solid group that I am going to have a ton of fun with. All in all there are about 50 of us.

We had a 2 hour layover in Frankfurt before boarding a short flight to Torino. We met up with the program directors and they seem awesome! We toured the city by foot then had an amazing dinner. After dinner we took a walk and stopped by a Scottish pub. We grabbed a beer, watched some soccer then headed back for the night to our hotel, Hotel Roma. Ironically enough I am rooming with a fellow Theta Chi, Jared, from Chico. On the way back we saw some photographers taking pictures of this one car, looks to be a concept mustang (see below for pictures). I have also uploaded some photos of the more beautiful places I’ve seen so far. Whoops, we just blew out the electricity in our room, apparently too many appliances running at once. Okay Management came up and fixed it, no biggie. I have also uploaded some pictures of some beautiful sights around Torino. I think I’m going to create a photobucket to make it easier for everyone to see all my photos.

I will be moving into my room tomorrow and have met all but one of my roommates. It is a 2 bedroom apartment, shared between 4 guys located in downtown Torino! It takes about 40 minutes to get to school via subway and bus. Apparently a supermarket is located across the street, which will make shopping super convenient and hopefully keep me on budget. I am very quickly learning how expensive Europe is for everything! People are already planning about trips they are looking to make and we will hopefully start booking hostels and travel arrangements this week. Places I know I want to go are: England/Dublin, Paris, Prague, and Amsterdam…just to name a few.

Love you all,

Coop

Beautiful Architecture: Rich peoples church on left, poor people on right



Statue



Beautiful Car


Another Angle


From Frankfurt airport...