WOW!

I'm just a "little" overwhelmed.

Wow. My host doesn't speak any English and they put me in Level 2 for my first class. Thankfully I know enough Italian to get the absolute basics of getting around, and by the end of the first day I could understnad my host Maria better than I had in the morning.

I've already found, in school (scuola), that I understand (ho capito) what people are saying (at least I'm able to extrapolate what's going on from the context of the moment), though I lack the skills to appropiately form the sentances to answer back. I'm going to try and go to an intermediate Level 1 class tomorrow, though my Level 2 teacher, Filamento (Filo for short), thinks I could probably struggle through her class and learn more in the three weeks (tre settimani) that I'm here.

Let's skip to the pictures. I just looked at my camera's settings and my pictures from yesterday are too large for Blogger. Take a look here for 9 pictures from my first day in Roma.

More later!