Exploration

That first night and early the next day, before I met up with the rest of the arriving class, I explored the city. So when everyone else arrived, I was happy to be the resident GPS until they got their bearings. While exploring, I learned some important stuff. I present to you a list.

IMPORTANT STUFF

• The location of a great restaurant with cute waiters close to the hotel

• How to get to Piazza Maggiore

• The names of some streets

• What the *correct* corner looked like - when you wanted to find a particular shopping strip without a street sign

• How to cross the street (spoiler, carefully)

• To look up directions while connected to wifi, because the wifi scattered around the city didn't like my phone

• How to appear confident when really I had no idea where I was

• That clowns take breaks, too

• That the ukulele and a pretty voice will make people stop in their tracks

• That I like taking pictures of doorways

• That music is everywhere

• That underground art collections may be larger on the inside than on the outside. Kind of like a TARDIS of art.