Scotty from Scotland and a New Adventure.

I wish the entire world could know Scotty from Scotland. Turns out, most of them do. Scotty finds out I moved to Italy and hooks me up with some mormon friends of his that live here. So day 3 of being in Italy and I'm already going out on my own little excursion. I knew it would be interesting, knowing that I don't know any Italian and most Italians claim they speak fluent English but clearly don't. So I start practicing ALL day....."Comé ti chiami? Comé ti chiami? Mi chiamo Stacey, piacere." I was getting good. Im pretty sure our house keeper thought I lost my mind.

My friend Jonathan was introduced to me through Scotty. Jonathan lives on the opposite side of Rome as I, so he kindly arranges a ride for me with his friend Davide. I have to admit I was pretty nervous getting into the car. I mean, I trusted Scotty's judgement, i was more nervous about the communication part.

 When I got in the car it was packed full of Italian boys. And just so you know, yes I asked what their names were and yes, I completely butchered it! I froze in mid sentence "Comé ti ch.....chi......." But thank goodness there was one other girl in the car and she was the only one who could speak English, that poor thing was everyone's translator. But surprisingly those boys dove right in, they made me feel right at home and loved me right off the bat. Rome really is the world's capital of love, everyone was incredibly nice.

We went and got some Italian pizza, arm wrestled (explanation: after the boys were done talking about muscles, i decided to one up them by showing mine off, they couldn't have that) and after my cute translator left the boys took me on a tour around Rome, even though it's the coldest time of year for them (which is like spring time for you Utahns). They were all the sweetest things! I thought Italian boys were just full of charms and gushie meaningless words but these guys were talking to me one after the other, sincerely getting to know me, and me them. It ended up being the best night so far.