Day 30-33

I spent this morning lazing around in bed and watching TV - I have three go-to channels; one for music, one for American shows and films that I can change the audio on, and one for Nickelodeon programmes in Italian. None of which are fab, but they're better than nothing and are good for background sound when I'm on my own with a cold!
Speaking of being on my own *holding back from singing Les Mis*, this weekend was my first one home alone. It was very nice knowing that I didn't have to be back for anything - Clare and I were joking that my "Italian phone" is a bit like a doctor's pager, in that when it rings I know I have to be somewhere soon! You can probably guess who I've spent my weekend with can't you? I mean, in fairness, her family were away too, and Danielle and Maddie had swanned off to Paris so we had to do something together! It's not like we spent most of Friday together or anything...we did have the best 11am gelato on Friday though. I had hazelnut, pistachio, and marscapone with biscuit topped with coffee cream and a chocolate wafer in a sugar waffle cone filled with dark chocolate. Yes, it was as incredible as it sounds! We did a small grocery shop (I say small, it filled two bags and my arms nearly dropped off during the 20min walk back!) and went back to hers to see Fluffy and Tiger and watch part of Divergent and eat white pizza. Dropped M off at the train station in the evening with a previous au pair for company and then walked back to the apartment in a state of total happiness- the sun was setting but it was raining really heavily and I was walking through some very beautiful back streets. It was rather perfect! I then finished my night with a Skype sesh with my SERFY family and popcorn and coke.
On Saturday Clare and I explored the back streets by the Colosseum and waited around an hour outside a vintage shop for it to open, spending our time looking at the pictures on each other's phones and taking selfies. The wait was worth it though, I bought a great oversized jumper from there! We had smiley faces, red pepper, salad and custard for tea and then went out and sat at SS Meetup for a while people watching and rejecting drinks and tat from far too many blokes. Honestly, I'm going to come home being so mean to male strangers!
Clare came with me to church yesterday which was lovely, and the German au pair was there again so we all sat next to each other. The sermon was taken from Hebrews 9:1-10 and was to do with Yom Kippur/Atonement. We sung To God be the Glory, What a Friend We Have in Jesus, Take my Life and Let it Be, and The Wonderful Cross (When I Survey but with an added bit) so a pretty good week hymn-wise! We had pizza twice yesterday...there's a really good cheap pizza place by the Pantheon that we're now recognised at, and we got lost last night and found another place that sells it according to weight and size rather than per slice, and that made a great addition to us finding our way back (I actually used a compass to figure out which way to go!). I also discovered that supermarkets close at 9; B and G had asked if I could get milk, and I left it until we were nearly home and only had mintues to spare - lesson learnt!
Ciao!