Location: Collegio di Milano, in my air-conditioned room. Hell. Yes.
I finally figured out how to use the air conditioning, so I'm gonna take this opportunity to do some bloggage.
Orientation was... really cool. I met a whole bunch of new people, including four other Santa Clarans. Surprise! But they're a good bunch...
It was at a "farm hostel". In other words, our meetings and dinners had a very rustic feel to it due to the random farm implements hung up on the walls, as well as old sewing machines in every lobby. Oh, and I can't forget the wagon wheels strategically placed every so often.
There was also a beautiful, hotel-like pool with a diving board. Needless to say, our breaks generally consisted of lying out poolside in various stages of undress. But I managed to avoid wearing the speedo, although it was damn tempting.
We took walks through the vineyards as well, and some of the girls decided to sample wine-grapes. Most of them weren't impressed. We "frolicked and romped" through every vineyard we could find, however, because it was exciting for most of us. I've never frolicked through a vineyard. Cherry farm, yes, but never a vineyard.
Orientation itself was pretty boring. A whole lot of yapping and reading, some of which I'm sure was important but that I probably missed.
As soon as we drove back to the city, they made the collegio kids grab their stuff and hop right back on the (special) bus. Like everything else in Milan, the Collegio was fugly on the outside, and very nice on the inside. So check this... the dorms are completely surrounded by a fence. You have to ring a bell on the fence so the doorman will let you in. You check your key with the doorman when you leave and retrieve it when you return. There's a foosball table, a ping-pong table, a chessboard, and a huge home theater system downstairs in the various lobbies, and an extremely nice gym.
I'm starting to like this gig... we even got invited to play some calcio with the Italians. It will be interesting to get my ass handed to me in a foreign country.
As soon as we drove back to the city, they made the collegio kids grab their stuff and hop right back on the (special) bus. Like everything else in Milan, the Collegio was fugly on the outside, and very nice on the inside. So check this... the dorms are completely surrounded by a fence. You have to ring a bell on the fence so the doorman will let you in. You check your key with the doorman when you leave and retrieve it when you return. There's a foosball table, a ping-pong table, a chessboard, and a huge home theater system downstairs in the various lobbies, and an extremely nice gym.
I'm starting to like this gig... we even got invited to play some calcio with the Italians. It will be interesting to get my ass handed to me in a foreign country.
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