Rome Diarys

Well we havent gone on holiday as Alex got a bladder infection and is on tablets for a few days, he feels ill so we stay in all day watching tv or playing on the computer, i feel like a caged animal, i want to be outside doing something.......i hope he feels more motivated over the next few days.

Hes been really grumpy as well while hes ill and a bit snappy with me and i hate it. I know he doesnt feel well and i have tried my best to make hm feel better but nothing has worked. I just feel tired, really down and a bit weepy i was really looked forwards to are break away and now were not going. Infact we are doing nothing but staying home all the time. Add Alex's bad mood and i feel like going back to England for a while, i really do.

At last were on holiday!! We had been planning to go to the house in the Alps for 3 weeks but have decided to just have a week/10 days there and try and go for a week in Tuscany as well and the last week just stay here in Roma.

Its still hot here and my pot plants have finally decided to flower although i have to water them everyday as they wilt in this weather. Next year im just buying them from the flower man already flowering and green as its taken months for them to get this far!!

We had the blind for the balcony in the bedroom fixed today as the old wooden one was broken so we have a brand new plastic brown one it was interesting to watch them man working on it and it was done within 30mins!

My italian course has finally finished and i have signed up for the one in October which is for a bit more advanced Italian. Everyone is saying im speaking more Italian and i feel more confident speaking it and understanding it now when i go out, its not scary anymore. Its weird how you can suddenly understand it and begin to speak it quicker without thinking about it.

Im staying in touch with a group of other girls from the course and we have exchanged emails, mbl numbers and were all going to meet up for lunch and stay in contact which is really nice!

I suddenly realised yesterday i dont feel homesick anymore i rarely get the bouts of homesickness as well, i have finally settled down here. Yes i miss some of the food but Roma really feels like home now. I know when i visit my parents i will really miss italy and Alex very much.

I have been dying to get my hands on some Sunpat peanut butter but they dont seem to have it here in Rome. I have been told you can buy it in the giant supermarkets and theres a possible place in central Rome which sells international foods so hopefully i will be able to get some.

Its funny the foods you can and can't get here, they have Bugerking and Macdonalds, but no KFC or Pizza huts. There was even a Subway until it closed down and we havent seen another one. I used to eat alot of chicken in London and i think in the last 5 months i have had chicken 4 times.

I still have cravings for foods i can only seem to get in England like hinez tomato soup, stage chili, fish & chips,coldslaw....things like that. Been trying to get my parents to send me some things in the post but they dont seem to want to. The things i want are in plastic containers so theres no fear of them breaking, if i keep asking im sure eventually they will send them. Or the next time i visit them im going to stock up and bring a load of things back with me!

I really want to make a sheppherds pie to see what Alex makes of it as he's never had it before and i think he will like it. I will be stocking up on a few things for sure when we go back to the giant supermarket so i have them spare in the cupboard and freezer

We found somewhere to buy a toast as well on the weekend so in the near future hopefully we will be getting one and i will be able to make toast, toasted sandwiches etc. Hmmmmmm beans on TOAST!!!

Oh for a jacket potato with beans and coldslaw!!! Im going to have to make my own! they dont have coldslaw here if i mix mayo, carrots, onion, cabbage togeather than that should be it!

I have a nice tan at the moment from wandering to and from my course everyday which looks really nice! I have two weeks left off the italian course which i have really enjoyed, im hoping to do the next one which starts Sept or Oct which will be italian conversation.

Were going on holiday to the Alps in 3 weeks time im really excited can't wait to get away! although its a 7 hour drive from Roma.

I run out of my pill in August so Alex bought me another version of the pill which is common here in italy but different from the UK one i am used to.It supresses different hormones in the body so im going to take a break between the old and new one as i dont want to screw my body up.

My sisters going to send me a couple of tops i bought from ebay that went to there house, i need a few more as its so hot here at the moment!

There are bugs in the tree's here in Rome which make a weird loud sound i have heard them before when i went to Greece but theres not so many here.

I have been having a mosquito problem as well! because its so hot we had all the windows open at night and i get bitten like crazy! Alex seems to be amunne to them and finds it amusing that i seem to taste nice to them. The thing is the bites they leave are red and really painful for at least 2 days afterwards! There driving me crazy!! We started having the aircon on at night which was better but its not so hot at night anymore so again we started with the windows open and this morning i found a bite on my finger! arrgghhh i hate them!!