This past weekend, I went to Sicily with my International Marketing class. Patania took up our entire weekend. We left at 4:45 p.m. on Thursday afternoon and returned at 9:30 p.m. last night. I had one of the best weekends ever, though. I completely do not mind having my weekend stolen by Patania.
We took a rented bus to Fiumicino airport. I have not been at that airport since arriving in Italy over a month ago. Twenty of us had to get our tickets and go through security. I have never been through a more unorganized security line than the one at Fiumicino. There were no distinct line, and one "scanner" for every two "lines." Eventually, we all went through security and arrived at our gate. Patania had a tendency to just let us fend for ourselves. Although it is great he assumes we can handle ourselves, we would have benefited from having some direction from him.
We eventually boarded the plane for an hour and 50 minute flight into Catania in Sicily. We quickly got our luggage and took a bus to our hotel. We were regular American students and stayed in a Best Western. I sort of wish we had stayed in a Sicilian hotel so we could experience something other than the standardized American hotel.
A very large group of us went out looking for a restaurant to eat at. It was pretty late so we were looking for places that still were serving dinner and not focusing on drinks. We eventually had to split up because there were so many of us. A group of us found this small restaurant to eat at. We were served house wine out of a water bottle (sketchy). I ordered spicy pasta because I am dying without spicy food here. Since we had gotten to Catania so late, it was around midnight by the time we were finished with dinner. We went back to the hotel to sleep. It was a relaxing first night.
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