Requesting a challenge, I signed up to live with international students rather than other Umbra participants. I have yet to see fully how this works out. My roommate is a full year student, she has so far very patiently answered my multitude of questions. I hope she doesn't think that I am crazy when I can't open the door for the third time or I run in at eight o'clock to tell her how I managed to successfully light the stove without burning myself. Our other flatmate so far is from China. Her name is Li and through our mutually broken Italian I learned that she is 19 and studying at the Universita per Stranieri. We and miscommunicate more than we get through to each other, but a lot of smiles and the addition of some very useful hand signals gets the main ideas through.
Our apartment is not as homey as some of the others I have seen, but the view makes up for it. Off our balcony (which I look out on from my desk) you can see Perugia as it cascades down the hill. On clear day, which we haven't had since Saturday morning when I took this picture, I can see beyond to the surrounding hills. When I am more adept with the stove and it is a little warmer out it will be a great place for sipping my morning tea.
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