Italy 19/09/2011: It's day!

So here's the first day of Italy, and things are so bright. Today was orientation day, thankfully it was at 2:00pm, which allowed us to sleep in. It also allowed us time to figure out how to walk to school! The orientation was split into two groups, and Simon and I were in the 2pm group. So we had to wait, and what better place to wait at but at a coffee shop! Which was what we initially thought, untill we got our drinks.....

Here's an abysmal cappucino (the only drink I know in Italian at the time). It was a bit gritty, and not very good on flavour....still better than Timmies (wonders how I'll be able to go back to that stuff).

Here's what Simon ordered, and once of our first of many lost in translation moments. We saw Coco in the name and we both thought it was a drink, the waitress twittered some really quick questions in Italian, and we were clueless so we just said "Ci" to everything. And this gritty thick and un appatizing instant chocolate pudding arrived. It was amusing because we initially thought it was going to be hot chocolate or something. Anyhoo,

Here's the main campus of the Polytechnico di Torino on Corsa Abruzzi.

Here's one of the many buses that take student to and from school.

Here's the tram as well.

this is a Barabus Smart Roadster. I wish we could get this thing in Canada. The steering wheel is on the left side, and it's a real looker! *sigh*

Here's the large hill on the way home. It's our landmark to get to our residence, as long as we walk towards it, we'll always be walking towards our residence.

This is a yogurt promo, with someone walking on a non Newtonian fluid....corn starch and water.

Here's the guy attempting to run across the corn syrup! I think I should have jumped in! Btw, it's no Newtonian because when you exert a force on it quickly, its reaction is to solidify and stay still, instead of moving away and splashing like you would expect a fluid to do.