Scusi, c'e un Bango?

Scusi, c'e un Bango? meaning, excuse me is there a toilet here?

It's almost been a week here in Rome and I think that this language is starting to come to me a little bit more, it helps having a background in Spanish for SOME of the Italian but other wise it's really confusing.  For example, when you are counting in Italian 2 in spanish is DOS, 2 in Italian is DUE (Doowe) 3 in Spanish Thres, 3 in Italian is Tre.  There are some similarities and some that can actually screw me up cause of it.
But almost forcing yourself to learn the language just to survive here is helping a little bit.  I really want to learn this language though, especially when we pissed our neighbor off really bad the other night and he was screaming at Aaron and I.  All I could do was laugh and then he made a first and put it in Aaron and I's face and thats when we puffed our chests and he soon realized what was going on and left.  That's how we do it in USA!
Today was also the 2nd day of classes, I thought for sure that this food and wine class was going to be fun and really interesting... It's not terrible but you know the books on tape and the guy?  He typically has a really soft almost annoying voice? Like he knows everything in the world, you can just picture a white headed man, wearing small rounded glasses, probably smoking a old school tobacco pipe, in a green sports jacket with a colored dress shirt under neath that is tainted with stains from whisky.... Well that guy is my teacher and he literally put me to sleep today in class... It sounds like once we start going to markets and such it will be a lot more fun, plus we have to make a wine journal so when I come back to the states I'll be a wine champ!

Everyone in this program is either from Penn or UA, there is one girl who goes to WSU and I'm of course the only person here who goes to BSU or even knows where or what Idaho is...
I'm excited for this weekend, I guess there's a huge event going on in Switzerland up in the Alps and a lot of people we know are going to it, I was planning on going there and skiing next weekend but I think if everyone is going now, splitting a hotel room will help out a lot for costs of renting all my ski gear :(
Today was also the gloomiest and coldest day since we've been here and I think it might rain on thursday or friday?? Hopefully I won't be here for either day.
But it's time to make some Italian flash cards and practice. vamos!