---
title: "Salve Roma!"
date: "2008-02-05"
summary: "I arrive in Rome after delays and a missed connection, and find my apartment."
topics: "aromanspring, travel"
url: "https://stitcom.be/writing/2008-02-05-salve-roma"
author: "Stephen Titcombe"
---

# Salve Roma!

I arrive in Rome after delays and a missed connection, and find my apartment.

*Originally posted on my Tumblr travel blog, A Roman Spring with IES, in 2008.*

I have arrived in Rome! It has been a long trip, but I am finally here. Continual delays and cancellations had impeded my plans. It started in Minneapolis where we were delayed because of weather in Chicago. It was looking as if I was going to miss my flight out to Frankfurt, but then it was also delayed, so I was able to make it. Then, we sat on the runway for a good hour and a half for “de-icing” the plane, which ensured that I missed my flight from Frankfurt to Rome.

No worries, I was able to reschedule for a later flight and landed in Rome around 530pm Monday afternoon. A group of us IES students met up with the IES coordinators and sent us out to our housing locations.

I was put in a cab with another student from my school. That was a very akward ride. Unfortunetaly, the driver knew no english. To make things worse, I paid a full fare amount when I was splitting the cost with another student. He ended up succedding in getting half fare from her, and full fare from me. I didn’t realize it until later. Oops.

It was kinda hard to find my apartment because I am not located on a drivable street. So I was dropped off and told it was up the pedestrian street somewhere. I eventually found it, and was let in. I meet my some of my roommates; the italian companion, his name is Valerio, and an American from Penn State named Dave. They are both really nice guys and fun to talk to.

The funny part is that we were supposed to have 5 guys total between 3 rooms (1 room for the italian and the other 2 split between the Americans). However, it turns out that one of them was moved to another apartment, and the other one just didn’t show up. After finding a friend of his on the trip, Dave told me that our other roommate was not coming. So, we each have our own room. Pretty sweet!

In the next post I will talk about the orientation experience that took us out of the heart of Rome to the capital city of the province of Umbria, named Perugia. Until then, Ciao!