Blog post #1: Wow. I feel like that’s the best way to start my post, the word that best summarizes my first 48 hours of this trip. I thought that I was getting better at managing emotional ups and downs, but yesterday certainly tested my limits and I’m not quite sure I handled it well. There were a few tears, that’s for sure, but after having been awake for about 36 hours and then finding out that you had just ridden a tram for a half hour in the wrong direction, the tram driver ask you where you were headed and request that you sit by him so that he can point out the correct stop, I felt helpless and inept, incompetent when it comes to getting around foreign places. That on top of my two hours searching frantically for the USA booth at Parco Valentino, to no avail. That’s actually my first task today, after getting a wifi password and asking some more questions about the delegate shuttle bus. It’s hard to say what the best moment of my day was yesterday: