Wow, it's already, the second day in Rome, but it feels like we have been here for a week. We continue to suffer from jetlag and the lack of sleep the night before wiped us out. The first day seemed like an eternity. We were on a quest the first night to find teens our age so we could hang out with them. But to our surprise, we found out that all Rome was is a big circle. No matter were you go, if you keep on making the right turns you will find yourself back where you started. So our mission the next day was to find teenagers who we can hang out with. Besides, I had to stay out of the hotel for a little while. In attempt to scare Nicole (HarlemLive's editor in chief) in the hallway or our hotel, I scared this other lady who got furious and because she didn't understand English she didn't hear me apologizing to her countless times. So I ran back to my room changed my shirt and left the hotel for some hours. She began to complain downstairs and waited at my room for sometime with her family then left.

The thing that we have to adjust to the most is the food. When we went for breakfast we where excepting some bagels with cream cheese and jelly, muffins, juice, tea and some hot chocolate. But it wasn't what we excepted. We had a glazed type croissant, biscuit type bread, coffee, tea, juice, and hot chocolate. Justin (HarlemLive's cartoonist) was very upset because he didn't have a good home cooked meal in days in this Italian Continental breakfast didn't help his cause. Everyone else felt that the food was okay. I was think it was like jail here because all we seem to eat is bread and water. I thought that I might gain some weight for this ten days here but it looks like I'm most likely to lose some weight.

Normally we're not the foreigners and we have a hard time understanding other people's language but know they have a hard time understanding our language. We have to communicate with them somehow to explain our website to them at the exhibition they held. There were all types of projects there and people from all over the world. Our project is the best (in my humble opinion) anyway but it was very interesting meeting with all these people who spoke little or no English and I was still able hold a conversation with them about HarlemLive. They would all ways ask you to slow down so they can understand or we would have to talk to the one out of the group who new the most English and they would translate to the others in the group. They really like the website and were asking all sorts of questions.

This one guy ask me if it was safe to walk the streets in Harlem at night because he never has been to the United States and was going to there soon. I had to explain to him that that is a myth people say about all of New York City and it is very safe to walk the streets at night because there are a lot of people outside at night and the only thing you have to do is be very observant of your surroundings.

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