Come si va....?

(I wrote this a few days ago but forgot to post it SO SUE ME)

After sleeping our first night in our apartment with no sheets, blankets or pillows, my roommate and I decided that a trip to IKEA was necessary. Sounds simple enough, no? Sure, just follow these easy steps and you are good to go!

1. ·      Go to the train station and wait in line for twenty minutes only to realize that you are at the bus station.
2. ·      Walk to the actual train station, wait in line, only to be told that there is no train to IKEA but a bus.
3. ·      Walk to the described bus stop and call your program coordinator for help. Find out that the bus is blue, says IKEA and will be there in twenty minutes. So you wait twenty minutes, then thirty minutes, then almost an hour.
4. ·      Give up and get a taxi
5. ·      Wind your way through a GIGANTIC IKEA and be absolutely mesmerized by the overwhelming number of baskets and drawer knobs.
6. ·      Check out and walk towards the door to see that it is pouring rain so you call for a cab again. Then call another cab because the first one hung up on you. Then call another cab because the second one put you on hold and then hung up on you. Call a fourth cab because, honestly I don’t remember how many times we tried calling for a cab but it was a lot.
7. ·      Wait for “12” minutes that turns into thirty minutes very quickly. Call the cab company back and get the person with the strongest accent you have ever heard in your life that you think tells you it’s on its way. It’s not.
8. ·      After all this waiting the van (it was a van not a bus, dammnit!) arrives so you pay 3 Euro and take that and try to beat your roommate’s high score on Snake on the ride home.
9.        Come home to your apartment and find the elevator to be broken so you walk up 5 flights of stairs. 

 The whole point of sharing this is that this was my first "oh my goodness I am in a foreign country and don't understand what is going on" adventure and I survived it! After all that, I have a beautiful and comfortable bed and could not be happier about that. But I will never look at IKEA the same way again…..