Still Freezing in Florence

I know that you all are freezing back on the east coast but at least you have warmth inside of your house or apartment. It is not like that in Florence, we are seriously always cold from the time we wake up to the time we go to bed. It is winter inside of our apartment. :( Oh, well.. just something we have to get used to. This morning.. we woke up extra early because we had to find a copy store to make copies of every single page of our passport... we wandered for an hour and Emily kept telling me to get back on to the route to school and follow the map but I insisted we just keep walking aimlessly and I knew eventually we would find a copy store and sure enough we did after two miles of walking. We then had to go to school for our first Immigration meeting where we had to fill out like a five page form with precise information for our permit of stay. The process was very complicated and we had to photocopy all our acceptance letters, insurance information, and all of our passport. I had the passport completed but I did not have all the other information so I had to walk a block to an Internet Train (which is an Internet Cafe where you just basically pay to use the Internet for a set amount of time) but they also had photocopy machines. I walked back to the school but come to find out I still did not have all of the papers, so I had to walk back to the Internet Train to photocopy more pages. It is all so complicated and a long process but I know it's probably not as long as what it would be like immigrating into the United States. For lunch we went to Caffe Verdi which just a small panino shop (or panini in the U.S.) but it's different than a panini in the sandwich because a panino is basically just a sandwich shop. It was so delicious, well actually all the food in Italy is so yummy. We then went to an Electronic store to buy a hair dryer because American hair dryers do just not get along well with European electricity. However, the store will buy back the hair dryer at the end of our stay for about 40-50% of what we paid. The store was really neat and had a lot of different lights. Emily says it's her new favorite store. After this, we went back to rest for a few minutes but then proceeded on a walking tour around and to see all our different schools and where other important information is located. Proceeding the walking tour we went to Space Club (Discoteque) where they had free drinks, appetizers, and dinner for our Welcome Party for all the students attending FUA and Apicius. It was pretty fun but everyone is still starting to get to know each other so still really cliquey. We had earlier received a Facebook invitation to Twenty One, another club in town but so did all the other 4,000 American students studying in Florence so the club was so packed and overcrowded, we mingled for awhile but could just not handle the claustrophobia after awhile. We made the mile walk back to our apartment in the rain :(... and our feet are dying.. Emily had a pedometer on today and it said they we walked 14 miles!!! Florence is an amazing city though so it's totally worth it.