Here are some pictures I took around town . This is a great place to spend a month, and it is not crowded here now. It is hot in the afternoon, but cool in the morning and in the evening.
It is also interesting to live a typical Italian life style. After class we have lunch and by the time we are finished the entire town is closed. Almost nothing is open between 2 and 5, so we come home, relax, and do our homework. We have no internet connection in our apartment (and no oven, no toaster, and no washer/dryer and no garbage disposal either--and 2 minutes of hot water per shower), so sometimes we go back to school to use the wireless there. Around 7 we go out and do errands (not much shopping yet, but I am weakening) and enjoy walking around, and dinner is never started before 8:30 or 9. Most people eat around 9 or 9:30. The town stays up way later then I do—I come home after dinner and try and review for the next day before I pass out. Liz often stays out when I come home. It takes some getting used to—for example, our clothes are now trapped in the laundry because we can’t seem to get there to pick them up when it is open. We can’t find a good time for gelato either on this schedule, after lunch they are closed and after dinner it is too late and we are full.
We think our apartment is a pretty standard middle class Italian home. It is way different than anything I have ever lived in. Besides it lacking some very key items, we also have to turn on the hot water heater with a switch and light the stove with a lighter. There are no closets, only a small armoir in each of the bedrooms. The balcony off our living room is completely visible to neighbors, and people have conversations with their neighbors from balcony to balcony. Laundry is always hanging everywhere, here off the balconies and elsewhere in Sorrento. It is clearly a different kind of life style, but we are doing OK.
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