umbrella beatings and fruit.

as andrea and i were walking to class today, we stopped at the market so i could buy some fruit. we saw some interesting things and decided to try something new, so andrea bought a loti. it felt like a tomato on the outside, looked like a mango on the inside, tasted like a mango with cinnamon, then started to taste like a pumpkin as we got to the center and even had seeds, which looked like pumpkin seeds. it was delicious! we got six more weeks to try new stuff.

i should add that i have some great umbrella beating skills i was unaware of. i guess rome is good for something. as andrea and i were spending sunday morning shopping in a market, before church, we were followed by an italian man around our age. he did not leave us the whole time we were at the market, after asking him to leave us alone, asking others to get him away from us and after beating him with my umbrella. he went so far as to follow us out of the market, get on and off the bus we were on, until finally an american woman came and asked if we needed help. she had witnessed his following and took us over to the police where she warned him we would be reporting him. sadly i had to throw my umbrella away and share andrea's in the pooring rain.