Farewell

Well as cities go this one has nice curves... Like the curves of the stairs moving up the little hill just next to the house where we used to have so many parties... Used to, I say, since the guy Pascal who organized these feasts during the last four months will be out of town permanently by this friday. And here we arrive to one of the other essential things about Perugia. People are mostly here temporarily. This busy exchange town has it's extremely fluctuating student population. Every few months new exchange students come and go. Some light up the nightlife like a shooting star and then quickly fade away, some leave their marks behind, some of them are just pretty drunk all the time, and some even get stuck here for years. Three big institutions suck them up and then spit them out. The normal university (Universitá degli studi) has a huge Erasmus-student population mostly from European countries. The foreigners university (Universitá degli Stranieri) has people from all around the world, eager or not so eagar to be taught the misteries of the Italian language. And there is the Umbra institute  with it's 3 month rotation of Americans, a mostly female population, roaming free all-around town. At the end of february, the end of the first semester a lot of people are leaving. And hell: we'll miss you guys, yet still, life goes on.