Racism on the Circumvesuviana and more weirdness
Today is a weird day man. Tomorrow I will run a little even though my foot still hurts. But I need to clear my head, at the very least. I woke up to two emails from my roommate. One to the school in general and one to me. He packed up all his stuff and left. I thought he was going for the weekend, but he decided to take off. I’m all shocked about it. It’s been an odd feeling all day.
Then I had to go in and get paid and talk to my boss. I didn’t have any answers for him, I was just as surprised as he was.
My boss offered me a position for next year as well, and we talked a bit about that, told me to think it over and give him an answer over the next 10 days or so. I like the people, just the place is a mess. There’s nothing that can be done about it really. Most of it is attitude, and simple infrastructure issues. Until the Italian government pays to modernize the infrastructure things won’t change around here. That and the attitude of the people in the streets is a bit of an annoyance. So I will think it over and I guess in 10 days or so I’ll have a big announcement for all of you!
Speaking of attitude, I got on the Circumvesuviana (local metro around Vesuvius), and there were conductors on there checking tickets. But they were only checking some tickets. I noticed they gave the most scrutiny to the guys who were clearly not “Italian”. So the Arab and African guys, the Romani guys, they asked them for tickets. They didn’t bother me. That was kind of upsetting. It was really upsetting actually, it’s just tiring to see the same crap everywhere.
Here’s some musical goodness for your day, needless to say the hijynx on the Circumvesuviana did not help this area’s case in keeping me:
Have fun, keep running, and remember; if Gil can run then so can you!
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