New ISC!!

I also need to tell you all about my Italian Student Companion Situation! So I have briefly explained to you a few instances of my ISC's insanity. Well basically the straw that broke the camel's back was when Flavia flipped out on my roommate Katy over defrosted chicken to the point where she felt physically threatened and called the IES emergency hotline (hahah funny in hindsight). "The chicken insident occurred tuesday Feb 17 and we met with the IES coordinatiors the next day to explain our situation. Below is the list of grievances we supplied them:

List of Greivances

1. Incident with Katy’s chicken versus Flavia’s chicken
2. Planned event an online facebook group with over 100 invitations at our apartment for her birthday and cannot bring our own friends unless they “bring food, alcohol, or presents for her birthday”
3. Never asked our permission or if we would be ok with this
-Liz, Anndel, and Katy will be out of town
-Jessie will be alone with at least thirty strangers in the house
4. Friends smoking in living room one afternoon
-Didn’t know these three Italian men and none of them spoke English
5. Dinner date with her boyfriend
-Liz and Anndel had to go to Vincenzo’s house to cook dinner because we weren’t allowed to use our kitchen or living room
-Jessie and Katy ate out on their way home from school
-We had our first Italian quiz the next afternoon and couldn’t study for it at our house because they were loud and using the living room
6. Incident with Liz and water on bathroom floor (What the fuck? I just cleaned the bathroom!)
7. Incident with Anndel and bags on table
8. Incident with Anndel and laughing at her deadly allergies
9. Wakes up everyday, hungover at noon
10. Comes in at night very late (around 4-5 am), but gets very angry and confrontational if we are late and make any noise
11. Boyfriend over all the time—smokes out of living room window
12. Always on the internet and completely ignores our requests to use the internet and communicate briefly with friends and family—even leaves her computer on and connected to the internet when she leaves the house
-We all respect each other’s time as much as we can and will sign off from the internet so that others can get on
-Whines and becomes hostile (as in, What the fuck, why can’t I get on?) when she is unable to use the internet
13. She informed us that she had driven 2 other IES students in her car from the grocery store
14. Keeps the heat on all the time even though we’re all extremely hot. We have also informed her that we want to be conserving energy so that we’re not charged extra.
-We try to open the windows but she either tells us to close them or closes them herself
15. We do not feel comfortable with her alone in our apartment with our things
-We know of times that she has moved our things into or around our room, despite the fact that we’re not allowed in her room
16. Inappropriate conversation topics (i.e. past sexual experiences and drug abuse)


We basically feel as if Flavia thinks that she is allowing us to live in her apartment and use her things, not that we are all sharing an apartment and its respective duties together. She makes no attempt to acclimate to the way in which we live and go about things, but expects us to cater to all of her feelings, desires, and priorities.

Yeah so anyways when we originally had our meeting with IES they acted as if they weren't even taking us seriously and we were just whining or something, but when we returned home that afternoon Flavia was packing her things and moving out. YAY Ding Dong Flavia's gone! So we were isc-less for the weekend even though me and Anndel weren't there to bask in the glory. However we were infomed that we would receive a new isc the monday we returned :(. The good news is that our new isc Sylvia is really nice, super sweet, shy, way more mature, and well... not a psycopath! So far so good... We'll see how she works out.

P.S. I hate IES!!! It seems like they really could care less about us and their only concern is to be a disiplinarian when we are all 20-21 years old and have lived in apartments on our own before. When we were in Switzerland we got an email saying that we had to meet with IES over a noise complaint that had been reported. Basically we have old neighbors and live in a nice part of town so any noise we make is a "disturbance." We are really well behaved and the building is so old that just unlocking your door echos and clunks absurdly loud. They told us that our shoes clinking on the hallway floor was an issue!! I was like what do u want us to do?? Bring slippers out with us at night?? We're basically a scape goat and they couldn't give us one single incident of when we were loud. The landlord just said that it had been an issue. They told us that if we come home late we cant move furnature, we have to take off our shoes or somehow make them silent, and not make any noise while in out apartment because the people below us can hear... lol.... We all were like ummmm ok so basically... we can't do anything... hopefully it wont be an issue in the future.

Anywho... other than that everything is great and I'm still loving it here. I can't wait for Jon, Anda, Chris, and Doug to come visit!!
Ciao!!