Ponte Tresa Market

I am trying to figure out how to phrase this without scaring my mom to death, but there is no way! Last night while I was all cozied up in bed, one of the scariest things happened! Just know, everything is a-okay now and an integral part of this story is in our dorm, you can buzz people into the front door and then we have doorbell type things on each of our doors. At 3:30 in the morning, I was woken up by a group of Franklin students yelling and having fun outside my window.. Nothing new its a Friday night right? So then around 5:00 I heard my door buzz and I am assuming it was the buzzer from outside so someone could get in the building. I ignored it and kept laying in bed. About 3 minutes later the same quick buzz. Annoying. So I tried to fall back asleep assuming whoever was buzzing either got in through someone else, or had given up. False Assumption. They were now at my door knocking! I decided that I was going to take the "pretend I'm asleep approach" and they will go away so I still didn't do anything but try to fall back asleep. And then the knocking and doorbell ringing started going off every 1 or 2 minutes and the knocking turned into pounding and the ringing turned into a continuous loud obnoxious buzzing. This lasted until 5:15 when I finally decided to get up and see what was happening because I had decided that it was one of my friends that was locked out. Nope- wrong again. Two huge (6'4'ish) scary looking black dudes were standing there.. Not a single person of that description goes to Franklin so I got freaked out and just started cussing at them like "What are you doing" "Who are you" blah blah blah. Turns out they were looking for a girl named Erin who used to live in either my room or the one above me last year and they thought she would still be there. I assured them that I was not Erin, I did not know an Erin and they needed to get out of the building right away! They left without problems, I emailed the RA, and I was so thankful it ended easily and nothing else happened. I talked to my friends upstairs this morning and the same people were up there knocking on their door, but Claire did the smart thing and just talked through the door.. Definitely a dumb mistake on my part! But someone else told me he knows the guys that were pounding on my door through Erin because they were always here last year.. Still not okay!

Now onto better things! We went to Ponte Tresa market today in Italy. It was only a 20 minute train ride and right across the border. When you think of classic farmers market, this was it! Everything was so cheap and delicious and the place was giant!

One of the vendors we went to, his deal was 1 chilo for 1 euro! I got a chilo of nectorines (about 6) pears (about 5) and apples (about 4) for 3 euros! So cheap and so fresh and delicious! No wonder it was such a popular place to be. 

My bag of goodies that was 2 euros. Then we tried out the cheese- best cheese in the world, got some bread that was as big as our heads for 3 euros and I got some dried mangos and bananas! 

Not only was all of the food really cheap, but wine was 10 euros for 3 large bottles! Needless to say, we bought some of that to split too! On our way back we stopped at a grocery store just to pick up a couple last things and I got a thing of crackers that is usually 6 francs in Lugano for 1.5 euro in Italy. I don't know why Lugano has to be so expensive but it is really getting annoying! Tonight I'm going out for a bit for someones birthday, but first we are having eggplant parmesan and then I need to do some more homework! Tomorrow I will charge my camera so I can actually take pictures when we take a boat over to Gondria and explore the little town on the other side of Lake Lugano! 

And by the way, I learned my lesson about not opening the door at wee hours of the night and our RA sent out a message to everyone telling them to make sure they pick up the phone and see who is buzzing in from the outside before letting them in!