Sunday afternoon was one of the craziest days here in Rome ( and its only been a week!) I try to go out and visit sites and be with the girls, but a lot of the times we get ourselves in bad situations. This one was no exeption. Me and a different group of girls decided that we wanted to go see where they were building the new temple in Rome. We were told by a group of missionaries that we met, that they only have the foundation done so far. They told us to get on a certain bus and to only get off when we see the IKEA. Apparently the temple grounds are behind a tall gate and the only way you can see it is on the second floor through a window in the store. We waited on this bus for an hour and it randomly stopped in the middle of a neighborhood. The bus driver informed us that this was the last stop, and that the bus would only go back to Termini after the new driver came by. I was pretty pooped, so I was all for going back home and trying again the other day. The other girls were determined though, and decided that we would walk until we randomly found the store. We walked forever on the side of a freeway and we were completely lost. It started to get dark and right as we were about to go home, we saw the IKEA. When we finally got close to it we realized that there was no way to get to the store unless we ran across the freeway. So...that is what we did. I wanted to go home but I can't be alone so I had to go with them. When we got to the IKEA it was about 9:30 at night and it was completely dark. We couldnt see anything out of the windows and it was getting frustrating. Me and 3 other girls decided we should go home because we didn't know when the buses would stop running. We walked back the way we came and waited for the bus to show up. We waited for a half an hour and realized that the bus stop sign said nothing about buses showing up on a Sunday. We said a prayer together and decided to run to the next bus stop in case the last bus was running through. There was no bus there either. We waited on the side of the road for an hour and 45 minutes. It was right by a gas station and we had a lot of people honk at us, or roll down their windows and ask us if we knew where we are. It was really scary and me and another girl said we would rather pay for a taxi than wait here and get stuck. As soon as we were about to wave a taxi down, the last bus showed up. It was such a relief! We got on the bus only for 10 minutes, when a guy came into the bus. He was talking really loud and throwing peoples stuff around. He looked completly drunk. He started saying stuff to me and the other girls and it got really scary. He moved further up the bus afterwords and it was such a relief. Before the guy looked like he would pass out, he through a woman out of her seat and sat in it. The bus driver stopped the bus and threw the guys feet off the seat and told him to get off his bus. They started yelling back and forth and the bus driver called the police. The man got mad back and started trying to hit the bus driver and a huge fight started. The woman tried to get in the way and she got kicked a few times by the drunk man.All the men on the bus pushed him out and we had to wait on the side of the road to make sure no other buses would pick up the drunk guy. That made us another hour late coming home. When we finally got to Termini we had to take 2 more buses home. We got on one bus that took us a different way so we hoped off and decided we would walk from where ever we were home. It was about 12:00 at night when we walked and it was pretty scary. We finally found our apartment and we got home at around 12:24 at night. I decided taht I am never traveling anywhere unless we know exactly where it is and I know I will be home at a good hour. Thank goodness mom and dad could skype afterwards and I could tell them all about it!
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