Happy Happy Birthday

So we are in the second full week of being in Florence and things are going great. After finally getting some sleep Monday night it felt good to be back home at 119 Ghibellina. Nothing really exciting happened this week besides last night. It was Alex Simm's 21st birthday and I must say it seemed like everyone thought it was their birthdays last night.

We all had a blast and it was the first time that almost everyone went out to the same place together. We ended up going to Space which was pretty legit, except for the fact that the laws for bars are completely different here than back in the states. In the U.S. you must be 18 to get into most bars and 21 to drink. Here in Italy you have to be at least 16 years old to get in and you are able to purchase alcohol in some of them. It is really weird that 16 is the legal age around here. Being that I work in a bar I know the major laws that protect innocent bystanders to the immaturity of underage drinking. There are many bars that do not have a "human resource department", but they do have rules and regulations in place that protect the owners and the workers. There are many ways around this for a bartender to be able to sell to his or her underage friends so it comes down to making an ethical decision. Many of the laws in Florence are different especially the traffic laws, in which there seems to be none at all. I plan on keeping my eyes opened for other things that are different and tell you guys about them. We are leaving for Rome tomorrow at 8 in the morning so we decided to take it easy. I will update you guys from Rome.