Italian women are moody..

At least the three I've met so far.

Yesterday evening I arrived at my hostel in Trento at 22:55. Check-in closes at 23:00 (I found out at the hostel, this valuable piece of information was not on the internet), but to the staff this means they want it to be closed and done at 23:00, so the door to the hostel was already closed. Luckily, I met someone who had called the hostel and got a code to open the door. So a very annoyed lady gave us some keys and sheets and we were off to our dorms. In my dorm I found the light switched on, and then a very annoyed middle-aged Italian lady in a green night gown. No matter how often I addressed her in English and explained that I had no idea what she was talking about, she kept telling me how annoying I was (at least, I think that's what she was saying). Fine. So then I brushed my teeth, put on my PJs and hopped in to bed and pretty soon the lady below me started snoring.
Around 1 a few Italians girls came in, pretty quietly so that was OK. What wasn't OK (according to the lady in the green night gown) was that they got up again at quarter to seven, so then I witnessed the Italian people being annoyed. You know that people are going to bed and getting up at different times in a dorm, damnit!! Ah well.

This morning I wanted to check in, pay my bill, you know. On the internet it said that they accepted credit cards. The lady behind the counter certainly didn't, and proceeded to be very annoyed that I didn't have the cash on me!!
At least the people at the conference are nice. And they have very nice pastries at the coffee breaks so I'll survive :)

Oh, back to the talks! Byeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

17:49 Update

The sun started shining two hours ago and all of a sudden everyone seemed a lot nicer. So now I've been able to pay the hostel bill and I got the codes to the door so I will be able to get in after 23:00, YAY!!!

I also find it great to see the streets fill up with people as soon as there are a few rays of sunlight visible...there are also queues at the Gelaterias right away...:-)