I will already preface it by saying I will have to split up a lot because with the amount of things I did and all the food that I ate it would be like writing the Odyssey and my name ain't Homer. It seems easy to do it by days so lets get started. It wouldn't be me without having some kind of problem in travel. I got to Rome perfectly unscathed but by the time I got off the best from the airport to the city center my phone died.
Here I was, lost not knowing where my hotel was and without technology to speak of. I ended up wondering the streets for about 20 minutes before I found two other Americans studying in Sevilla that were lost as well. We made a 3 musketeers, very dysfunctional, but it worked for the time just in order to find our hostels. We wandered for another maybe an hour at most. We ended up on a street after asking for directions where a couple waiters were standing outside and offered their help. The girls' hostel was on the same street but apparently mine was blocks and blocks away in the opposite direction.
I turned around alone at like 1 am wondering for what felt like forever but it probably had been 30 minutes. I get to the address the man gave me but literally saw no sign that it was my hostel so I left to wander for another like 20 minutes until my desperation sat in. I asked anybody that I could find. I saw a woman and I kind of thought either she's a working woman late at night or she's a prostitute (shame on me). I stopped her and practically begged for help. Thank God Spanish is close to Italian because that was the only way I made it through she ended up trying to help me find a hostel until I told her that I already had one but that I have the address in my phone but it's dead. She said "Why didn't you say that!? Come with me!" I was like shit, this is where I might get dragged into a drug house, robbed, or killed. So I replied, "Can I just ask this man in this hotel here?". She said no just come I have friends that own a business and I will ask a favor don't worry you just have to buy something.
It was a little quickie food shop. She told me to eat really slowly so that my phone would have time to charge before I would probably have to leave. She blew kisses and went about her way. There are just normal good people in the world!! I ate not the most appetizing food ever but I was cold and starving. My phone charged and I ended up finding the place which was exactly where I had been before.
I rang the bell to Alessandro Downtown to a man answering with "What do you want?". I said I was looking for Alessandro Downtown and he replies "Why the f#$k are you ringing the bell"..because the address sent me here and I need to get in...."Oh you have a reservation? second floor" and buzzes me in...what an asshole. This was my welcoming night I crawled onto my bunk and slept with all my clothes on and yall know those are the worst nights.