Here are the things I'm doing in Rome to enjoy myself and to not piss anyone off or get myself killed:
-I always try to be very nice to those Italians I talk with, but not in a patronizing remember-which-country-I'm-from way.
-I am committed to learning as much Italian as I can here. I can't even tell you how annoying it is to me when I see someone (an American especially) who has obviously made no effort to learn the language and is visibly agitated when an Italian isn't one-hundred percent fluent in English.
-With a couple exceptions, I try and avoid getting hammered. I love the United States dearly and don't want to soil her reputation by yarking all over the bar. No, thank God, that hasn't happened to me (yet?).
-I don't carry my camera everywhere; I'm going to be here for 3 months so there's no need to be a slave to it.
-I avoid McDonalds like the plague (not that I frequent them in the US either).
-Being a musician, I try be generous towards buskers.
Getting lost in Rome helps me to forget about all the political bullshit going on back in the states. Sometimes it feels good to just disappear.
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