BK's Travel Blog: Perugia Day 2

Our second day in Perugia, on 6/8, we started our day off by meeting up with a girl from England that was a student at the University of Perugia who was to show us around a little bit before meeting up with Dean Rossi, the Dean of the Pharmacy School at the University. On our little tour she told us about the University of Perugia and also told us about the University for Foreigners where you can take classes to learn Italian. Along the way we walked over the aqueduct in the city and then into a building of the University which had walls covered in excavated Etruscan carvings.

After our quick tour we meet up with Dean Rossi and he brought us into a lecture room there in the Pharmacy School where he and a couple professors presented some information about the Italian pharmacy school requirements and what the University offers as well as giving us some information about pharmacy in Italian healthcare. After the presentations some of us asked questions to the professors and dean that we had. When our time was up there they presented each of us with a bag with some keepsakes in them. From there our professors went up with the Dean to finalize and sign a pharmacy rotation Duquesne students could do at the University of Perugia and vice versa, while us the students went around with Stefano another professor and a friend of Paolo and he showed us some of the labs and talked to us about the school and exams and such.

From here we were treated to a lunch from the Dean at a restaurant near the school which was very good. After lunch we were taken to a local pharmacy where the pharmacist showed us around and presented some information to us about his pharmacy. There we were again treated to some food and gather more information. One thing we found pretty shocking was that pharmacies in Italy do not put any type of labels on the drugs they give out to patients. That means no patient name, no directions, nothing, they just hand them the box of drugs they were prescribed.

At this point of the day it's pretty late and we are ending this part of our day extremely behind schedule. We went back to the hotel for a bit, but then were bused to Dean Rossi's house for a dinner provided by him. Well little did we know we were going to a mansion in the hills of Perugia that had an amazing view and an even more impressive spread with 3 waiters. I think we were all in awe when we saw it and didn't feel worthy to be a part of this party he had. There was a famous artist from Canada I believe was where she was from and all the professors were there and then us the Duquesne students. But the night was amazing and really good food as well. After dinner we went back to the hotel and some of us ventured out again with Paolo for our last night in Perugia.

I don't have many pictures from this day due to the fact we were basically doing school work the whole day, but I have a couple pictures of the view from Dean Rossi's house.