Today was our first day of class. It was hard!!! We started out with Professor Braniciforte who only
spoke Italian and spoke it really fast!!! We had to basically make up the alphabet and start over
every time we guessed a letter wrong. They don't have some letters that we have so that was
interesting. I also liked learning the numbers but for some reason, I can never remember how to say
"two"! (It is due by the way... pronounced DOO-EH). We learned how to introduce ourselves (Mi chiamo
Amy!), say where we are from (Sono di Baltimore), to ask how someone is (Come stai?), and "to be"
verbs. We also learned articles which are really tough!!! "Professoressa" Amodeo taught the second
half and she was hilarious. She helps us all get through the days because we just laugh at everything
she says. The other night, she called us flowers. Not pretty or delicate... but prissy wimps who
would die in the cold!!! But yea... My brain was DEAD after just a few hours of school. I hope it
gets easier.
After school finally ended, most of us hung out and used the free Internet there. Then, a couple of us
went to find food. We stumbled upon this little "bar" which is more like a sandwich shop in the
States. I got some really yummy sandwich but I have no clue what was on it. Then we went to the
market/coop and I got clementines, foccacia, and mozzarella to just have in my room if I get hungry
during off hours. It is really weird because restaurants and stores aren't open during the same kind
of hours as in the US. Stores close at 7 pm and restaurants don't open UNTIL 7:30pm! No such thing as
an early bird special in Italy!
A bunch of us went out to dinner tonight at a place down the street called Murena Suite. We had a
waitress named Veronica who was learning English so she would teach us phrases and we would teach her
phrases! It was sooo fun to go back and forth. We had a lot of laughs. There were two cute Italian
boys sitting in the same area so we were joking about hitting on them. But they were the first cute
Italian boys I've seen all trip! Most are a weird mix between metrosexual and biker dudes. We did get
one of them to take our picture with Veronica, the waitress. She was really interesting and fun and
the meal was really good. And I had my first Italian red wine... I had white the other night... And I
have a bottle of sparkling white under my bed, waiting for a special time to enjoy it lol. Three of
the girls we were with, Marta, Emoni, and Krissie, are fairly advanced in Italian so they were helping
us to communicate. And they wrote down a bunch of bad words for me to learn :-P I love being
inappropriate.
By the way... Hai un bel culo! ;-) (You have a nice ass!) Haha yea I am lame.
Ciao!
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