Today we went to school and had an ALL REVIEW DAY! YAY! It was really helpful and i finally feel like things are starting to click... kind of. I'm still going to have to do some MAJOR studying tonight... except we are seeing a 3 hour Opera tonight so there won't be as much studying or sleeping as I would like.
Things are finally clicking location-wise too. I have a really horrible sense of direction (sometimes I get lost in Perry Hall still! :-P) and now, the second to last day, I've finally figured my way out around Genova! I suck at life :-P And I've finally figured out how to order food as well. Good thing pointing and grunting is understood in all countries!
After school, we had a CHEAP lunch at Da Maria, a pasta-lunch place right by school. It was so good and they let me get ravioli with PESTO! Genoa is known for its pesto and its stuffed pastas but I haven't seen them combined! So they had spaghetti and pesto and ravioli and ragu so I asked for ravioli and pesto. She gave me a funny look but I got it! It was really good. I feel like all I write about in this blog is the food but that is what Italy is known for!
We came back to the hotel (Siamo tornate a hotel... just doing a little studying/translating while writing my blog lol) and then it was study time. So many tenses and so much vocabulary! And we had to practice SPEAKING because there in an oral section too! I hate trying to have a conversation because we are so limited in what we know how to say. I feel like I sound like an idiot when I speak Italian.
We did some studying and then showered and started to get ready for the Opera. And then we watched the Inauguration! Congrats Mr. President Obama! :-D It was sooo exciting and such an awesome moment in history to see. The only problem was that the Italian channels all dubbed over the speeches in Italian! Go figure :-P I'm going to have to YouTube those speeches so I can be up-to-date on it all. It was still a cool thing to watch.
We got ready and left for the Opera. We saw "Il Turco in Italia" and it was fun to be there. It was opening night and some people were very done up! Good people watching place. We went in and we were supposed to be in the balcony but Suzanne said she got us an upgrade because they know her. She only got us an upgrade because the place was basically empty and there were lots of orchestra seats left! Haha! We were in the back of the orchestra and they were nice seats. The interesting thing about theatres in Italy is that the scenery is the height of the room but then the building goes down into the ground that same amount, and up into the air that amount again! This is because the scenery is like a giant painted wall and when they change scenery, they just drop it down into the ground, or pick it up into the ceiling! Pretty cool!
The scenery was nice and so were the costumes... but we couldn't understand a single word! Even if we spoke Italian better, we still wouldn't get it because they gave every word like 10 syllables! O0o0o0o0o0o0o!!! Up and down their voices went. It was kind of ridiculous. And the professoressas said that it would be an hour and a half long. No. That was the first half. Instead of getting home by 11, we weren't home til after midnight... the night before our final exam! Oy... Lets hope I don't fail! It was an interesting experience all in all.
Buonanotte!
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