Blog Day 5

Second day of class and despite finally getting a full night of sleep, I was still really sleepy. To me, class felt just as hard as yesterday! Today, we learned some more verbs... but I don't think I could even tell you what they were off the top of my head. After I finish writing, I am going to study some more. We also learned seasons, months, days of the week, time, etc.

After school, we hung out and used the internet for awhile. It put me in a bad mood though because the journalism deans are so frustrating! And yes, I'll write that in a blog... I pretty much told them that straight to their faces and in numerous emails anyway. I asked for my producing grade to be looked at as soon as it was posted and I gave them all the information they asked for, and more, and now that I am in Italy, they are asking me to waste my time and email the prof to get a specific grade breakdown! I AM IN ITALY PEOPLE!!! THAT IS WHY I BEGGED YOU TO HELP ME BEFORE I LEFT!!! GRRR!!!

But anyway... screw it. They already hate me and will hate me even more next semester. On to happier topics...

Today was kind of boring because it is a national holiday here. It is the day of the epiphany or something like that? And they have this lady, Berafina, who looks like a witch and brings sweets and gifts to the kids in Italy. But because it is a holiday, the streets are empty and most of the places around are closed!

So when we got back from school, we did our homework and practiced some Italian. Then we all napped which was nice except now I won't be able to fall asleep. After we woke up, we tried to find this one place to get some more pasta pesto! But we got lost :-P Streets here aren't labeled the same way as in America (obviously) and it was hard for us to figure out what street we were on. So we asked this guy "Dove?" (Where?) and pointed to the card we had for the place. He said that he thought it was closed so we wound up just going to this pizza place that we had already been to. I can't wait to learn more Italian and get the hang of it better so that we can feel comfortable ordering food and shopping, etc.

I am going to go study more before bed so ciao everyone! :-)

By the way, it is snowing here!!! And even though we are in the center of a city, it is still pretty snow! We will see if any of it sticks tomorrow and if it stays pretty... I think it will though... Even things that are ugly, are still pretty because we are in ITALIA! :-D (i don't know if that made any sense but it did to me! lol)

One last thing... we are officially booked for a hotel in Florence!!! :-D I am so excited! I need to do some research though! :-D eek!

Ok.. Ciao for real now! :-D (By the way, my posts are posted the day after I write them usually)