Another day in Siena

Just on the way back to class

Wednesday is now coming to an end and here I sit in my room again at 924pm typing this blog :). Today flew by but I still insist that it feels like I've been here forever. Just a quick schedule update (last minute) For tomorrow (today for you now reading this) June 5th my schedule has changed because my LIS teacher needs to leave early to go home for a family event or something like that. So... I will be in class 0830-1000 then 1030-1200 then 1430-1600. Then I'm done. So I will be out of class by 4pm which is great.. I think... I will hopefully chill with my friends maybe look around town if its not raining.. again.

It thunderstormed today :). Apparently this is really odd weather for them because it has been raining everyday since Monday and will rain everyday until next Monday. Thats kinda crappy weather. But then after that the weather is supposed to be better. If I had known it was gonna be this rainy and chilly I would have brought some more heavier clothing. I was definently planning on 80s and sunny.

LIS is going great I'm remembering most of what I learn which is why I love learning sign languages so much :) See it once or twice and I got it. Class is fun. We don't learn word by word, instead we do it through stories. So he introduces the word during the stories but he doesn't use ASL to tell us he uses geastures to make us understand. For the past 3 classes now we have been working on this one story which he keeps adding onto more and more and more... Its quite long now. if we continue to practice with that story I will be able to do it for you very well when I return :) Its about a girl that buys a fish then feeds it. Then she gets board and plays with a balloon which she plays with while a cat catches the fish and goes to eat it. The girl sees the cat and lets go of the balloon and runs over saving the fish and locking up the cat. Then she uses a table and chair to eventually get her balloon back while the cat escapes and shakes the table knocking the girl to the floor... lol. Its quite interesting. Its fun.

Italian.... oye.. Someone shoot me now. Its going very slowly and very painfully. I feel like I'm hopeless. I get really lost in class and can't really answer the teacher when he asks me questions. I wish I could retain the information like I do the sign language but it just flys right through my head instantly. So I can't study any of my LIS because i'm constantly focusing on my Italian. I think that the class is moving a bit too fast for me and if we worked on the stuff we've learned so far more instead of introducing 500 new things each day I might be able to remember something. ugh.

Italian deaf culture class is fun. I love the teacher as I think I have said.
OH! I talked to my dad today (wednesday night) and we were talking about phone cards. He said the best he could find of calling cards to a cell phone from a cell phone was through pinzoo.com. It's 17.9 cents a minute... eep. So I understand that its expensive for you guys to call and I don't expect you to too much if you can't I understand. But know if you do I'd love to hear from you. Emails and AIM is nice but hearing your voice is always nice.

Also, if I'm at my host families house I am welcome to use their phone so if it would be cheaper to call the host family land line then you can but call my cell phone first to make sure I'm home and that its not soo late that everyones sleeping... Otherwise we gotta use my cell. But in the case that when you call my cell and want to use the land line (cause i believe its cheaper if you can find a land line and call to one) and I say you can, then use this number; 39 is the country code, then 0577 44937. but again don't call that until you get intouch with me on my cell phone first.

And I just got done talking with Crystal its 10pm now here. Signal was pretty bad and she cut in and out so I barely got any conversation in so next time shes trying from non tmobile phone :). But it was good to hear from her (you if your crystal reading this).

Oh, and okay for the weekend I'm going to Venice. So I leave for Venice at 9am on Saturday the 7th and come back on Sunday around 630 or 730pm... So this means the only way to communicate will be via phone which your more then welcome to do :). Friday afternoon will be the last time I'm online until Monday June 9th.

Today at dinner we had tortellini then we had tomatos and mozzerella buffella(spelling)... It was really good. Then I had chocolate pudding with whipcream :). yummm.
Okay enough stalling I'm gonna go do some more practicing. Seems like I will never be able to do enough... AND I gotta get up earyl tomorrow grrr. Just when I was getting into some sort of routine. oh well. Ciao

Love you all
~John