First week of classes done

This is the view from my street, the big building in the middle in the distance is a church which is near where my school is... yea lol.

Okay, another day has passed and here I am again giving you so much to read :). I don't know why I bother to write sooo much because most of you can't keep up with what I've been writting anyways! lol. But oh well too bad, read faster lol.

Today I had my first taste of Gelato. It was chocolate flavor... wow... I've decided a daily trip for Gelato is mandatory so I will be going bankrupt at 3 Euros a pop. But wow its so worth it... I'll just not have lunch and have that instead. I had a Falafal (spelling) today. That was really good. For dinner today I had Verdure con besciamella e Tigelle con pomodoro, tonno e formaggio. (Vegetables with cream[made from butter, milk and flour], and a hard crusted bread with tomatos, tuna fish and picorino cheese (cheese made from a sheep) on top. It was really good. Then I had this icecream bar which was very good, It was hard and soft at the same time.. Really hard to explain.

Crystal and I talked tonight finally successfully. She asked me if I had gained a lot of wait yet... I don't know lol. I can't tell. And I don't have a scale near by so I'll have to weigh myself when I get home :).

LIS class got a bit more complicated today but we pulled through okay. We learned the signs for family members (mom, dad, uncle, cousin, grandchild..etc.) It was really confusing because they don't differentiate between male and female usually, and the sign for grandchild and nephew or neice is the same sign... because apparently in Italian it is also the same word... kinda odd. lol.

Italian was just as difficult as ever. Just when I think I can start to grasp things he throws in a new curve ball. Ugh. Tomorrow (today since i posted it today) I have a meeting at 1030-1130, then a bunch of us are going to a museum in an old hospital... That shall be exciting. It's right here in Siena. Then after that I have a Gelato date with a couple of my friends :). Then I'll have lunch hehe. Then I'll prolly be back on here to hopefully find at least one person online to chat with for a bit before leaving to go back to my host families house at 658. So that's my day.

Saturday morning we leave for florence at 8am. The bus ticket to Florence was 6 euros.. Then from Florence we are taking a bullet train to Venice.. We are staying there over night and then coming back on Sunday via a train. We should be back in Siena around 630 7pm. Then I'll head back to my house and my host family will be in Rome until late Sunday so I won't see them so I'll be here alone. So most likely i will have to find food before I head home or just scrape up something.

Next weekend Saturday I will be going to Florence to actually visit the city and not just go through it, and then we will be going from there to Pisa where we will stay overnight and head back on sunday. So, I will have seen my fair share of Italy :). I'm just sad I won't have a chance to see Sicily or Pompe.

Oh, I talked to Michael this afternoon as well. It's been 12 hours since then so I almost forgot. heh. He is the only one I've been able to hear mostly clearly. Everyone else sounds like they are 5,000 miles away.

And yea... I have a personal hatred of the damn pidgions around here. One pooped on me GRRR, and one flew into my head... like... Full speed swooping down right into my head. And one hit me in the side... The birds here fly like the people around here drive! So a lesson for you... Becareful of the birds when in Italy. lol. I'm gonna look like I've been through wwII before I get home lol.

It rained and thundered again today... so much for this tuscan sun. Eventually its supposed to clear up..

Well I will leave you with this and I will have quite a blog when I get back on Monday for you :)

So until next time,

Ciao!