#79
The significance of this title is that I am number 79 on Maura’s list of house guests. Yes, I know your mouth has just dropped. Mine definitely did too. I felt a little less special and more like just another number that has passed through. She has always treated me with such kindness and tells us we are like her children, but that’s just they way they are; anyone under their roof is family and treated as such. Plus, that means 78 people came before me and chances are a few bothered her more and messed up more than I will. So in that aspect, it is definitely a big relief. We volunteered to teach kindergarteners English last Thursday and it was awesome. I think I told you how cute little kids speaking Italian is before but this is just a whole new level of cuteness. Courtney, Sarah and I taught them Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes and Old McDonald had a Farm. This was their first exposure to Old McDonald so it was pretty much us singing and them chiming in for the animal sound parts and then humming. Per esempio, “ahhhhiiiiiiiiahhhhh moo moo ahhhhhiiiiiahhhh moo moo.” How much English they already knew, simple things like, “Good Morning”, “How are you”, and some animals and colors surprised us. They adored Courtney because she is just an Italian expert and even wants to teach some day. Girls actually started fighting each other to have a spot next to her. One even cried L. Other than that, I am starting to pick up more things and be able to break down what someone is saying better…. I’m getting there haha.
Bologna with no Boloney
Well we just got back from Bologna about two hours ago, and it was definitely a cool trip. Kristian, Joe and I made our 7:45 bus and got to spend all of today and yesterday (Friday/Saturday) in Bologna. We met up with our friend Joe, who is studying at a small school in Bologna for this summer. We visited a lot of beautiful parks and made fun of the couples making out very carelessly in public. I was just thankful that we were not in one of those countries where they may do more than that in public. We walked into two churches. Uno è stato Basilicia di San Petronio e forse Chiesa di San Maria ma non lo so. San Petronio was just gorgeous inside. They consisted of mostly graves and neat paintings older than 400 years old. One interesting painting was of heaven, purgatory, and hell. In hell everyone was nude and actually being eaten by satan. Well that sounds a little rough but it was subtler than that. I went to go shopping while the boys sat like old men in the park, but I definitely got a lot accomplished. I bought a dress for only 3 euros! We walked through The University of Bologna, which I think is the oldest university in the world that is still in existence. We checked the University district out later too because that’s where the nightlife is in Bologna. We meat a bartender from Cambodia who told us about his special drink called Magic Sam. He was sponsored by some company in San Francisco and showed us the website that the recipe is on (by actually taking out his macbook). He made us this special drink, that was about 7/8 liquor and I definitely could not even enjoy drinking it, but at least I can say I sipped it for a little. Today we met Joe’s friend from Sweden and ate Tortellini (supposed to be delicious in bologna). Other than that we saw our first Ferrari in Italy and enjoyed Bologna’s orange (yes Kelley Drew… lots of orange buildings haha), yellow and red color scene. Love you all and talk to you soon.
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