Dio benedice America!

This week has been full of classes, but just to say that would definitely be underestimating the good time it has been. This week has been full of classes, reflections, presentations, a test (grazie Dio, Antonella told us five minutes before we were allowed to use notes), English kindergarten class, English college class, a visit to the Bruco Contrada Museum, Alex singing at an Irish Pub, and much more that I cannot recall. After our visit to the Bruco Museum, the tour guide actually GAVE (for free) us these books that they only make when they win the Palio. They are probably at least 20 Euros apiece but out of guilt for being late, he just gave them to us. Pazza, I thought time was “relative” here anyways. We volunteered for the kindergarten summer school and taught them many pirate words and fruits in English. My favorite is this one who is a cute but average looking little boy until you look at his big gorgeous brown eyes. He is lighter skinned with light brown hair but his eyes just make you melt. I may bring that one home, I’m sure Andrew would like another buddy. In History of Emigration, we talked about the hardships of the second phase of Italian emigrants (mostly to France, Argentina, e Stati Uniti). An interesting point that Elena brought up was how brave one most have been to go to a brand new place, speak a brand new language, travel in filthy conditions for months, and maybe find a job that the locals do not want. Even though this is obvious, I guess I never really thought about how every single citizen of the United States today owes to the courage and struggle of his or her relatives. Our ancestors were successful. Left all they new for a new beginning, most likely did not speak any English… but did it. I’m sure this courage and strength passed on to generation after generation. I don’t know about you, but that most make one hell of a nation. God Bless America. Trust me, we celebrated our Independence here, haha. One last thing… Maura’s son and his new wife came over for dinner. They might be one of the hottest couples I have ever seen. He is 38 and she is probably early 30’s. They are both olive colored with light blue and green eyes. They are funny because they think I understand a lot less than I do and try and thoroughly explain everything. I just smile and tell them it’s fine, I understand. They do speak so fast and it’s just neat to listen and try to follow the conversation. Andrea’s wife is scared of sea creatures in Australia (where they are going for their honeymoon). She kept pointing to her freshly French tipped nails and I think she meant she was worried about losing those in the sea too. Who knows, I just enjoyed looking at them and admiring Andrea’s ex-model wife. O and we were served this fish type of thing. It was very small and salty. I should have waited to eat it until someone else did because I definitely ate all the bones of this fish. I didn’t realize that you are supposed to pull off the meat until I saw the left over bones on Maura’s plate. It was even better when I saw the tiny little fish head I just stuck down my throat. I definitely tried to put more stuff on my plate so the bones could have been underneath the extra food. I debated on confessing but then I forgot the word for bone or skeleton anyways. Well other than that… talk to you all soon. Love and miss you all J