Ok, so in order to try and keep up with my blogging, I wrote this one on October 8 and am posting it now!
This was a pretty good week! I got sick during the middle which was a bit of a bummer…still am sick actually now that I think about it. Monday was our first day of classes! I had my IB 340 (Fashion/Busn) class and that went well…we took a tour to the Cattolica library. We are going to be doing a lot of “field studies” which will be interesting. The teacher is quite nice, just a bit hard to understand her accent sometimes. Side note…people are fascinating. Some people really ask the most bizarre and unnecessary questions. Just to be difficult? Ignorance? We’ll never know…
Then I had my cooking class with Marcela! So, we get into class and one of the first things our teacher says is, our chef “e’ morto…” He died. Eight days before our class…in a motorcycle accident. We were all a bit shell shocked really, I mean, what do you say to that? So, they’re looking for a new chef/cooking school we can use. For the meantime, we have take-home cooking assignments. Actually, Marcela and I are going to attempt a risotto tomorrow night! Hopefully, this goes better than my first attempt at baking… “Baking powder” is not easy to find in
Then I went over to Alison’s and we decided to go to the “girls” appt for dinner since Jocelyn was cooking and we really couldn’t turn that down. And good thing we didn’t because it was amazing, she made us pasta with salad AND Nutella crepes!! Heaven landed on my plate that night…and I ate it. At least three times.
Tuesday I had work again after Italian 200. After work I needed a walk, and gelato…so that’s what I did. I walked to the Duomo, got gelato and walked back to the IES center where I took the metro back. I can’t walk to where I live…since I’d have to cross a freeway to do that…It would be more funny if I was joking.
Wednesday is my free day! I had class in the morning and then picked up some groceries. I got Michael’s package today which was really nice. I had lunch at the Collegio and then headed back to the bar across from IES to meet Marcela and Alex to go over our “group hw” fr
om our cooking class that is a bit lacking since we still don’t have a chef…My other class (the internship seminar) was canceled today because Ilaria was hospitalized! So, I came home, skyped with Dad, and headed over to Alison’s to try our hand at baking. Yes, this was our first attempt that didn’t go so well! But, we ate the cookies and got Pizza OK 5 for dinner (Oh! I also discovered last night there is a Pizza Ok 6?! By Marcela’s appt…random) Oh yes…this was also the evening we decided to book a trip to
Thursday I had work again…everyone was in
Friday after class, Alison and I decided we weren’t doing anything so we should just walk around! So, we did! We walked all over, we took the tram to Duomo…oh that’s right! During class there was a strike outside and our teacher let us go upstairs and check it out. It was crazy! I wish I’d taken pictures. The entire street was crammed with high school kids protesting. There was loud music and banners and police in riot gear bringing up the rear! When we got back down stairs our teacher explained they were protesting a new political leader who wants to make some changes in
Alison and I decided to make omelets for dinner! Ooh they were so good…we found the two story Esselunga and it was fantastic. The aisles were so wide we twirled around a couple times. I felt 
like skipping. Anyway, we wanted to make fruit salad and omelets…Alison insisted on getting a pineapple haha. Which actually turned out well! We bought some other bits and I went home for a bit.
Saturday I slept in! I watched Gossip Girl all day and was feeling really crappy. Definitely sick at this point. Alison and I tried our hands at cookies again, and they turned out wonderfully because we had found baking powder!! Yippie! So we made those, and then FINALLY went to diner at the yummy looking restaurant by her house…called “Seafood and Pizza” I cannot remember the Italian word for seafood…but that’s what it is. It was sooo good. I had salmon pizza and Alison picked something random from the menu which turned out to be pizza with mussels and tomatoes ha. She ate most of it and then decided afterwards she doesn’t much care for mussels. Haha…so after our little date we went over to Marcela’s to drop off some cookies and then headed home to bed…because tomorrow is GARDALAND…
When I got home the Italians were having a Collegio party! They asked me to join, but I just went to sleep...
Sunday we were up at 8am to head off to Gardaland!! Yay!! Haha…Gardaland was awesome…everything was decked out in Halloween garb! There were 5 or so rollercoaster-ish rides and we saw a show…hahaha which was hilarious to say the least! It was called Halloween on Ice and was the most inappropriate children’s show I’ve ever seen. It started off alright. Dracula came out on ice skates…it was actually pretty cool! They did some awesome stunts, had some funny Italian Halloween songs…I was hoping they would do the “thriller dance” ..and they did!! Which was great…moonwalking on ice looks sweet. So we were enjoying ourselves when a scantily clad dance waltzes out onto the ice and attaches herself to a flying hoop. She then continues to perform racy stunts and sexually charged dance moves to Evanescense and an intense rock and roll song…just as we’re thinking this show isn’t really so G rated…things got weirder…The next ice skater comes out prancing and I realized I recognize the song theyre playing…that’s because its KATY PERRY’S I KISSED A GIRL AND I LIKED IT!! We couldn’t believe it! They played Katy Perry and a children’s ice skating show. I couldn’t stop laughing…I suppose no one there actually speaks English so it doesn’t matter…but WHAT?! This would never go down at Disney…What would Walt think?
Ha, another funny thing that happened…there was only one rollercoaster that took a long time…and that was MAMUT…oh Mamut. We saw the huge line but decided we might as well wait, we weren’t exactly busy or anything. So, we waited….and 80 minutes later I was dangerously close (literally) to causing physical harm to the italian couple behind us in line. Personal Space…this concept is completely foreign and unimportant to Italians. I cannot understand why they insisted upon standing so close to us we could feel them breathing…although, on the upside I can literally turn around and say: “You are so annoying, what the hell is wrong with you!?” and they haven’t got a clue…it is slightly satisfying at least. So by the time we get to the front we’ve waited almost 2 hours and decide what’s 5 more minutes wait to sit in the front! The ride was similar to thunder mountain so the front seats were a train! So, we skipped out turn and waited for the front row. Just as we are about to hop in, the fast pass people are let in and two little kids dive into the front…just as we’re about to crack, the man operating the ride kicks them out!! Hahaha…That’s a life lesson kids. We EARNED those seats. It was really funny.
So, Gardaland. A positive experience…except the one ride that just toggled us upside down for like 30 seconds, multiple times. That was just weird…but overall a pleasant experience. Unfortunately, we missed the 6pm train home, so we kicked around for another hour and headed back. Fun day!
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