Yesterday's post, since the internet decided to stop working again...
Non posso credere di essere in Italia. Ogni giorno vedo qualcosa famosa di cui ho sentito ma che non ho visto mai. Non voglio mai tornare in America, ma mi amano i miei amici e la mia famiglia più di Venezia. Ho cominciato la mia classe italiana a CLIDA oggi. Non era facile, ma spero di imparare più di tutte le altre persone. Se faccio attenzione nella classe e provo di studiare (quando non voglio fare un’altra cosa), penso di potere essere quasi scorrevole in italiano.
Translate it guys! Devo praticare il mio italiano TUTTO IL TEMPO.
Just kidding… enough of that. English is so much easier and faster per me! Allora, penso di scrivere in some kind of hybrid language for a while.
So, today was the first day of class. It was a little strange actually having to wake up and go somewhere… especially when that somewhere is school. We all got our class assignments… Apparently I tested into level 3. I’m pretty sure that was the level I was supposed to test into after my 4 semesters of italiano, but I am honestly not sure if I have adequately prepared.
Here’s a shocker: I am basically the slowest person in my class. Not too shocking considering that I am always slow and that I am the only person from Alabama. Then there are four Kansas University girls (including my housemates Kate and Kayla), 4 people from what they claim to be like a Canadian Ivy League school, a woman from Germany, and a woman from Argentina. And most of them seem to be ridiculously good at Italian.
My teacher is named Maria, and she seems really cool. She was willing to slow down and explain when I was particularly lost, which was MUCH appreciated. Four hours is definitely stretching my attention span, but hopefully I will get used to being in class that long eventually. Hopefully by the time it’s over, at least…
After lunch about half of our group went to the Uffizi (a huge art museum) to eat lunch and at least start looking at some of the art (for free… yay museum passes). There is so much, it took me forever just to look at everything on the third floor. But I definitely saw works by Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Raffaello, Botticelli, and Leonardo da Vinci. I feel so cultured now. And my legs feel exhausted. I am in serious need of a pedometer to see just how far I walk every day.
Sara and I both took forever to look at everything, so we ended up leaving around the same time. We went to CLIDA to use their internet since ours seems to be down nel nostro appartamento all the time. Then we walked home, discovered a piazza and market place that we had yet to visit, got some gelato (today’s flavor for me being menta), and came home.
Dinner was absolutely delicious tonight. We had bowtie pasta with pesto (il mio favorito), salad, lots of cheese, a yummy vegetarian patty of some sort (well, everybody else had big hunks of meat while I ate soy), tomatoes with mozzarella, and fruit for dessert. I am starting to grow more stomachs, just as Paolo advised me…
And now I’m in my bottom bunk writing this and then perhaps trying to study il congiuntivo stupido for a while. We’ll just have to see how that works out…
I kept today’s update pretty short, didn’t I? Maybe because almost 4 hours of writing this morning (given, that was Italian…) has kept me from wanting to do so for pleasure. But here you go anyway. ;)
Buona notte a tutti!
Non posso credere di essere in Italia. Ogni giorno vedo qualcosa famosa di cui ho sentito ma che non ho visto mai. Non voglio mai tornare in America, ma mi amano i miei amici e la mia famiglia più di Venezia. Ho cominciato la mia classe italiana a CLIDA oggi. Non era facile, ma spero di imparare più di tutte le altre persone. Se faccio attenzione nella classe e provo di studiare (quando non voglio fare un’altra cosa), penso di potere essere quasi scorrevole in italiano.
Translate it guys! Devo praticare il mio italiano TUTTO IL TEMPO.
Just kidding… enough of that. English is so much easier and faster per me! Allora, penso di scrivere in some kind of hybrid language for a while.
So, today was the first day of class. It was a little strange actually having to wake up and go somewhere… especially when that somewhere is school. We all got our class assignments… Apparently I tested into level 3. I’m pretty sure that was the level I was supposed to test into after my 4 semesters of italiano, but I am honestly not sure if I have adequately prepared.
Here’s a shocker: I am basically the slowest person in my class. Not too shocking considering that I am always slow and that I am the only person from Alabama. Then there are four Kansas University girls (including my housemates Kate and Kayla), 4 people from what they claim to be like a Canadian Ivy League school, a woman from Germany, and a woman from Argentina. And most of them seem to be ridiculously good at Italian.
My teacher is named Maria, and she seems really cool. She was willing to slow down and explain when I was particularly lost, which was MUCH appreciated. Four hours is definitely stretching my attention span, but hopefully I will get used to being in class that long eventually. Hopefully by the time it’s over, at least…
After lunch about half of our group went to the Uffizi (a huge art museum) to eat lunch and at least start looking at some of the art (for free… yay museum passes). There is so much, it took me forever just to look at everything on the third floor. But I definitely saw works by Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Raffaello, Botticelli, and Leonardo da Vinci. I feel so cultured now. And my legs feel exhausted. I am in serious need of a pedometer to see just how far I walk every day.
Sara and I both took forever to look at everything, so we ended up leaving around the same time. We went to CLIDA to use their internet since ours seems to be down nel nostro appartamento all the time. Then we walked home, discovered a piazza and market place that we had yet to visit, got some gelato (today’s flavor for me being menta), and came home.
Dinner was absolutely delicious tonight. We had bowtie pasta with pesto (il mio favorito), salad, lots of cheese, a yummy vegetarian patty of some sort (well, everybody else had big hunks of meat while I ate soy), tomatoes with mozzarella, and fruit for dessert. I am starting to grow more stomachs, just as Paolo advised me…
And now I’m in my bottom bunk writing this and then perhaps trying to study il congiuntivo stupido for a while. We’ll just have to see how that works out…
I kept today’s update pretty short, didn’t I? Maybe because almost 4 hours of writing this morning (given, that was Italian…) has kept me from wanting to do so for pleasure. But here you go anyway. ;)
Buona notte a tutti!
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