Arroooooooooooooooo!

I had pictures to go with this, but the internet fails, so instead you get a long wordy post. Horrah!

Yesterday it started pouring down rain while we were at school. And hailing!! Somehow it was hailing when it was 80ish degrees out! This city makes no sense, but I still love it. Peter decided to be all generous and told us we could stay out later than our usual curfew. Most people were overjoyed (I was indifferent as time really has no meaning to me here) and we all decided to meet in il Campo (the big square…well, it’s a circle, where they hold the Palio and such).

So everyone was excited to experience the Siena night life, we had dinner early and got to il Camp early and there were people out, sitting and chatting and it was great just to be outside when it wasn’t a million degrees out. Then more of our group shows up and it starts raining. But it was mostly raining on the other side of the square (circle) so a few of us were still out in the rain when it comes rushing towards us from the other side. A wave of rain came rushing at us and we ran for an archway to the cheers and laughing of some drunken men at an outdoor restaurant nearby. We made it before the rain-wave caught us.

And the next day I bought an umbrella. It’s incredible here…everyone has an umbrella. I’m used to Oregon where it was always kind of wussy to use an umbrella unless there was a monsoon going on. But I thought about it a bit and people here wear designer clothes instead of Birkenstock’s and Hawaiian shirts so they actually have clothes worth protecting. Though, I did see a Birkenstock store here. So everyone has umbrellas and it’s the coolest thing to see a massive herd of umbrella-y people strolling down the street. And every store has little umbrella buckets to put them in while you shop. And I bought a bright yellow one.

Today we went out to dinner (and got completely ripped off, mind you) and this guy was having dinner with a girl and he just kept blabbering on and on. We could here him talking the whole time and almost never heard her. Then he goes off about facebook, “if I wrote on other people’s walls more they would write back on mine. That’s how it goes.” And I just started laughing, because he was saying how he could create the illusion of popularity if he wanted to put in the time but he didn’t because he didn’t care…but I think he really did care. Looooooooooooooooooook  do you see that “look” the insane cat we live with typed that. No joke. I think he is trying to tell us something. Also, he can Apparate because I will leave a room that he’s in and he will just be in the next room I go into. It’s like the First Edition cat, I just don’t know whose life he wants me to save.

So it’s cold and rainy now. It literally happened in one day’s time. It’s nice because Fall weather is my absolute fave but also strange because we used to be “literally sweating to death” everyday, (note: if that had literally been true I literally would not have been able to make such a statement, because I would be dead…literally). Sharlie and I literally had a discussion about people only using literally when they mean the opposite. We figuratively wanted to kill people who misuse it too often.

I feel like sleeping all the time. I don’t know if it’s jet-lag coming after me, or that baby mono I get sometimes, or just because it’s more inviting than homework, but I just fall asleep in the middle of the day…A lot.

We had really good potatoes yesterday but she said she wouldn’t tell us what was on them and that we would have to cook with her to find out. But they were delizioso.

People were singing in the streets last night and I have no idea why. There are always drums or bells or something going off around here. Our second night we walked into an internet café and a few moments later a group of people running a race jogged by…at 10 o’clock at night. There’s always something.

So Sharlie was telling me how she said, Mama Mia! To her host mamma at dinner and that she laughed a lot. So I kind of stole that concept and today we had carbonerra pasta which is eggs and ham in pasta. And she was like, “you want it without meat, Virginia wants it without meat OR eggs…” and I go, “mamma mia!” and she laughed. Success! It’s the ultimate Italian icebreaker. Keep that in mind.

Ate grapefruit yogurt today…The food here is incredible (in every sense of the word) I’m pretty sure I was meant to be Italian.

My homework was so hard this last weekend. Me and Elizabeth both wanted to cry because we had so much work that didn’t make sense. I actually felt sick at the thought of going to class. But it really wasn’t so bad today. Turns out, she seems to find my cluelessness a tad bit endearing and as long as I put myself out there and act like I’m trying I should be okay. But she talks really fast and still looks at me like I’m stupid. Which I kind of am, so it’s good.

Right now I’m having a really hard time thinking in English…Which I think is also good. I kind of wish I was on a Study Abroad like Angela where everyone knew the language at least a little. Because I need all the practice I can get.

So my skin is really hot...Like I should be running a temperature, but I'm not. And I don't really feel sick...But my face and neck are so hot.

Only one answer, must be becoming a werewolf...Or as I learned today un licantropo.