Do Not Sit On The Choir

I'm sick...hot and cold at the same time with a splitting headache.

Took my midterms even though I could hardly remember my own name.

Today I watched television with Franco. The other three had cooking, which they didn’t inform Luigia of and she kind of flipped (they yell a lot here…that’s kind of just how communicating happens). She was really concerned about making too much and I said, “mangio piu” which means I will eat more and Franco laughed. I have to say I appreciate Franco a lot, he is my right-hand man, or rather, left-hand man because I often end up sitting to the right of him at the dinner table. But he laughs at my jokes*.

*anyone who laughs at my jokes gets a million bonus points in my book, without exception.

Today we went to Florence and I have to say there is amazing food. We had the most amazing focaccia bread in the world, I’m sure.

Friday:

We went to buonconvento which is a quaint little Italian town that looks just like the pictures…Infatti, here is a picture:

Saturday:

I can’t even begin to explain…

No words.

Today I:
. made an appointment to cut my hair, in Italian
. decided I might need Italian boots
. was asked for fashion advice by an Italian
. did homework
. bought tights and underwear
. was laughed at by a guy from California
. heard/participated in a lot of yelling and tearing up when they officially announced the building of the Rome temple
. celebrated the Palio victory of il bruco!!
. bowed to a Tibetan monk
. saw a group of lepers eating at a restaurant
. petted a donkey
. danced to Viva La Vida in Zanzibar
. passed through Afghanistan
. walked down a street cloaked in Chinese laterns
. got snowed on
. and am now listening as celebration music blares into our room from outside…coming from two different places.

Songs include:
Jitterbug
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
YMCA
Walk like an Egyptian
Songs from Grease
Hey Baby
The Twist
Great Balls of Fire!
Video Killed the Radio Star

more to come when I'm not sick.