Well last night was completed my first week in Italy! It's gone by so fast. It hasn't hit me that I'm staying here for a year. Weird but I know it will or it should. I think?
Friday night dinner with Anna and Diego was pretty good. We had pizza and Claudia made about 5. I had a slice of each. Hello Rotary 15. We watched an Italian film and even though for about 3/4 of the movie I had no idea what was going on, it was pretty cute.
Saturday was a lazy day. I finished my first impressions report (turns out it's not due for another 3 weeks. Now my next report is due in October! Woohoo, break!) and just lazed around. Then Claudia, Nicola, Carla and I went into Gorizia to do some stuff before we went out to dinner. At dinner, I met a ton of people. Like 12. A lot of people sitting at a table. We had pizza that night too. My pizza was the size of my dinner plate! And it was all for me! Also, Italians don't eat pizza like we do with our hands. They cut it up. Needless to say, I looked like a 6 year old. Plus there was this cute guy sitting across from me watching me have trouble cut my pizza and then stuff the rather large slice into my mouth. Then he goes, cuts his pizza and eats it like a normal person. Oh well, too late to turn back, is what I thought. I also think I involuntarily signed myself up for a triathlon club. So, we were talking and the girl was saying how she was the only girl on the running team and I pipe up, "I'd love to run with the team!" Then later on they were talking about a race they had on Sunday and I asked, "What's the distance?" Thinking, it's a regular 5k cross race. No, 2k run, 250 meter swim and 10k bike. A triathlon. The team is a triathlon team. Time to learn how to swim well and bike well. It'll keep me busy though.
Yesterday, I went to camp. I know I said language camp but it's really just a summer camp. We're touring north Italy for the week and I'm with 7 others in my group. Two of them are full time exchangers, one from India, one from Australia and the rest are just here for the camp. It's a pretty awesome group though. Plus I can practice my Italian with the vendors and translate for everyone. The girl from Australia has been in Trieste for the past 7 months and is completely fluent even though she came here knowing not a word. Good sign for me I hope.We're in Corovado and there was a Renaissance festival going on. My first Renaissance festival and it's in Italy! How awesome is that? So I got to walk around with the other kids and watch the parade go around and watch some of the games. A little background: The town has four sections and where we were, we were gold and black. In each game/competition who ever won got points. The games have been going on for the past week. So last night at 8:30, the lady who we were with screams, "We won!" It was pretty cool. I think they all partied hard into the night. I left at 11:20 and they were still going at it.
Today, we went to Trieste. We rode the train. A train, yes, a good old train! And we went to a castle that was Maximilian and his wife, Catherine's house. (Maximilian was the emperor of Mexico way back when. To say the least, I want to live there. It was so cool but we couldn't take pictures so I'm happy with my memories. Then in the afternoon we went to another castle and the main church of Trieste. I freakin love castles now. Here they're amazing and I think living in one of them with your knight in shinning armor is the way to go.
I had the biggest gelato today. I split it with two others in my group. It had peach slices and all these magnificent gelato flavors in it. Yeah, I'm pretty happy.
Tomorrow we go to Udine for an air show and then the next day we're in Venice! Venice! The place of my dreams. I can't wait for it. Then we spend the next two days at the beach and then I'm back home, preparing for my first day of school on Monday.
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