Festa di Cibo!

This past weekend was the Gustiera di Frontiera in Goriza. It translates to Taste of the Frontier. So the short version is, an awesome weekend with food from all over Europe and getting fat from all of it. I was able to sample Slovenian food, French food, German food, Mexican (which is better in Colorado) and more. It was really interesting. In the town they had Borgos set up. Borgo is another name for small place. So there was Borgo Latina, Borgo Germanian, Borgo Italiana, you get the picture. I got a pretzel for the first time since I left Colorado! Plus they made the food right in front of you so it was all fresh. There was also farm vendors selling their harvest. I had some really good apple and peach juice.
Here's a very cool story: I was fooling around in class with a euro, flicking and spinning it on the table. Euro coins are good for this kind of fooling around. So I brought out a quarter. Instantly my friend was like, "What's that?" A quarter, no big deal. I let him see it and he told me it was so cool. I go into my wallet and find a quarter with a state on it to show him. A lot of my classmates came over and were in awe just because of a quarter. I had to remind myself they'd never seen this kind of money before and it was like me when I saw a euro for the first time. I thought it was cool.
Also, because I speak English, my classmates think I don't speak Italian. My friend is my helpful translator at times and this last week at school, one of the guys in my class comes up to us and he tells my friend, "Ask her if she was at the track last night?" I understood every part of that sentence and I turned to him, looked him in the eye and said, ask me directly! in Italian. I'm making myself talk in Italian so I can learn a language and communicate with them. This actually seemed to work. Now I talk in Italian with a mixture of English words that I don't know in Italian. Everyone seems to get what I'm saying and I'm understanding more everyday.
I get questioned about if boys and girls in my school are like those on TV. Well, yes and no. Yes we do have mean girls but no they don't attack each other in the cafeteria over a boy. I tell them that people at my school are just like them. That we're all the same. Have to break down the stereotypes some how.