Just keep swimmin'

Ciao! Sorry I haven't written in the past few weeks. I get busy and then I don't have time to write so just  keep checking in when you have time to see if I've posted.

Well, here's what's been going on in my life:

A few weeks ago, I had dinner with my friend's family. It was really fun. We had pizza and watched "My Name in Tonino". It's such a cute movie. It's about an Italian boy who meets an American girl during the summer and they fall in love. Then a few months after she goes home, he comes to America for a surprise visit. It was really interesting seeing his view on America and how different it is from Italy. Just like my views on how different but yet the same America is from Italy. I also got a book called "Un Italiano in America". It's by an Italian journalist who lived in Georgetown for a year and it's his perception of Americans. It's really funny.

Then last week, I had a cross country race through the school. Originally, I though it was going to be practice, not a race. Then one of my friends who did it with me, told me the day before, Oh it's a race. Not practice. My mind kind of blanked at that. But I got 3rd and now I'm on the team for the race against all the schools in region. But it may not happen because the Italian government is thinking about cutting all after school activities, this includes sports, drama, ect. There have been a lot of strikes about this, the biggest being in Trieste, a few days ago. Next week, there will be a strike in Rome, that a lot of my teachers will be attending because they don't want this to happen. So we'll see what happens. 

On Wednesday, I went to Trieste for a Rotary lunch with the other exchange students. I got out of class early and I got to have pizza at a nice restaurant. So it was a good day. Not to mention, I got to hang out with the other exchange students after and get hot chocolate at this really cool bar. I had hot chocolate with Carmel in it. It was so good!!! I mean, I want some more of it. It was really windy in Trieste and I don't know how they put up with it. After standing in the wind for 5 minutes, I was already tired of it. I'll stick to rain, please.

Yesterday, I had a big cross country race. It was 4k and let's just say I was the fastest American but the last person. There was just 7 of us, which is a big change for me. When I do cross country with Battle Mountain, our races are about 100-200 people. So going from a large race to a very little race, that's a change for me. And everyone was saying how big the race was. What's a normal race like then?

School is good. I have this major organic chem test on Wednesday, that I'm sure will kill me. I had an English lit interrogation yesterday, and I think I scared the teacher a little bit. Oops. Though now, in that class, we've started Shakespeare. I can't wait to read Romeo and Juliet out loud for them. My Italian is coming along. I can get most of the present verb contexts and I just learned the difference for when to use Essere and Avere in the past. That always screwed me up so I'm really happy that I know how to use them now. 

Just keep swimmin' is my motto right now. That's what I've been doing and what I'll be doing. 

Ciao!