Stay tuned! and other random thoughts!

This weekend I am venturing off to Cinque Terre and Genova!

I have a bazillion mosquito bites.

It is starting to get really cold at night.

I haven’t blow dried my hair in 3 weeks.

I finally found peanut butter–4,50 euro for about a cup of creamy Skippy pb. FYI, I prefer extra crunchy JIF and I can definitely use a cup of pb in less than a week.

I went to the Supermarket last week to buy sesame seeds for a salad I was making. I couldn’t find them anywhere, so I approached someone to ask…. “Scusi, parli englese?” Try describing or gesturing sesame seeds to an Asian employee in an Italian supermarket that speaks neither Italian nor English. Huh?

I have my first quiz in Italian on Thursday (martedi). I’m pretty stoked because I think I will breeze through it. I talked to my Italian professor, Enzo, today and expressed that I was already bored–the kids in my class are incredibly slow, they honestly don’t pick up anything even if Enzo explains it really slowly in english and shows a bazillion examples. He said that he could tell and if I want he can assign me some extra compiti (aka homework) …haha wow I sound like a total nerd right now but I really do want to learn the language! I think I’m picking it up so much quicker than the other students ..because I’ve already taken a foreign language and understand the general rules for masc/fem. singular/plural… and conjugating verbs, etc. So the concepts we’re learning now are so simple and basic I have to actually work at catching myself from blurting out all the answers (it helps that there are only 9 of us in the class otherwise I’d probably be real shy). Allora, it’s bedtime yo. Buonanotte mi amici!