My last two weeks of living in Italy have been filled with traveling! First on May 13th, Jessica and I flew to Pisa. I think Pisa is my favorite place in all of Italy. Its a small town and you can walk to almost anywhere by foot. The square with the leaning tower is so beautiful and peaceful. There were people scattered around laying in the grass, many people posing with the tower, and a row of shops with souvenirs. We stayed there two nights, on the second day Tsveta and Emelia arrived.
The Italian two class has started and my brain is overwhelmed with knowledge! We had a week off of class before the second one started and in that week I feel like I lost a lot of what I had learned because I spent most of my time with Tsveta and Jessica speaking english. So now I really need to crack down and focus on conquering this language because the teacher is now only speaking in italian! It is tough!
here is a church in San Giovani that I visited when my administrators came to visit.
This past week has been an eventful one. On wednesday I finished my Italian one lesson! And today I got the certificate for it and went through a maze of buildings to to find the one woman who has the stamp to make it official. Our teacher told us to go to cubo 17b, so we did. And the people in 17b said no go to 17a. Well we went outside saw 17c but no 17a. So we took the stairs 8 flights down, walked around the building and there was 17a! When I saw nothing here is in order, I mean absolutely nothing! Its amazing how students here can function with such an unorganized system!
This past weekend was easter and I did some traveling to avoid getting stuck, bored, on campus! On Thursday me and several other exchange friends took a day trip to Diamante, a small town on the coast about and hour and a half away from cosenza. It was a beautiful day and it felt nice to sit on the beach and watch the waves. This town is famous for its murals on the buildings. Years ago artists couldn't afford canvas so the painted on the sides of the buildings and still today artists come to put the mark on the town.
Today starts Vacanzedi Pasqua (easter vacation)! I had my Italian lesson this morning and we learned about al ristorante (the restaurant) and how to say things like 'i like this...' and 'i don't like that...' so it will be very useful the next time I go out to eat. Every day it seems to get warmer and warmer, but still most of the Italians are wearing all black, coats, and scarves. While I am in my flip flops and tank tops. The stare at my feet, they must think I'm crazy, but the feeling is mutual.
Saturday night (sunday morning at 2) we turned our clocks forward an hour. I didn't know they did this until that night! thank goodness some friends told me or I'd still have my clocks set to the wrong time. Saturday was a sunny warm...no it was a hot day! It seems spring is in full swing here and to celebrate we moved our living room furniture to my balcony to enjoy to nice weather
