Matelica

I hate waking up early! I wish I could just sleep all day long, but I did get to bed at 11 last night, which is a reasonable hour considering we eat dinner around 8:30.  I did my usual get ready for school routine this morning and then I walked to school.  I could see my breath.  Before we left the apartments, Alessio and I were waiting for another kid to walk with us to school, but he slept in and so we left him. I guess this is what happens every Monday, according to Alessio.

During the first hour of class, we had a free period, or something like that, and an English teacher was watching over our class.  I'm always surprised when the English teachers can't speak very good English, or if they can't understand me when I speak English, which is what happened today.  Then we had physics and it was easier because of the formulas.  Once I learn the formulas, I will be able to do the work easier.  After break, the Italian teacher who teaches me in private came to get me for the last two hours of class.  I feel like I'm able to understand some things that people say in Italian, but I'm not any closer to speaking it.

When I got home, we had lunch and then around 3, Janie and I went to one of Janie's friend's house in Matelica (about 15 minutes from Fabriano) and Elisabeth, the friend, speaks very good English.  We met up with two more girls and we went down to the center of the city because there were a bunch of street vender-ish shops all down the streets.  Before we got to the center, we stopped at a beautiful church to look around.  The priest also gave us a tour of this house place that this one person stays in sometimes.  I can't really remember what it was, but it was pretty! And I guess not many people usually get a tour of it, but the priest was very enthusiastic about showing us everything.

The church

The ceiling of a room

  Janie and I

When we got to the shops, we walked around forever! I don't like to shop, so I just gave my opinion about the stuff that the other girls picked out.  The center of Matelica is super beautiful and I would've taken a picture, but there were a ton of people around and I don't like to look like a tourist.  Of course I took pictures of some of the other streets because nobody was around.  Anyway, around 7:30, we ended our shopping and walked backed to Elisabeth's house.  We hung out until around 8 and then we had pizza! Again, there were like 5 different kinds, and I tasted almost all of them! I also had my first Italian beer (just a little bit).  After drinking some of it, the other people were mixing it with pepsi, so I tried it, and odd enough, it tasted really good.

We were picked up around 9 by Janie's host dad and dropped off at the church where we had this church group thing again.  There was a bunch of talking that I didn't understand, and around 10, when I was ready to go home, we played a game that took another 45 minutes. I'm not getting to bed early tonight.  Today was fun, but my feet hurt and I wanted to be to bed like 2 hours ago!

A smaller street in Matelica

The view of the center of Matelica

Ciao!
~Devon