Walking

I want to make this blog short because I am exhausted, but then again, I have so much to say! I woke up and did my normal routine this morning.  Luckily it didn't rain today so I didn't have to use an umbrella.  My Italian teacher wasn't at school today, so I had to stay in class.  We had physics, math, and Italian.  Physics was okay, and I was able to understand a tiny bit of it just because of the formulas on the board, but math class made me feel stupid.  They are doing stuff that I haven't learned yet and it is so hard to follow along.  I feel like I should be better at it since it is my favorite subject, but I'm not.  Then we had Italian and I just doodled and skimmed through my English-Italian dictionary.

When I got home from school, I had lunch and then relaxed for a couple of hours until Janie came over at 3.  We decided we were going to explore Fabriano by ourselves for the first time.  We walked around the public gardens and down to the center and we were talking like crazy.  I had forgotten what it felt like to speak English fast.  The people we walked by would always look at us weird.  Then we went to the Scale and played cards.  Neither of us knew many card games so we just ended up playing Go Fish and an Italian game with our American cards.  At around 6, we met up with some other friends and walked around to different shops, then we decided to head home at 7:15.  We stopped in some shops along the way and we thought we would try a different way to get home... bad idea.  We got so lost! Good thing Fabriano is a small town.  We were walking around small narrow streets for about 30 minutes until we finally found the center and took a familiar route home, getting there at 8.  We had to speed walk like mad women to get home on time.  On the bright side, the views were amazing and the weather was nice! I love the small Italian streets and the old buildings.  And now I'm glad that I know my way around the center of town.

Right when we arrived home, we left the house again to go to a small town about 10 minutes away for the Festa dell'uva with my host parents.  It means the party of the grape.  When we got there, we had dinner (too much food!) and Janie and I had our first (small) glass of wine in Italy with my host parents and their friends.  It was a wine party after all.  Then we went off on our own and walked around the town some more.  Everything was so loud.  People were drinking and talking and it was hard to understand what Janie was saying and she was right next to me.  Janie and I were ready to go before the adults were.  We finally left around 11:30 and I couldn't even keep my eyes open during the car ride home.  Now I'm struggling to keep them open now. Good thing I get to sleep in until noon if I want tomorrow. And my feet hurt so bad from walking around all day, but it was good exercise.

Well, it looks like I kept this blog somewhat short.

Until tomorrow! Ciao!
~Devon