Sick

This morning I woke up with a sore throat and I knew I probably got it from Janie, because she was complaining about having one yesterday.  Anyway, when I got to school, we had an hour of physics and I followed along, but it was hard to understand.  Then we had an hour of Italian where I took out a book that I found in my room and tried to read it.  I didn’t really understand anything, but I also had my English-Italian dictionary to help translate.  After that class, we had English and the only thing we did was read three paragraphs out loud.  I think it’s really cool to listen to Italians read English because their accents are so cool and I always wonder if I have an American accent when I speak Italian. 

The last two hours of class were math.  We are learning something that is extremely hard for me to understand, so I just copied what was on the board so that I can try to make sense of it later.  Then we went to the computer lab and paired up on a computer to do something on excel.  I’m not exactly sure what they were doing or how they were doing it.  I just sat and watched and felt bad about not being able to help. 

When I got home, I had lunch, skyped with my dad, and listened to music.  Starting today, I no longer have private Italian lessons during school, which is why the day seemed so long to me.  Now I have the lessons after school everyday except for Tuesday and the weekend.  Janie is going to start coming with me now too.  Around 3:45, Janie and her host dad came to pick me up and we went to the school.  Then for the next hour, we had our lesson and it was a lot slower because now there are two people to teach. 

At 5, we were picked up by Janie’s host dad, and brought to her house.  At 6:20, I went to the gym and did a step class with Giovanna.  I almost didn’t go to the gym today because I was still feeling sick, but I knew I would regret it if I didn’t.   I thought it was worth it to go.  Then I came back home and had dinner.  At 9, Janie was dropped off and we walked to the church for the church group.  We all sat in a circle again and everybody talked for a little less than 2 hours.  Janie and I had no idea what was going on the whole time. 

I got home at 11 to discover that the Internet wasn’t working.  I think it has something to do with the weather (overcast and rainy), so I am writing my blog post in a word document while everything is fresh in my mind so that I can just post it tomorrow morning before I go to school.  I really need more sleep since I’m sick, but I guess I will have to wait until tomorrow to go to bed early.  I also ended up going to bed late last night too… ugh.

Ciao!

~Devon

P.S. I just got the internet to work! But it's 12:30... I'm going to bed now.