Civic Duties 11-12-12

We had Italian for the first hour of class and I read my book. No surprise.  Then we had physics and I tried to follow along with the lesson.  Some of it was easy and some of it was hard.  After break, we had English and we continued with the “Elizabeth” movie.  It’s actually pretty good, but I don’t think anybody in the class can understand it, except for me and maybe two others.  Then we had math and informatics in the computer lab.  Some of my friends were taking a test so I sat there and watched them.  During the informatics hour, I did the same. 

When I got home, lunch was ready soon after and I had to eat really fast because Janie and I had this foreigner thing we had to go to at my school.  Right when I was finished eating I met Janie and her host dad downstairs and we were dropped off at the school. 

The meeting was for our residents permit because when we received it, it said that we had to attend this session or else we would lose 15 out of 16 of our points.  I don’t really know what the points do, but I sure didn’t want to lose 15 of them.  We got to the room with all of the other foreigners and we sat down in the back of the room.  Then we were separated into different rooms based on our language I think.  Janie and I went to the computer room and we were each given an English CD and headphones.  This was the start of the most boring 5 hours of my life!  We had to watch 5, hour long videos about the rules to living in Italy and the way of life with the same two people talking in monotone voices.  None of it (or at least what I was listening to) had anything to do with me or information that I needed to know.  It was all about how to rent or buy an apartment, getting a job, putting your kids in school, etc.  There was even a part that caught my attention about how you can’t slaughter animals in your apartments in Italy because it is against the rules and the blood might leak into the hallway.  Okay, I’ll make a mental note.

Janie and I would periodically skip ahead about 5 minutes throughout each video because we weren’t listening anyway.  The first hour or two, Janie and I passed notes and played hangman.  Then Janie drew for the rest of the time and I did Sudoku, because luckily, Janie had brought it with her.  During the last video, we skipped the last 10 minutes and turned in the CDs.  Janie’s host dad picked us up and I was dropped off at home at 7:30.   Then we had dinner. 

Now I’m going to re-watch the movie that I’ve been watching for the last week because I have nothing better to do, except sleep.  But I’m not tired just yet.  It’s only 8:40.

Ciao!

~Devon