Progress

11/9/12

The first two hours of class were history and philosophy and I had the computer so the teacher told me to research the beginning of the American Revolution (which I am very familiar with) because I am going to have to write about it in Italian on the test day.  Writing about it is easy; it’s the Italian part that will be hard.  I’m probably going to write it ahead of time so that I can have my friends help me translate it and then I can memorize the Italian version so that I don’t make a ton of mistakes on the test.  The next hour of class was art and the teacher was talking about the renaissance the whole time so I worked on my Italian homework.  During break I checked my email and then we had English.  We went to another room and we watched part of a movie.  I think it was called Queen Elizabeth and it was in English so I could actually understand something! 

The next hour of class was supposed to be biology, but I guess there was a class meeting because the class presidents (two of them) went to the front of the room and the class talked for the hour.  I think most of the conversation was about the English teacher.  Then we had math and I practiced writing sentences with my left hand and then I searched for stuff on the computer. 

After lunch, I watched another movie because that’s all I can really do.  Then I walked to lessons and for the two hours, we did exercises on the computers.  After that I tried to update my blog but pretty much all of the websites except for google were blocked.  Or at least the email and blog websites I was trying to get to. 

I was supposed to go to the gym today and I had all of my stuff with me, but I just wasn’t feeling up to it so I called Lorena and told her that she didn’t have to pick me up at the gym because I was just going to go out with friends instead.   We met up with Janie’s host sister and then we walked to the pub.  We stayed there until around 7:30 and talked with friends.  After being dropped off at home, I ate dinner and I still have to finish the movie I have been watching for the past two nights.  I’ve only been watching a little bit every night so that it can last me a while.  I only have to movies on my computer and I have a month without internet.

The bright side of being internet-less is that I get to bed A LOT earlier now.  I think I’m actually getting my 8 hours every night.  Possibly more.  I also get to listen to more music, but I can’t get new music until I have internet! 

Ciao!

~Devon