Gualdo

12-2-12

I had to get up early on my Sunday morning, but it was okay because we were going to Gualdo (another city) to be with another family for the day.  It is about 25 minutes or so from Fabriano.  We met up with the man and his daughter who was one year older than Janie and I.  We went with Laura (the daughter) to get breakfast at a little café and Janie and I got hot chocolate.  Then we went with Laura to the center of the city and we walked around for a while.  I took a lot photos. We went to building where there was a bunch of different displays in different rooms for people to advertise their businesses.  It was interesting.  It was a very beautiful city, but it was no Gubbio.  Then Laura drove us up to the mountains and we got to see the whole city from above. 

We went to her house for lunch and met her mom and her sister.  Lunch was super delicious and I was so full afterwards.  Everybody ended up leaving the house, except for the three of us, and we all sat by the furnace and played with Laura’s iPad.  When her parents got home, we took the car, picked up one of Laura’s friends, and went to the commercial center to for a presentation thing.  I guess one of their teachers wrote a book and she was talking about it.  There were a lot of people there. 

After about an hour, we went to another café and hung out with Laura and her friends.   We had to leave around 7:30 and we met up with Laura’s parents and sister to drive to Fabriano for dinner.   I felt like today was good for my Italian skills because Laura never spoke English with us and the family couldn’t speak English, so I was talking Italian the whole day.  I also understand most of what everybody said.  And when I didn’t, I pretended like I did and it all worked out.

We went to a pizza place and my host parents, Janie’s host dad, the family from Gualdo, and a Rotary member and his son, all had dinner together.  It was really nice, but Janie and I knew we weren’t going to be getting to bed early tonight.  We got home around 11. 

I haven’t gotten enough sleep since last Saturday night and now I’m going to have to suffer through another week of school without being able to sleep in!  I was starting to fall asleep today in the car when I was with friends.  I can’t even imagine what it’s going to be like trying to stay awake at school when I’m not doing anything.  Joy.

Buonanotte!

~Devon