Exchange

The first hour of class was informatics and I commenced reading The Lovely Bones.  The next class was art and we went to the computer lab so I brought my Italian book, but I didn't end up reading any of it because I was talking with my friends.  After break, we had physics and I started to read online again.  I was going to read through the two hours of Italian as well but the computer was overheating or something and making a loud noise so I turned it off and read my Italian book for the first hour.  I was going to turn the computer back on to read The Lovely Bones again but I remembered that the computer makes a loud noise when it turns on and I didn't want the teacher asking me any questions or thinking it was a phone so I just read my Italian book the rest of the time.

After lunch, I got ready for lessons and then relaxed for about 30 minutes.  At 4, Filippo took me to the school. Janie, the teacher, and I ended up talking about random things for the first hour of lessons and then probably got about 2 worksheets done the next hour.  I feel like I learn a lot more when we talk though because it helps me practice.

Then Janie and I were supposed to meet two people who applied to do an exchange in the U.S. next year.  The girl told Janie to meet her at this one caffe and Janie told her she knew where it was so we walked to the center and Janie told me she "thought" she knew where it was.  We ended up standing in one place for a while trying to figure out what to do because Janie didn't have the girl's number and we didn't know who to ask.  We started to walk the opposite way and we luckily ran into some other friends who pointed us in the right direction after laughing at us for going the wrong direction.

We arrived at the caffe and nobody was there so we started to get confused and we hoped that we weren't so late that they left.  The girl ended up showing up a couple minutes later and then the other guy right after.  We talked with them (in Italian!) for about an hour and it was really nice!  We are hopefully going to get together again soon.

They had to leave around 7:10, so Janie and I walked around the gardens once and then walked to her house because I was being picked up at 7:45.  We hung out there for a couple of minutes and then I went home for dinner.  During dinner, I found out that one of the kids we met with today lives right behind me! I also watched some snowboarding on tv with my host parents and then went to my room to get ready for bed.

I know I said I was going to get to bed before 11 last night.... but I didn't.  It never works out... maybe, MAYBE tonight I will.

Buonanotte!
~Devon