A little bit of chaos this morning. My alarm rang at 6:30, the normal time and I pressed snooze... or at least I thought I did. Filippo came and knocked on my door and I looked at my phone thinking 'this is strange' and it was 7:53! I guess I accidentally pressed the off botton. I didn't actually look at it when I pressed the botton, I just felt for the button and pressed it. I got ready as fast as I could and then Nadia ended up taking me to school because Filippo had to leave to go to his school because he's a gym teacher. When we got there, we went to the secretaries office and got my tardy all taken care of and then I went to class. I was only 20 minutes late.
For the first 30 minutes of class, I read Memoirs of a Geisha, but then the history/philosophy teacher told me to read about the French Revolution in Italian. I tried to focus for the first couple of paragraphs but my eyes weren't having it, and my mind definitely wasn't either. I ended up slightly covering my eyes so that the teacher couldn't see me and I closed them for a while until I could feel myself starting to nod off and I didn't want anybody to notice so I would have to force my eyes open again. Sometimes I would blink and my eyes would stay closed until I realized that I was falling asleep again! It was terrible, the time was going by so slow. I tried to read but I couldn't make any sense of what I was reading. I think it would have been the same if it was english as well. I was way too tired. The third hour of class was art and I read Memoirs until the end when the teacher told me that I have to write something on italian and english garden layouts or something so I'm planning on doing that tomorrow. We had our break and then went to another room for English because the American was teaching today. She started off the class by saying that she didn't realize there was an American in our class so she asked who it was and then I talked with her about where I live and why I'm here and what not. The rest of the time, I just helped the people around me with their assignments. During chemistry, my online book wasn't loading so I started to read about the art stuff because I didn't have anything else to do. The last class of the day was math and she gave me a website to search for on the computer to teach me about what the class is learning. It was very helpful and I did that for the whole class.
I have been extremely cold all day today, but then again, I always am. During lunch my whole body was shivering like crazy. After lunch, I sat with Giulia by the heater for a little while and we talked. Then her friends showed up because they all had to go to a funeral today. A short while later, they left and I went to my room to take a nap. I didn't end up getting to sleep and then Nadia dropped me off at the school at 4.
During lessons, the teacher helped me with my Italian homework a little bit and then we ended up talking for the rest of the hour about our lives and what not. Didn't learn anything new, but I got a lot of practice which is better anyway. Janie had to go to the grocery store afterwards and then we headed to the pub.
In the center, we met up with my friends from yesterday and walked to the pub together. We got a table and talked for about an hour. Towards the end, Janie and I were trying to translate english jokes into italian. That was funny enough as it is. At 7:30, Filippo picked me up in the center and we went home for dinner.
I was freezing cold throughout dinner so when I was finished eating, I stood by the heater for the rest of the time. I talked with Nadia and Giulia for about an hour and then I started to fall asleep standing up so I figured it was time to start getting ready for bed. When I got to my room, I sat on the floor and re-wrote my Italian thing on a nicer piece of paper, which ended up taking an hour.
I will probably stay up as long as physically possible tonight because that's just what I do, but I don't think it will be too long from now before I pass out from exhaustion.
Buonanotte!
~Devon
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