I’m almost through my time here in Castenaso Italy. Time really does fly! I cannot believe I have already been here 6 days!!!! I know I haven’t been online a lot this week and Im sure everyone is wondering how Im doing, but my house family has to pay for the internet per use, so Ive kept that down to a minimum. But Im here writing again, so I will try my best to give the best play by play of the week so far.
We arrived on Sunday evening (after missing a train and having delay- thank goodness for Jules). Camp started on Tuesday so we had Monday free to do whatever we wanted! We decided since Bologna is so close, we would go and see what it was all about. It had a lot of great shopping, and although I did drool over some things, I didn’t buy anything. I am waiting to see something I fall in love with instantly, then I’ll make the purchase! So we did a bit of shopping and then went to the Piazza and saw some architecture. Two of the house mom’s don’t work so we got a nice little tour! :) We saw a Church that was intentionally made to be bigger than St Peter’s in Rome. However, when in construction, the Pope put a stop to any church being larger than St Peters, and alas, the one in Bologna is not finished! If you check out my pix you’ll see the top is much different than the bottom! As well, there are two towers in Bologna, one unfinished and one complete. Apparently, two very wealthy families wanted to see who could build the taller tower, but when they reached a certain height, they began to lean so one family stopped. The other finished and you can climb 500 steps to the top and check out the view of Bologna! Even decided to brave it and said it was really nice. I did it in Paris, that was enough steps for me! Ahaha
My house family is very nice. Giancarlo, Magda and Letizia. I have my own room with some cupboard space and shelves. They have been very accommodating, taking me to get a cell phone and to a festival (think veryyyyy small Corn Fest) so I have had a wonderful experience. Magda’s cooking is fantastic! My favourite dishes so far are a room temp pasta salad and homemade gelato!! Delicious. The gelato was green apple and vanilla. Sounds weird but it was incredible. At the festival we bought fried dough with warm nutella in the middle. It was incredible !! The best 500+ calories I have ever eaten! Ahahah I could have had about 20 but I refrained and had one lol
The kids at camp have been awesome! It’s a new camp and most of them are younger so their level of English isn’t very high. Its been tricky some days to get them to understand what I am saying and to cooperate. Fortunately, we have helpers who can translate if we really need them to. I had a group of 10 kids, 9-10 years old. I have taught them quite a few things and am happy with how things turned out. Tomorrow is our end of week show and I am a bit nervous. Although they have been practicing and learning their lines, they seem to forget or speak very quietly and mumble the words. I am not sure how to remedy this but I guess there isn’t much I can do now. I have tried my best with them and am hoping they will be wonderful, which I am sure they will! Everyone loves children. Our show is about the Olympics and different athletes. They came up with the idea themselves, I just put the script together for them.
The group of tutors I am working with are awesome. We’re all having a great time and are naturally meshing very well. I am very blessed to be working with the people I am. Jules is kind of the ring leader and rightly so, he’s been incredible and just completely an inspiration. I feel I have learned so much from him in one week, I really look forward to having another week working and learning with him!
Next week we head to Brescia. Sunday afternoon is our train ride. We have a connector in Verona, and only 10 mins to make the train, not going to lie, I hope we miss the connection so we can go see Juliet’s house in Verona! Ahahah It was on my list of things I want to do in Italy, so if I can do it on ACLE’s watch, why not !!?? PLUS, Verona is supposed to be breath taking, so it would be nice to be able to venture in the city for an hour or so. The next train would be 2 hours later, so that is what I am hoping for ;)
That’s about it for now. I am exhausted tonight! It has been go go go and for the first time, I’ll have almost everything done before dinner so I can actually relax a bit and maybe, if Im really lucky, be in bed around 9:30, 10 at the latest! Its 7:36 right now, and we haven’t eaten soooooo I am hoping for a quick dinner (not like wed when we ate for an hour), put some pix on their computer and call it a day
Peace and love and Italian food
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