Wednesday, March 18th
Due to the rainy weather and the fact that all of us had way
too much work left to do on our midterm papers, Professor and Danilo gave us a
day off from classes yesterday so that we could get caught up on our work. And
after a few solid hours of working on the paper, I’m finally done!
On Wednesday morning, we had Italian class in town in Castel
Gandolfo! Danilo had us practice how to order our cappuccinos and breakfast,
and he also taught us how to introduce ourselves, say our age, and where we are
from, and also how to ask questions in order to have a conversation with
someone. As usual, he had us practice by letting us go into the deep end!
(Luckily, people in Castel Gandolfo are very kind and understanding!!) He had
each of us practice by speaking to Italians who live in town and for the most
part, we all did really well! It was surprisingly helpful because they were all
very sweet, and pleased that us Americans were trying to learn their language.
We ended up meeting some very wonderful people… One lady even asked to take a
group picture with us!
After Italian, we grabbed lunch at the local Tabacchi store
and headed back to campus! We got another free afternoon so that we could
finish up any work we had left to do, or even go into the city if we wanted to
before dinner. It was a very relaxing afternoon and after dinner we had a movie
night and watched The Terminal… which was very appropriate with us being in a
foreign country and having experienced a lot of similar struggles.
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