A day in the life

I have lots to tell you all about my weekend adventures, but that will have to wait until after I finish my homework and classes tomorrow.  Today will be some random stories I have left to tell of the past week.   

Last week our art history class went on a trip to the Uffizi museum which I referenced in my last post's title. It was originally a palace that was made into an art museum to hold the many frescos that reside in Florence. We were waiting outside of this ancient museum and on a bench nearby a young attractive(they're always attractive) european couple were making out and having the time of their lives.  At one point he even picked her up and twirled her around. This was 10 A.M..  Of course all of us were slightly bewildered and awkward, but the rest of Florence was unfazed by the couple.  We quickly have found out since then that PDA (public displays of affection) is very normal here. We just try and keep ourselves together and not gawk.

The dinners here just keep getting better and better at Mamma Lo's house.  The first half of the dinner we speak in Italian to each other to try and immerse ourselves into the language, however, telling stories of the day is very difficult when one only knows so many words and tenses.  After a while we give up and cannot help our exclamations about the food in English.  It's so wonderful to have our "family dinners" as we call them.  Sometime Michael (our German student who lives with us) joins us and it's just a full happy table 6 eating dinner and chatting away.  Our last dinner together was a going away dinner for Michael because he is leaving us to go study in Rome for a year. Sad for us.  We had the most delicious pasta that night though, with a pumpkin sauce...I didn't know such wonderful things existed!  I relished every bite and Michael seemed very amused as I did my happy food dance.  He probably thinks we're crazy American girls, but we all genuinely liked him and I think he'll miss us a little too. We might even visit him in Rome!  

Last story is about this awesome Italian clothing designer named Geoffre.  He speaks barely any English but owns this shop that we pass every day on our way to school.  Jenny introduced us to him one day and now we see him all the time and we say Ciao!  He is very sweet and tries to speak English to us as Alexa usually translates his Italian and Jenny and I stand there and smile because we have are now friends with a real Italian designer...sweet :)

That's all I have time for for now, but I will write later. A Domani!