Right so starting where we left off; Monday I spent most of the morning pottering around the house, de-puzzleing things from my bag and blogging. Giulia got home at 1.30ish and we had pasta for lunch (apparently the fact I said I liked pasta means it's the only thing that I want to eat and thus I have it generally twice a day... oh well its tasty so I’m sure I'll survive) and then crashed with the TeeVu until the end of siesta at which point we rugged up to head outside =S. After showing me the way to walk to school we met up with one of Giulia's friends and headed to the city centre via the metro.
We traipsed around for a bit before heading into a coffee shop for some coffee. By this time the sun had set and it was really quite chilly... did I mention that it was like 7ish? So yes the coffee shop; before we went in Giulia and her friend Erminia were pimping their hair in the glass door because apparently there was a hot boy working there that day. Giulia and Erminia decided that I just HAD to try this type of coffee which it turns out has Nutella (said nuu as is 'oh nu bru') spread over half of the glass and was very tasty. When we left the shop Giulia and Ermi thought the shop we were heading to was in opposite directions, we eventually went Giulia's way here we walked around for 20 mins before ending up outside the coffee shop again and then going Ermi;s way =D
While we were walking around we were 'come sei diciing things; 'come si dici what is in the sky but not stars or the moon' (clouds), 'come si dici *motions overtaking someone*', 'come si dici we don't know where we are' (lost). It was amusing and very time they tried to teach me a new word I gave them a little notebook to write it down in...
Tuesday was my first day at school and I was quite nervous about going; all I knew was that I wasn't in Giulia's class so I guess I was stressing about not knowing anyone and not being able to speak to anyone. Giulia's mum drove us in so she could organise stuff with admin and I got assigned to class 3G (which you say terzo gi so technically 3rdG but anyway). We were apparently running late for class as this point so Giulia took me to my classroom said something along the lines of 'this is Breanna, she's from Australia and in your class' to the first group of people she saw and then had to run of to her class. I was ushered into class where everyone proceeded to introduce themselves to me in about 3 mins, which when you consier there is about 20 people in my class gives everyone just under 10 seconds =S. if I wasn’t already nervous by then that would definitely have done it! One of the guys appeared back a few mins later with a table hoisted over his head and I was set up next to a lovely girl (who's name I only discovered a few days ago) before the teacher had even arrived! (in Italy the students stay in the same room while teachers move around).
Greta (the girl who's name I only just discovered) explained to all the teachers who I was and helps me with the translations of words that I don’t know. I had Italian as my first subject and the teacher said she would find me an Italian workbook and see if there were any lessons out side of school available for me to take. She was quite nice but it was apparent that the students didn’t really like her because they mostly ignored everything she said (and even started playing a card game at one point!). I also has Spanish and Design and yeah, I didn’t understand a thing that was going on except in Spanish when they said 'quando' (thanks to Deborah Milton and the Ritters for teaching me that!).
After class finished at 1 (yes you heard me correctly 1) I had to wait around at the cafe because Giulia had an extra class that finished at 2 and I wasn’t confident that I wouldn’t get lost on the walk home. I was quite content to sit in a chair near the heater by myself for the hour but some people from my class spotted me so I went and sat with them. They were having lunch before a 2 hour English class and were trying to finish the last of their homework. All I really understood of what was happening was they didn’t know the answers to some of the questions but didn’t want to ask me, despite the fact everyone was telling them too. In the end a couple did and over all it was more fun than sitting by the heater would have been.
The rest of the week at school was rather straight forward and I got into the swing of things pretty quickly... I think the little hang-out lunch sess helped in the fact that I got to know some of the people in my class and knew that they were going to look out for me. I've got I really nice set of teacher (most of which don’t speak English) and they don’t seem to mind that I completely ignore them to work on my grammar book and then suddenly start paying attention to them when I understand something. Italian teacher I've already written about, Spanish I really didn’t pay any attention to because I was having enough trouble with Italian, Design the lady is rather strict and gets annoyed when people talk but she is apparently very boring so they just quietly ignore her. My Physics teacher is TINY and is her head up about halfway up my chest but she seems quite nice, my science teacher seems to be putting up with me intently following her teaching at one moment and then completely ignoring her the wrest so that's good, my Maths teacher is quite funny in class we were learning 'zeri di una funzione' and he kept checking that I new what we were doing and trying to translate the headings for me... I can sort of follow the content in maths, well enough to wish that I'd done specialist maths (if anyone would like to tell me the what ƔЄ mean that would be most appreciated!). I havent managed to meat my History teacher yet because i've missed both Monday's so far and that seems to be the only day we have History. My English teacher is very nice and gave me my time table and everything, they've changed my classes around so that I have extra Italian so I can learn better (personally I think that extra of the sciences would be more helpful but anyway). We also have and English teaching assistant who's from Ireland... she's very nice and has the most amusing accent.
Right so somewhere in the last week was Australia day, and I’m sure you all had a lovely time watching fireworks and getting wrapped up in flag mania. Well guess what I did? I ate a Vegemite sandwich while listened to Men at Work. It was quite nice but Tibs tells me a missed some new fireworks this year, oh well I guess that just means more new ones next year!
Right so that covers most of the week and all the boring schooly stuff. Sorry I didn’t get this up earlier (despite the houndings I was getting). There will be another update soon(ish) with what I did over the weekend (and how my party was). I’m planning to try and update every week(or so) at least for the moment but I’m sure the frequency will change somewhat!
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