Friday I decided to get up and go to school. I wanted to go to the English class that was at 11:30 because that teacher teaches us Italian while the other kids are learning English. Lynnea and I got up and got dressed, walked to the cafe around the corner, got some coffee, then headed to the school. We rang the little buzzer at the gate, and told them we were the American girls (in Italian), then headed up the steps to our classroom, to find that it was empty. The woman in the office pulled us in and was said "hi, do you want to speak to the president?"We told her no, that we had just come to go to class. She got the english teacher to come in and explain to us why there was no one in the class. Still not too sure on why there wasn't any class, but from what I understood from the teacher, that day happened to be the day where they get together and discuss the problems happening in the school, or something along those lines, and the kids have what they call an assembly. So all the kids of the school are in one classroom. So when we heard that, we figured someone would be leading some sort of class or something, so we went down to check it out, WRONG. Apparently when this happens, they put all the kids in one room, with no teacher, and a couple of the older students lead the class. Which we discovered is hardly any type of lesson, all they did was pass around little pieces of paper where the students could write whatever they wanted on it anonymously and then they would put it in a hat, and read it aloud in front of the whole class. Interesting, yes, we didn't quite understand what was happening, we were waiting for a teacher to come walking in any minute, but nope, didn't happen.
Today, Saturday, I woke up and decided I was going to figure out what cinema was playing Harry Potter 7 in English. One of our teammates lives in Rome, so she was able to tell me what cinema was playing and at what times. So since no one wanted to go with me, I hopped on a train at 3:00 and ventured off to Rome. When I arrived in Rome, I got to the main train station, Termini. At this station you can do everything, leave, shop, catch the metro, get buses, etc. So I got on the Metro and headed to the stop that went by the Piazza del Popolo. When I got there, I walked through the Piazza and found my way to the Metropolitan cinema, only to find that the movie at 5:15 was sold out, but no worries there was one at 7:15, still leaving me time to see it and make it back to the train station to catch the train back! So I bought the ticket and them headed into some of the shops around the cinema. I went into this H&M which I remembered is the same store that Megan, and Morgan (teammates at UNC) and I went into when we came on our team trip! It was crazy to me that I had found the exact same spot! In some of the stores, I was able to successfully communicate with people, and then they would send over someone who spoke english, without me asking.
After the shopping, it was movie time, I went into the cinema and it was fun to see all the different people there to watch the film in English, there were people from several different countries. It was interesting, for one, at the cinemas here you have assigned seats, and they are super super comfortable seats with plenty of leg room!
After the movie was over, I got back on the metro where I met a nice couple, they were speaking in English, so I decided to ask them where they were from and we had an awesome conversation as we exited at the same stop! They were super nice and fun to talk to! Then I got back on the train and headed back to Fondi, where Maria picked me up!
Italian word/phrase of the day: fa freddo "its cold"
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| view on the way to school |
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| Piazza del Popolo |
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| and again! so pretty! |
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