It's been awhile since a post, so here we go, I will update you on this last week of mine. It isn't too interesting, just the same old same old, sitting around day to day and practicing at night.
Last Wednesday night (the 12th night of Christmas) was the arrival of the Italian "santa claus" La Befana; a women who flies around on a broom placing presents or coal in stockings for those children good and bad. (Again you can read my previous blog and click on the link if you want to know more about La Befana). But unlike santa claus, she is believed to be a person of the bible, that the 3 Wise Men met on their travels to see Baby Jesus; they apparently asked her to join them and she didn't, but later thought she should have so left on a broom to find them but was never able to, so she is still searching to this day for the Baby Jesus, that is why she leaves gifts in each child's home because she isn't sure where Jesus is. Again this is all taken from looking it up online. I guess Thursday is considered to be her birthday, so there is some sort of celebration for that. But last Thursday, Adriana and I sat in the house and made lunch and dinner together and talked (in broken Italian) because we both thought that everything was closed (because usually on holiday's the town shuts down). But around 11pm Antonio came by to fix our TV's and he decided to tell us that everything was actually open today and there was a HUGE celebration and market like thing in the center of town, and he thought we knew, yes you are probably thinking the same thing I was thinking (now how could I have possibly known that everything was open? I don't know how this town works.) So Adriana and I just laughed because we both realized that we had been sitting in the house the whole day, going CRAZY!
But this whole week Adriana and I have become pretty good friends! We have gone to the weight room together, sat on the bus near each other and talked, made several meals together, gone grocery shopping, planned our next day off. Its pretty funny, seeing as she speaks NO english, and I speak very little Italian, but she seems to know that and will make her sentences very simple and usually just asks me yes or no questions, and it works!!
Yesterday (Saturday) we had an away game in Rome, close to the airport, we won 3 games to 0! I guess that team is in last place or something, and I can see why. So now we are 11-0 and I think we have played everyone, or almost!
Well thats all for now...
Italian word/phrase of the day: hai dormito bene? "did you sleep well"
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