Finally all caught up!

February 23, 2011

I was so happy to go to bed last night when I did and I actually ended up waking up this morning before my alarm clock! I think my sleep is back on track and I’m definitely starting to feel as good as I felt when I was in Spain (health-wise). This morning in Italian Gloria asked us if we would like to go to a local school and speak Italian with the students there like the Italian II class did. We all thought that sounded like a really neat idea! She told us that we would speak for about 30 minutes in Italian to challenge us, and then speak 30 minutes in English to possibly challenge them, even though many Italians know really good English. In the middle of class Gloria also brought up that she watched another episode of Inspector Barnelby, or whatever that British show is that she watches, and she came across another word she didn’t know and she told us it was “im-pluck-ibly.” We laughed for such a long time and she just kept saying it over and over and over again stressing “pluck” and none of us could understand what she was trying to say. Eventually Ivy looked it up on her computer and realized she was trying to say implacably, which Gloria still pronounces “im-pluck-ibly”….she’s too stinkin’ cute!

After class Marissa, Danielle, and I went up to the library to scan our Visas and print out different things (I printed out my papers to fill out to work at Pepperidge again this summer). We had to scan our Visas because tomorrow we have to go early in the morning to the Police Station to get fingerprinted for our stay permits and need a ton of different pieces of paper and documents in order to get fingerprinted. I was able to get the rest of my pictures uploaded and onto my computer, which works out much better at the school because their internet is much faster and I don’t run the risk of being kicked off the internet there.

When all three of us were finished at the school we decided to go to Conad and buy things to make dinner for tonight and tomorrow night, because we miss making family dinners like we had been doing a couple weeks ago. We decided tonight to have chicken with eggplant and zucchini and for tomorrow night we would try and make one of Marissa’s favorite shrimp and pasta dishes that her mom makes. While in the store we saw this long thing of bread up on the counter and I suggested we get some to eat with dinner tonight and when I picked it up the bread was still warm and smelled heavenly, so I decided to get another loaf of it to eat myself. Leaving the grocery store I immediately broke into my bread and started devouring it…it was so warm and so soft and so delicious. It ended up becoming my lunch along with a banana...I guess adding a banana to a whole loaf of bread makes it healthier, right? Haha. Before I knew it it was already time to go back to school for European Issues. This kid in our class Vince started a discussion which I couldn’t follow and ended up lasting 40 minutes into the class. Our teacher realized this and handed the show over to Isabelle who did her presentation today on the prime minister of the U.K.

 After class we came home and started making dinner and we decided to put this spice rub on our chicken and along with the garlic it smelled heavenly! When we went to dig in we realized that it was much spicier than we anticipated, which Danielle wasn’t really a fan of, but me and Marissa loved it! Danielle ended up buying this little tiramisu cake from Conad for dessert and it was absolutely delicious…we should invest in those a little more often! While we were eating dinner we watched the most recent episode of Gossip Girl. And after the episode was over I started typing all of my blogs from the weekend which takes so much longer than one would think, but if I didn’t do it now then it would never get done because in two days I’ll be off to Rome and would have even more to write about! Luckily after the longest time I got them all done and all of my pictures up so now everyone can enjoy, I can shower, go to bed, and prepare to wake up super early and spend 3 hours at the police station tomorrow morning getting fingerprinted….can’t wait!