ho venti anni...wow sei vecchia

Fried Ice Cream
We went to this great Chinese resturant in Siena the other night. We had fried ice cream there, but it was like super frozen and then deep fried. A ball of literally fried ice cream when it came out. I have no idea how they did it and I'm pretty sure its really bad for you but it was awesome!
My day
I may have found info on an environmental group in Florence, so I'm going to try and call them and get some information. Hopefully someone speaks English ok there. We'll see...Our interim director who is German came to Siena today. He's hilarious, we watched youtube videos about comedians doing parodies of American Politicians for awhile, then I read the international news which I like to do. There was a ridiculous article about Berlusconi, here's the link if you care to read it, but the beginning is the best,

ROME: This month, as markets plummeted and investors panicked, Italy's billionaire prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, watched shares in some of his own companies nose-dive 40 percent. Yet he seemed buoyant as ever, reveling until dawn at a disco in Milan after returning from a meeting with European leaders on how to tackle the financial crisis."If I sleep for three hours, I still have enough energy to make love for another three," the newspaper La Repubblica quoted him as telling the younger crowd. "I hope that when you hit 70, you're in as good shape as I am."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/22/europe/italy.php HAA soo ridiculous

Then later today I volunteered today at the Hospital with kids!!
It was a lot of fun to play with the kids in the hospital tonight and they were sooo cute! Its a bit of a challenge for me because I'm not so good with Italian. I generally get along great with kids, that speak English, but I wasn't so sure about this at first. Four of us went tonight though, so that was nice, and one of the girls with us spoke Italian very well. The Doctors that explained things to us were really nice and I mostly understood them, then we got some paper and colored pencils and books and hung out with the kids. I think that they are there long term for some reason, b/c they have school there and when they were playing tonight with us they had pajamas on. It must be a pretty good hospital too because they were from all over. Not too many kids, I mostly hung out with Roberta and Victorea who are both ten. I explained that I didn't speak Italian well and they were cute about it. Especially Roberta, Victorea spoke way too fast sometimes and I had no idea what he was saying. He got frustrated with me every once in awhile but it was mostly fine, haha.
We were drawing pictures of pumpkins (zucca) and witches and ghosts (fantasmi) for Halloween which they know about and kind of celebrate, i don't think its quite the same though. But we got along great, Roberta gave me the picture she drew of the countryside it was cute. And they both were happy to share with us what english words they knew. Evidently they learn a little English, Spanish, and french in school. They were shocked when i said i was 20, b/c when you're 10 that's really old. Roberta said when she's 20 she wants to study in another country too though, which I thought was cool, and on our way out she came to the door to wave to us.
So I guess I do ok with kids that don't speak English too, probably because I'm a 5 year old at heart anyway. I drew Halloween pictures too, and Roberta asked if I studied art at school...HA I told her no, but that was nice of her to say so. I love kids they're great. We're going to work there every Thurs evening for just an hour and a half or so, just playing with the kids, I'm excited about it. Yay!
Ciao Ciao, have a great day!