Ultimo!

Exams Exams are this week, ewww... but I'm half way done already and so far so good, today we also presented our papers, which I mean my vocab wasn't the best maybe, but mine was the most entertaining I'd say. I actually had a lot of fun making a PowerPoint which is silly I guess. It was on Italian TV and I showed some clips. Its funny being here I really am sooo much better at Italian. The presentation I did today wasn't amazing but I could never have done that last semester in Richmond for example. One of the shows I looked at is Striscia la Notizia which is a show where they take pieces of other shows and news and puts them together and make it funny. Its good I've been told but they talk too fast and I don't really understand what they say. Its on every night at 8:30 and very popular. That's pretty prime time I feel, even kids are up still. The thing that makes it awful is that there are two girls that don't wear many clothes and dance around in the beginning and in the middle on the stage, that happens to also be the desk for the two old guys that host the show......seriously.... if you want here is the clip I showed class, its not anything special just one random day, actually I think earlier this month. Lots and Lots of young women aspire to be Veline evidently- kind of sad-Warning- its pretty inappropriate http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-VkakYBaw0&feature=related

I've been in a good mood lately

I feel like even though weird things have happen, I'm doing well. I slept a lot this weekend and did work so school isn't stressing me out too much, b/c I feel like I just have to do the work and it will be fine, compared to Richmond this isn't so bad. And it helps that my grades don't really transfer. I don't know how not to try at school though. So if I just be me, I'll be fine. Oh and I found oreos at the store on the corner and I finished lots of Study Abroad paper work for New Zealand. Did you know NZ is 12 hrs ahead of Siena even. So if its 5 pm on Tues. the East Coast of the US and its 11pm Tues. in Siena, it will be 11am in NZ on Wed. My new trick-time travel! -I will be going to the future I'm starting to recognize people, just on the street. How cool is that. And there's this cute little dog that belongs to the owner of a little bar near where I live and his name is Ultimo. When I walk by I say ciao ultimo! and pet his head, and he wags his tail and comes to me now. So two months, I fit in I guess now.

Fall Break
I finally made plans for Fall Break! I am officially going Ireland with some other students from my program! I have been doing a lot of last minute plans, but I think its good now. I will fly to Dublin, sat. Then wed. fly to Milan and stay with my friend Leigh, maybe go to Switzerland for a day, then on Fri. morning ish I am taking the train to Venice to see Linda and then back to Siena by train on Sun. evening. Should be fun. I've always wanted to go to Ireland too so we'll see I guess. I'm pretty excited- Have a nice day everyone I think I'm going to get train tickets and go home and see what the roof situation is, maybe take a nap if my bed isn't wet and then Study more!