Possible housing opportunity

I’m so exhausted, and cold. I have not been warm since I left the states. Things are getting much better socially. I’m understating the language a little more every day. My favorite thing to do is to pop in a bar or pizzeria just to say CIAO!!! Then the conversations starts from there and we laugh trying to teach me Italian. I seem to get a lot of free things that way. Today in the pizzeria they guy forgot to charge me, but I went back in and paid because he was awesome.

I don’t mean to be a Debbi downer, but today was awful. This last week was loaded with classes, I’m taking 6 and I am in class ALL DAY. Bam Bam Bam Bam, All I want to do when I get out is sleep. I don’t even see the daylight . Class from 8:30 to 6. With only one two hour break and a few short twenty minute breaks in between classes. So I was excited to know we have excursions, field trips on weekends where we could travel and explore new places. Well that was until we had our first one today, a walking tour of Macerata. Oh my gosh we were all exhausted because we hung out last night. Filiberto really likes to talk, nothing fazes him, he doesn’t get cold, tired or hungry! He is oblivious to our pain. It was windy and 30 degrees today and we would walk a little bit, then stop for a long time and he would ramble on about something.  We were supposed to take notes buy my fingers were so cold I couldn’t get them to move and my brain was so burnt out from the intensive learning I just couldn’t retain any more. Filiberto is awesome, don’t get me wrong, I think he just forgets how hard and exhausting it is to be a student. So we did this for ten hours today, and we were freezing every second of it. Ill post pictures soon.

I met a boy. I found him on couch surfing and Katie, Carly, Allyson and I went to meet him at a bar the other night. We couldn’t find the bar so I just kept asking people . dove jazz? Dove means where.. and I knew there was jazz playing at the bar. I don’t know how we found it, but we did. Hahaahah oh man the best part, we walk in, underdressed standing there. I don’t really know what he looks like, I’m looking for a guy with a chin piercing and reddish hair. So we stand there awkwardly and I see this guy, we make eye contact and he does this points at me, then to himself and winks and gives a thumbs up! I immediately ran over to him for a hug and we were cracking up. he introduced his friends to me and mine to him. We couldn’t stay long though cause we had to meet our group for dinner. But man I was glad I met him. He’s cute and fun : )

Toda we met our Italian tandem partner. There are some guys who seem super fun. My girl is super nice. She is 27 and speaks English pretty well and is fluent in German! So we can practice German English and Italian!

Yesterday we went to this classical music concert. T was put on by three woman, the one from France played the cello, the girl from Argentina played the accordion. And the girl from Italy played the guitar. It was really amazing, the music was brilliant, but Alyson and I had to pee so bad I t was hard to enjoy. The building it was in was beautiful! A few hundred years old covered in marble and paintings. Lavish tapestries and gigantic ceilings.

After that our group of 13 went to Katie graces and Schin Schins apartment for wine before going out. I left early to go home to see if Michale, the boy I had met had messaged me. And guess who I run into on a tiny cobblestone road on my way home? Yeah, he and his friends had just parked their car, perfect friggin timing, so I just turned around and went back to Maracuja with them. Oh my goodness it was so much fun. There were so many people in the piazza and I was meeting them left and right and they were all trying to teach me Italian and we were hugging and laughing. Then when we left Michale held out his arm and walked me home : ). He is so nice, I can defiantly see us all being friends : ).

So yeah, today was death, and we have to do it again tomorrow bright and early. I can hardly move, im wearing 6 layers of shirts, thick socks and leggings under my jeans. I pulled them up way over my bellybutton to try and retain as much heat as possible. I’m pretty sure I’m sleeping in my clothes tonight, way to cold and tired to take them off. Oh and we forgot to turn the heat off this morning so now we have no heat for the night (12 hour heat usage limit)

Oohhh yeah! If found a family! Not for Macerata, but during spring break, I will be able to stay with them for free and I will go to their high school and teach English. Well Ill be like a tutor. I’m super excited. I really wanted to travel somewhere warm for my break but I cant get a hold of my friend in Spain and I like to take opportunities as the come. I don’t really believe in a higher power, but I do like to believe in fate. Its best to role with the punches because when you try to look past them you’ll get hit in the face.