Blogs from Rovigo, Veneto, Italy, Europe - page 2

Just like every other day of this Italian summer has been (with the exception of the Venezia and Lido di Venezia spiaggia day...), most of the day was just relaxation at the house. My morning: --Sleep --Wake up, shower, eat breakfast --Have a nice conversation in Italian with Lucia (the cleaning-lady who, as you may remember, does not speak a lick of English, so it was challenging and quite confidence-booster!) --Read some captivating chapters of Clockwork Orange --Read a whole newspaper article in Italian about scientists finding the source of some deadly E. Coli outbreak in Germany... It was interesting, and it took me a half an hour to do it. --Watch two enthralling episodes of House on my laptop (Ok, it was a two-part episode that was extremely intense! I had to watch them both ... read more

Well once again, today was a day where we didn't do much at all. But I'm going to be very careful with this because whenever I say I didn't do much in a day, it ends up being one of my longer posts. So I'm going to give myself and you a bit of a break today, and this entry is going to be pseudo-short. Just like yesterday, we didn't do much all day until this evening. I spend most of my day studying some Italian, watching some "Improv-a-ganza" online, playing wii with Claudia, and reading the crazy book known as "Clockwork Orange". That was all fine and dandy. Well you all remember Davide, whom I met and talked about yesterday. We were supposed to meet up today at around 4 in the afternoon just to ... read more

So it's a Saturday. That means that there was not much going on during the day until night when everyone comes out. So throughout the whole day, I was struggling to find a title for today's entry. Here is an overview of my day (as usual), as well as the other ideas for a blog title that I could have used besides "American hot chocolate is LAME". "Pioggia". I didn't use this one because I've gotten complaints that I talk about rain so much in my posts when it rains in the USA too. Well, yeah, but it's different. You're in ITALY when it's raining. So the rain is a lot warmer and the atmosphere a lot more peaceful and natural and foreign, even with the lightning and thunder. So I woke up this morning to ... read more

Title: "The last day of school and water fights!" So today, as many of you loyal readers may know, was the last day of school here in Rovigo, Italy. Let me tell you that what happens after the school day ends is a lot more different that what happens in Eaton, Co. Well the day itself is somewhat normal I guess... in the first class, English, we just spent some time looking at some YouTube videos of the lyrics of some famous English songs (We Will Rock You, Circle of Life, etc.). Then we went to "la palestra" (the gym) for the P.E. class. This is a completely different experience than in the United States. We all got changed and then when we were in the gym, we had to wait for, oh, 15 minutes until ... read more

Rain, rain, rain.... That's all it did all day... is rain. But that's ok! I don't mind it, really. Mi amo la pioggia! (I love the rain!) Here's the funny thing about the rain... I think the Italian culture is afraid of getting wet. Just like cats. Hence the source of the Blog title. I think Italy has a higher "umbrella-per-capita" than they do Euros-per-capita. Seriously, when there's even so much as a sprinkler watering the lawn, the whole town whips out their "ombrelli" (umbrellas) and wields them like they're up against Justin Bieber (the Italians hate Justin Bieber more than they hate imitation pizza. At least I think they hate that.) But besides that, it was a normal day in Rovigo. At school today I worked on learning the Italian articles (our words for "a" ... read more