Italian school

I haven't written on this thing on awhile and I'm terribly sorry, but you must understand that I've been a bit busy.

I started school roughly two weeks ago. Let me just say that it is nothing that I expected, its better. The first day my host dad was nice enough to drive Lisa and I in instead of our usual routine of waiting for that lovely tram. As we approached the front gate I quickly realized that this year is going to be very different.All the kids wait outside until the bell. It was interesting to me that 80% of this city smokes even 14 year olds!! My school here is quite big, about 900 kids. We then went inside and met up with the headmaster who put the three happy little exchange students into their classes. There is me ,a girl from California, and a really sweet girl from Mexico. He was kind enough to escort me into my class,bring me to the front of the room sort of like a show and tell project, and introduce me to my fellow classmates and teacher in what I thought was very very fast Italian.

I'm taking all sorts of "interesting" classes here, Italian literature,philosophy,English language,English literature,latin grammar,architectural drawing,chemistry,gym,physics. I must admit that this is not my favorite lineup of classes to have to sit through and entertain myself for 5 hours but its all worth it because.......I FINALLY GET TO TAKE A PHOTOGRAPHY CLASS IN HIGH SCHOOL!!! I can't emphasize how much this excites me and I wouldn't trade this class for all of the duplos in the world. It starts on tuesday so I'll have to let you know how it goes.

When the class was over my desk was sort of ambushed/surrounded if you will by questions/and body heat from my fellow happy students. They were kind enough to speak to me in english as the Italians here speak very very fast. Some of the things that they were interested to know were "What are you doing here", "What do you think of Italy so far", "If you're from America why aren't you fat?" haha that sort of thing.

In Italy, the teachers move instead of the students so you get very tired of sitting in the same chair for about 5 hours.. You do get one 10 minute break though!

Most of my classmates are very nice. Last saturday we all went to see Hancock at the movies and lunch at Mcdonalds. Would you like to see some pictures? I'll write more later..

Valid proof that ITALIANS EAT MCDONALDS!!!!

Some of my Italian friends

My Lovely friend Sheila