Classes and Books
One more day of class and I have been to all my classes!! This week has been interesting between meeting people in classes and taking in all the different professors with their accents. Monday i had anthropology with professor picchi. He has a very thick Italian accent with his English and he seems to be one of the harder professors with the work load. i also have him for public relations. The three hour classes are going to end up being tough, but I am guessing that you just get used to it. Another way of looking at it is that it gives you that much time to do homework. My public relations class (which is my major) is frustrating because he simply has never experienced it in the states where it is actually practiced today. He works for an Italian newspaper and he said it is perfectly fine to make up stories in italy. That would not fly in America. i am glad to be learning it because especially from having an internship in D.C. this summer and taking journalism classes at Georgetown with top journalism students i have a firm basis for international differences. However, none of the other students have this foundation. Maybe the professor and i should take turns lecturing when it comes to American public relations...or at least help!
i am excited about learning Italian. I have almost all my classes with Zena including this one, which we have twice a week. He spoke in Italian the entire time while we learned basic phrases and went around the room using them to describe ourselves. i just want to be able to speak and understand the locals. It helps that much more with understanding the culture. I already told my roommates that next week we should impose an Italian only rule. It may not acutally happen, but I at least will stick to it. Zena started having culture shock the past few days. Several people did actually. She missed Italian and was so sick she finally went to the doctor to get a Z-pack. I was moody for a few days, but other than that I have been fine.
Zena, Ashley, Mackenzie and I (we all go to Baylor) are all going to Rome this weekend! We booked a hostel yesterday that a girl in my Italian class recommended to me. We are going to take the train there. For now we are taking a regional train which stops more and takes about 4 hours instead of the Eurostar which would take half the time simply to be cheap. We may also go on a bus tour that goes do the beaches on the Southern coast and through Pompeii. It is so much fun planning everything. There are several cheap airlines that will sell for one cent that fly out of Pisa which is not too far away. Some flights will be for as low as one cent when you book a week or so in advance. They may be sketch, but they get you there.
This morning my roommate Amber and I went to the open market near our apartment. It sells everything in season and strung up meats inside the little building. It will be fun cooking dishes with different random vegetables. Amber and I went over the Ponte Vecchio (the old bridge that crosses the Arno) to the other side of town to find a dance studio the other day. Her ankle has been creaking apparently and she has tendonitis! You walk so much here that you really have to remember to stretch your leg muscles before you go to bed, especially at first! Zena has already lost quite a bit of weight from walking around so much and i am guessing I will do the same soon. It is so hot right now!
i have been emailing friends and family back home. It is comforting to hear about their everyday lives. Right now I am actually on an instant messenger talking to my friend Jaron at Baylor. I feel like I am missing out on Thanksgiving with all my family (we always go to Branson...cool I know, just tradition.) But there will be other years and I am already learning a lot about myself just being away from everything. I think that right now I just want to learn some Italian. My sister Courtney finally emailed me about college life at Syracuse, but I have yet to talk to my parents since my first day! Oh well, I think it is more important to plan out supper right now. I wish I could say I was becoming more Italian.
Major discovery of the day-frozen gelato from the supermarket. Also in the supermarket, a couple fellow students thought I was Italian and followed me around to see what I bought. I blame it on the heels I was wearing, but it was funny and I did not even bother correcting them. I think I should be flattered, Italian women are beautiful.
i am excited about learning Italian. I have almost all my classes with Zena including this one, which we have twice a week. He spoke in Italian the entire time while we learned basic phrases and went around the room using them to describe ourselves. i just want to be able to speak and understand the locals. It helps that much more with understanding the culture. I already told my roommates that next week we should impose an Italian only rule. It may not acutally happen, but I at least will stick to it. Zena started having culture shock the past few days. Several people did actually. She missed Italian and was so sick she finally went to the doctor to get a Z-pack. I was moody for a few days, but other than that I have been fine.
Zena, Ashley, Mackenzie and I (we all go to Baylor) are all going to Rome this weekend! We booked a hostel yesterday that a girl in my Italian class recommended to me. We are going to take the train there. For now we are taking a regional train which stops more and takes about 4 hours instead of the Eurostar which would take half the time simply to be cheap. We may also go on a bus tour that goes do the beaches on the Southern coast and through Pompeii. It is so much fun planning everything. There are several cheap airlines that will sell for one cent that fly out of Pisa which is not too far away. Some flights will be for as low as one cent when you book a week or so in advance. They may be sketch, but they get you there.
This morning my roommate Amber and I went to the open market near our apartment. It sells everything in season and strung up meats inside the little building. It will be fun cooking dishes with different random vegetables. Amber and I went over the Ponte Vecchio (the old bridge that crosses the Arno) to the other side of town to find a dance studio the other day. Her ankle has been creaking apparently and she has tendonitis! You walk so much here that you really have to remember to stretch your leg muscles before you go to bed, especially at first! Zena has already lost quite a bit of weight from walking around so much and i am guessing I will do the same soon. It is so hot right now!
i have been emailing friends and family back home. It is comforting to hear about their everyday lives. Right now I am actually on an instant messenger talking to my friend Jaron at Baylor. I feel like I am missing out on Thanksgiving with all my family (we always go to Branson...cool I know, just tradition.) But there will be other years and I am already learning a lot about myself just being away from everything. I think that right now I just want to learn some Italian. My sister Courtney finally emailed me about college life at Syracuse, but I have yet to talk to my parents since my first day! Oh well, I think it is more important to plan out supper right now. I wish I could say I was becoming more Italian.
Major discovery of the day-frozen gelato from the supermarket. Also in the supermarket, a couple fellow students thought I was Italian and followed me around to see what I bought. I blame it on the heels I was wearing, but it was funny and I did not even bother correcting them. I think I should be flattered, Italian women are beautiful.
posted by Alyssa at 5:59 PM
2 Comments:
i bet noone would think i'm italian if i were over there buying stuff.. i wonder why
hey have fun in rome this weekend. it sounds like you are having a great time. i'm heading to West Point today...not quite as cool as rome but still excited about it. I told you Italian women were beautiful and you didn't believe me.
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