Important Lists

My list of ten things I really miss but don’t need,

1.      Cheesy Doritos

2.      Pancakes

3.      Peanut butter

4.      Any sort of processed sugar/artificial flavoring

5.      My cat

6.      Frisbee’s (They do have them but I haven’t played yet)

7.      Quarters (the American kind)

8.      Buffy the Vampire Slayer season two

9.      Netflix

10.  Dungeons and Dragons

I created this list so I could get all the things I miss out in the open and start to move on.  Sadly, a third of this list is food which is ironic considering they have the best food here; I think I’ll get over those the fastest. However things like my cat might take a bit longer.

My list of ten things I like that I have discovered here

1.      Dolce Sardo Cheese

2.      Italian Pizza

3.      Gelato

4.       The lack of processed sugar/artificial flavoring in almost everything

5.       Peach juice

6.      Una Principessa Insopportabile (an Italian children’s book)

7.      Euro’s

8.      Espresso!!!!!!/Café Latte!!!!

9.      Watching soccer and Italian Game shows

10.  The Italian language

This is an awesome list, there are other things I have discovered that I like of course but these are some of the coolest. Also all the people I have met and places I have been but that wouldn’t fit on my list. This week I made pancakes for a friend of mines birthday and I attended my first basketball match with my team! We lost but it was pretty close.  Also I have started to enjoy math a little bit because it’s one of the few subjects I understand. Next, my class mates are helping me learn Italian first of all by making me pay them one euro if I speak English, no not really but they do yell at me, and by not speaking English themselves unless they are helping me figure out the meaning of something.  My friend Michela is reading Una Principessa Insopportabile with me, too. Finally, I made my first espresso this week, it was delicious.  

Keys and Strikes

This past week I have benifitted from the strikes in Cagliari by not having to go to school! On monday I arrived at school to find all of the students outside. This was really odd so I found one of my classmates and asked him what was going on. He told me the man who has the keys to the school, Bruno, wasn't at school yet because of a workers strike. School was being delayed untill second hour to see if Bruno would show up or not so my classmates and I went to hang in a coffee shop. When second hour rolled around we walked outside to the cheering of an entire school of students. From this it was pretty obvious that school had been cancelled that day because one man decided not to show up to work. Thank you Bruno and thank you workers strikes.
Later That week on Friday there was no school agian because of a student strike. I got one glimpse of the students strike and it was one of the more impresive things I've seen. All I saw was a sea of students screaming and running down the equivalent of mainstreet with giant signs. It was quite amazing! I am truly greatful to the strikes of Italy!