Sorry- will post soon!!

Preview for my real blog entry coming soon!!

I know seemed to gain the habit of posting a new entry every Wednesday- but i'm in the middle of midterms so I haven't had time to write it. But as a token of gratitude to anyone who check in, i'm going to tell you a story about my morning.....

So in my Italian class this morning my teacher Roberta thought it would be a good idea for us students to go out to bars (cafe's) around the area and ask them questions about coffee. We had to ask the barrista, and a customer.

The barrista was fine, he was actually really nice. He answered all of our questions (on our paper) nicely, and even gave us a free cappuccino!! But then we had to ask questions to one of the customers. The only ones there were groups of high schoolers. My partner and I approached one group of people, and ask them if we could ask them a few questions. They awkwardly said we could. We then proceeded to ask them the questions on our paper.

Before you knew it, we were surrounded by every single teenager in the bar. They were not only laughing HYSTERICALLY at our questions (they kind of had a right to, because we were told to ask the weirdest questions), they were taking pictures AND video taping. I literally wanted to run away and cry in a closet somewhere. But my partner was taking it like a champ. She just continued to ask questions, and they continued t to laugh harder. Finally the guy took our paper and started filling in his answers. It was at this point i started to ask the high schoolers questions in english. They had no idea what i was asking.... I felt a little better. After we were done (and after i posed for one of their shots), I said 'ciao, grazie,' and they said 'goodbyyyyyye' in what was an attempted american accent.

If there was anyway my italian teacher wanted us to look more american than she already had, she accomplished it. By the time we got back to class, everyone was leaving, and we didnt even have to turn in our paper. It was all for naught.

Oh well, at least we got a free cappuccino. :)

Ok, well I will update soon.

Ciao

Emilia

Oh P.S I have decided to give up all desserts/sweet things for lent. This is going to be the hardest 40 days ever.