Adventures Await: Holiday Weekend

Thursday May 29th and Friday May 30th

Vacation time! Like I'm not already on vacation.

I'm leaving in an hour to go to Cinque Terre for the weekend with my study abroad group! Monday June 2nd is an Italian national holiday, so that means we get an amazing three-day weekend in a beautiful place!

Cinque Terre, everyone

yes, this is real life

As for yesterday, I had a busy day! At my internship in the morning, I helped with an art class for elementary school-aged kids. It was definitely an experience! I was pretty limited with how much I could help because I don't have a vocabulary that extends to art terms—and I'm not really fast enough with Italian to keep up with little kids anyway—but it was definitely good practice. 

After my internship I hung around Siena with some friends for a while. It was such a beautiful sunny day! I am excited every day to find myself in Italy.

Later on our whole group got together and bought flowers and a card to give to Cinzia, because she is leaving Siena on Saturday. So sad! Then we took her out to dinner at a restaurant. It was so much fun to all be together and tell Cinzia how much we appreciate her. And that pizza . . . wow. Cinzia said the pizza she ordered was in the top five of the best she's ever had. And she's Italian! It seriously was that good. Overall, a wonderful night with good friends. I am so blessed!!

Well, this morning at my internship we had another class of kids, this time doing a craft project. These kids were crazy rambunctious—so loud and hyper!—which made it a hundred times more difficult to understand them and communicate back. I was really struggling with one kid who spoke really quickly in a low voice. So this 8-year-old keeps asking me questions and I have to have him repeat everything he says a few times before I get it, and eventually he just gave up and went to his teacher. Apparently he asked her what my name was because he came back to me and said"Hey, Dark Hair." (I guess she asked if he meant the girl with the dark hair and he took that as being my name? no idea) Kids. So anyway, that was certainly an experience.

After my internship I came home and finished up my packing! I'm pretty excited about this weekend. Allora, I will not be blogging this weekend because a) I don't know if I will have Internet and b) I am not bringing my laptop. Sorry to disappoint any avid followers. I am sure I will have plenty to share when I get back on Monday!

A lunedì,

Ciao!