Wednesday, May 28th
Well, today was the day! Cora, Rebeca, and I started our internship at the museum. And by "started," I mean they didn't really have anything for us to do today so we sat at a table listening to music and began figuring out lesson plans for teaching English to the museum staff. I'd called that a successful day!
It was actually interesting to go down to the basics of the English language and try to figure out the best way to teach it. Let me tell you, English is hard! You think there is a structure to verb conjugation, then suddenly you get hit with a verb like "to be," and the rules go out the window. I am, he is, you are? What is that? I am just so grateful that I somehow learned English when I was young and have managed to speak it ever since. But in all honesty, it was really fun to work on the lesson plans.
(Another example of why English makes no sense: take the word "fish," then take the words "enough," "women," and "nation." Based on the sounds made by the letters in these words, "fish" could also be spelled "ghoti." Yup. That's the English language, ladies and gentleman.)
We also spent a little over an hour chatting with an Italian lady and cutting out paper circles for some activity the museum is putting on later this week. It was great to get better experience speaking the language in a relaxed setting.
After a few hours we were free to go. It is so awesome to go to work and then be d-o-n-e for the day! No homework or studying hanging over heads, just free time to explore this amazing city we get to live in! Three and a half more weeks!
That's really all there is for today. We finalized plans for a weekend in Cinque Terre this coming weekend, which everyone is ecstatic about. Exciting things ahead!
A domani,
Ciao!
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