09-Jan-2006

Today our mission was to meet at 8am so that one of the program directors could show us how to take the bus and get to school. The students who live in the downtown are the furthest away from the campus and thus have the longest bus ride. We made it there a little after 8am and waited for Daniele, our favorite Italian boy thus far. Italians are definitely on a much more relaxed schedule, he made it by 8:30 and we headed to school.


close to home... Via Garibaldi

From 9:30am til 12:30pm we had to sit through orientation, which we thought would never end. Most of the information was valuable; it just seemed very long-winded. Then we met our teachers and broke for lunch. During this time, Casey and I decided to run to the mall to get some things done. We managed to get an important stamp we needed and get locked in the ATM room.. It was kind of freaky, but we made it out alive. Then we made it back to meet our Elementary Italian teachers. Our teacher is female and sort of acts like a headmistress, but not like the one from the movie Matilda. She is almost that scary but not quite. Who knows, its only been day number uno of school, there is much left to be decided.