It's always wonderful when you have something so simple that you love that can take you right back to home. It's even more wonderful when you find it in a foreign country! Well, Frosted Flakes does it for me. Just add a few strawberry and banana slices and bravo, perfetto! Mmm! It's funny that something so simple can be so good at the same time! Anyways, yesterday was week three of my adventures here in Italy and there has been even more to add to the list! I have survived the three hours a day Italian for the past two weeks! Now the class is still "intensive" for the next four-ish weeks, but it's down to three days a week for only two hours. Good news! I got 100% on my first exam! The other class that has started is Italian Cinema. The professor seems to be really interesting and hasn't failed to make us laugh. Always a necessity. One thing I was not aware of is beach volleyball seems to be pretty big here. Not quite as big as il calcio (soccer), but still something they are quite competitive in- that's for sure. There was a game organized through the school, "Americans vs The Italians" and we were so excited for it and also didn't know what to expect. My roommate and I show up and it's majority Italians, with two other Americans. Oh! And we were the only two girls. Ha! Intimidating! It turned out to be so much fun though, and we all just divided evenly to make the two teams. The Italians are so funny, so competitive, and we ended up making new friends out of it. Later that evening, we were rushed to make it home on time because we had a meeting scheduled with our landlord to pay rent. So me, Virginia, and Daniele (awesome sarcastic Italian in charge of our housing here in Torino) rushed home. One word of advice, no matter how much of a pro you feel at public transportation, there will always be those times when you are in a rush and need to make the metro before the doors close on you. Do NOT start sprinting down the stairs in flip-flops with absolutely zero tracking as the warning sound starts beeping to let you know the doors are closing soon, only to make a quick turn and jump onto the metro. You WILL fall down. I did at least. Daniele made it onto the metro, I made it sideways onto the floor, and Virginia was stopped just before the doors closed on her. Yikes! What a laugh though! Something else I found out this week is that not only are their pizzas, pasta, focaccia bread, or anything else Italian wonderful, but also their Chinese food! There is a cute little Chinese restaurant just across from our apartment building that we tried out, so yummy! So, I am also making more Italian friends, which is so good for me because it gives me a chance to work on speaking Italian more often. Last night, I was invited by some of the people who are around my age that I met at church last week to come to a group dinner at an amazing pizzeria. Everybody seems so awesome! Well here are some recent photos of my adventures this week.
Mmm, Lo mein and beef :)
On the Lingotto Mall rooftop!
Basilica di Superga
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