Il Primo Giorno di Scuola, il Vigile del Fuoco, Cles e Gelato

This morning I woke up and had my first italian breakfast: tea, cookies and some cake. The morning was chilly and the ride to school was very beautiful. When we got to the school everyone was in the lobby and it was kind of overwhelming! I was surprised at the amount of scarves I saw, but it made me feel right at home. When school started we went to the lecture hall where all of there classes were for the week because there were about 40 of us. In Italy the teachers are the ones that changes classrooms; the students stay in the same room all day. Today they had math (programing), biology, English, and history. Only two of the american students understand the language of programing so that class was interesting. Biology was fun because she explained the skeleton to us in Italian and then we went up to the lab to see skulls of other animals. In their English class we read to them from their textbook so that they could hear how we speak and we taught them how to say the names of cities and states like: Ohio, Miami and Milwaukee. We also used google maps to show them our school and other locations in our town. Half way through their classes we had a break period where they sell pizza and sandwiches. The we had history class where the teacher was very strict and got mad at some of the girls for laughing and talking during class.

We ate lunch in the cafeteria of an all boys school. We ate spaghetti, zucchini, grapes, bread and pork. It was a lot of food, but we had an hour to eat so everything was fine. Next we took a long long walk to the firehouse of Cles. Here the firemen are volunteers. The station is more modern than I think ours is, but they also have a pole and we were allowed to sit in the trucks and go up on the ladder. They said that the weather here has never been this hot and if they knew that it was going to be so hot they would have taken us on a raft. 

Then we walked back to Cles and hung out in the center of the town. We eventually went to get gelato. This time I chose to get the flavor Ace. I don't know the translation of this flavor into Italian, but I think that it is carrots and oranges mixed together. It reminded me of an orange lollypop that you get at the doctors office. We had a lot of fun teaching each other hand games from our countries. We taught them slap, slide and crock-a-dilly-oh-my (sorry I don't know how to write it). It is super fun  and whenever they see us they want us to do it with them. 

When we got back to the house I showed Monica some pictures of my family, town, school and things that we do in America. We laughed a lot and exchanged a ton of cultural information. For dinner we ate cauliflower, cabbage, eggs and something similar to a pancake- it is rice, egg, flour and some other stuff that I forgot all mix together and fried. They were amazing! After dinner we went to one of the other Italian student's town- Dambell. Most of the students were there and we played foosball. It was really fun, but I am super tired. I wish that I could explain all of this in more detail, but it is midnight here and I am tired. Please feel free to ask me to explain something that you want to know more about :)

I think that yesterday I forgot to mention that I almost got run over by a little boy on a bike that was not going to move out of the way for anyone. I guess I was the only one who did not see him coming. Just thought I would leave you all with something to laugh about.