So..... This family I am staying with now... Yeah, last year my friend Anna stayed with them and she ended up with food poisoning.... Jenn and I are scared to death to eat anything..... Last night we steered clear of the chicken and only ate a few potatoes and some bread... .Tonight thank goodness we are going to Perugia with Brian's family to have a kebab and walk around.... Tomorrow to Spello for pizza with a kid from Lucca camp and then after that we will be on our own again.... Wish us luck!!!
Our last camp here is going well... My class is very good. Very well behaved and they are pretty good at English. I am ready to come home though, I am burnt out on trying to understand these little kids... Its super fun to hang out with Brian and Jenn though. They are probably my favorite two tutors to work with. I feel like we just understand each other and we all three are really good at making sure the workload is even. :)
So proud of Hannah Banana!!!! She is a nurse now!!! WOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO!!!! I knew she could do it. I had a dream last night that she passed her exam and whatever..... Maybe Mum was in my head telling me the good news. :) I am so proud of her...
Thats about it for now. If you have any good ideas about the whole food thing, let me know! :) Haha. Will post pictures soon, I hope!
Ciao!
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Friday, July 16, 2010
Pontefalcino!
the assisi camp was very fun. we had a great group of kids. they were well behaved for the most part... there were a few kids who were absolutely hysterical.....
i feel like my blogs are getting less often and less detailed as the summer goes on, but i think that is probably because fewer things are new now.... so i feel like i have less to talk about....
last night we went to ted's host family's house for dinner... it was really good and very interesting to sit and visit with them. Its really entertaining to try to have a conversation with someone when very little common language is used. we seemed to get the messages across and we shared many laughs. we were asking how to say things in italian and then we laughed because we would say something like knife in italian.... col....tel....lo.... to them that probably sounds similar to niiiiiiiffffffff..... yeah? hahaahah. its an interesting and very funny funny thing to think about. :)
at camp we made t shirts and then the next day we did a vine walk.... our theme was jungle so we did a model runway (cat walk) but adapted to our theme.... the kids loved it. it was reallly funny.... here is a picture of all the kids in their t shirts. :)
i feel like my blogs are getting less often and less detailed as the summer goes on, but i think that is probably because fewer things are new now.... so i feel like i have less to talk about....
last night we went to ted's host family's house for dinner... it was really good and very interesting to sit and visit with them. Its really entertaining to try to have a conversation with someone when very little common language is used. we seemed to get the messages across and we shared many laughs. we were asking how to say things in italian and then we laughed because we would say something like knife in italian.... col....tel....lo.... to them that probably sounds similar to niiiiiiiffffffff..... yeah? hahaahah. its an interesting and very funny funny thing to think about. :)
at camp we made t shirts and then the next day we did a vine walk.... our theme was jungle so we did a model runway (cat walk) but adapted to our theme.... the kids loved it. it was reallly funny.... here is a picture of all the kids in their t shirts. :)
have many more pictures, too late to upload tonight.... hope to have internet access in pontefelcino, but if not i will be home in 2 weeks and will upload pictures then! :)
Ciao! Io vado a letto!!!
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Saturday!!!
So super excited for saturday!!!! I will be reunited with Jenn and Brian.... My final camp here in Italy will be amazing....... I am very excited to work with them. My last camp is in Pontefelcino.... Only about 30 minutes from the rest of the tutors in Santa Maria... Yay! :)
The Assisi camp has been super fun. The kids are all really well behaved and my host family is so nice! :)
It has been super hot here.... I have been super tired as well. Ha. Can't wait to jump in the good 'ol Chewaucan River! :) Tomorrow after camp I am going to do some souvenier shopping, then finish that up in Roma when I go to the airport. 19 days until I'm home!!!
The Assisi camp has been super fun. The kids are all really well behaved and my host family is so nice! :)
It has been super hot here.... I have been super tired as well. Ha. Can't wait to jump in the good 'ol Chewaucan River! :) Tomorrow after camp I am going to do some souvenier shopping, then finish that up in Roma when I go to the airport. 19 days until I'm home!!!
Monday, July 12, 2010
3 weeks until Oregon bound!
This blog is a combination of a variety of things because I kept thinking I would have internet access to post a blog.... I didnt have much.
So the first camp is over.... I am sitting here at Danielle and Anna's family's place because mine left for the beach... Probably is for the best because my host sister wouldn't even talk to me at school today. haha. This camp was crazy!! The kids were so naughty, and some got better while others got worse... Either way I am glad its over.
I am headed to Lucca for a week.... Actually, by the time this blog gets posted I might already be done with Lucca. I don't have internet access here at this place, not sure if I will be able to connect tomorrow anywhere. Hope so! :) Lucca is an overnight camp. I am super excited about it. We get to do all sorts of fun stuff like ride horses, hike and camp, swim, all that jazz. :) It should be a super fun time! We will only have 8-10 campers so it will be VERY easy.
Only a month until I am back in Oregon.... Crazy how fast, and slow, time is going... I wish I could be home for Mosquito Festival, but I will barely miss it. Oh well.... BBQ party when I come home! :)
So now I am on the train in Florence waiting for it to leave toward Foligno.... We will be in Assisi for this week and I am not sure where for my final camp session.... Lucca was awesome!!! I absolutely love Carla and Mauro... They were so awesome. The kids were great and it was fun to work with Kim and Ted. We will only have between 10-15 kids for this week in Assisi and I think about five of them will be kids from Lucca... It should be another fairly easy week... I am excited to meet my host family. I hope they have internet that I can use to at least email and post this blog... It would be really nice if I could skype home at least once and chat with everyone... Carla gave us each a bottle of olive oil and a bottle of red wine... And I bought another bottle of wine and 2 of oil... I will be sharing those with the family at home...
My favorite story from Lucca was from our nature walk the second night. We went bird watching and we started walking toward the next small town over. It was a very easy walk and it was all downhill. The kids weren't really looking for new birds so Mauro told them that they must find 4 new species if they wanted ice cream in San Gennaro. So they got right to work listening and looking for new birds. We made it to San Gennaro and walked down to the ice cream shop... It was closed! Hahahahahaha! The lady only opens the shop when she feels like it, so we turned around and walked back up the hill to Petrognano. One of the little tykes was not very pleased with the fact that we didn't get ice cream. He said, "We did all of this for nothing!?" I couldn't help but laugh because it was such an easy walk down to town and even the walk back to Petrognano was fine. It was super hot, but swimming was after nature walk anyway. After dinner Carla gave us ice cream bars so we got our ice cream after all.
Camp here in Assisi is going well... We had 15 kids today, not sure if we will have more tomorrow or not. I am teaching the 10-11 year olds. It is fine. My family here is very nice. The daughter, Caterina, is 12 years old. She is very quiet but very polite. She goes to English Camp. Her brother, Ludovico, is 14 and he is very nice as well. The parents, Alessandra and Paulo are very nice. The mom knows some English, enough for us to communicate. The first dinner I had here she taught me the names of many fruits.... I don't remember many now, but it was interesting. :)
I can't believe how tired I am... I think it is interesting how much I take for granted... Like talking to my fmaily and friends. I have talked with mom for a total of like 30 miuntes this month that I havebeen away and hardly at all withmost of my friends. This has been a great experience both for my career and for me as a person. I think I am ready to come home. I think that I would love to do this same kind of thing next summer, but maybe not in Italy. I didn't realize how much of a home-body I was until this past week. I am going to keep my eyes open for different opportunities throughout the US and maybe even Canada for summer camps that I could work for.
So the first camp is over.... I am sitting here at Danielle and Anna's family's place because mine left for the beach... Probably is for the best because my host sister wouldn't even talk to me at school today. haha. This camp was crazy!! The kids were so naughty, and some got better while others got worse... Either way I am glad its over.
I am headed to Lucca for a week.... Actually, by the time this blog gets posted I might already be done with Lucca. I don't have internet access here at this place, not sure if I will be able to connect tomorrow anywhere. Hope so! :) Lucca is an overnight camp. I am super excited about it. We get to do all sorts of fun stuff like ride horses, hike and camp, swim, all that jazz. :) It should be a super fun time! We will only have 8-10 campers so it will be VERY easy.
Only a month until I am back in Oregon.... Crazy how fast, and slow, time is going... I wish I could be home for Mosquito Festival, but I will barely miss it. Oh well.... BBQ party when I come home! :)
So now I am on the train in Florence waiting for it to leave toward Foligno.... We will be in Assisi for this week and I am not sure where for my final camp session.... Lucca was awesome!!! I absolutely love Carla and Mauro... They were so awesome. The kids were great and it was fun to work with Kim and Ted. We will only have between 10-15 kids for this week in Assisi and I think about five of them will be kids from Lucca... It should be another fairly easy week... I am excited to meet my host family. I hope they have internet that I can use to at least email and post this blog... It would be really nice if I could skype home at least once and chat with everyone... Carla gave us each a bottle of olive oil and a bottle of red wine... And I bought another bottle of wine and 2 of oil... I will be sharing those with the family at home...
My favorite story from Lucca was from our nature walk the second night. We went bird watching and we started walking toward the next small town over. It was a very easy walk and it was all downhill. The kids weren't really looking for new birds so Mauro told them that they must find 4 new species if they wanted ice cream in San Gennaro. So they got right to work listening and looking for new birds. We made it to San Gennaro and walked down to the ice cream shop... It was closed! Hahahahahaha! The lady only opens the shop when she feels like it, so we turned around and walked back up the hill to Petrognano. One of the little tykes was not very pleased with the fact that we didn't get ice cream. He said, "We did all of this for nothing!?" I couldn't help but laugh because it was such an easy walk down to town and even the walk back to Petrognano was fine. It was super hot, but swimming was after nature walk anyway. After dinner Carla gave us ice cream bars so we got our ice cream after all.
Camp here in Assisi is going well... We had 15 kids today, not sure if we will have more tomorrow or not. I am teaching the 10-11 year olds. It is fine. My family here is very nice. The daughter, Caterina, is 12 years old. She is very quiet but very polite. She goes to English Camp. Her brother, Ludovico, is 14 and he is very nice as well. The parents, Alessandra and Paulo are very nice. The mom knows some English, enough for us to communicate. The first dinner I had here she taught me the names of many fruits.... I don't remember many now, but it was interesting. :)
I can't believe how tired I am... I think it is interesting how much I take for granted... Like talking to my fmaily and friends. I have talked with mom for a total of like 30 miuntes this month that I havebeen away and hardly at all withmost of my friends. This has been a great experience both for my career and for me as a person. I think I am ready to come home. I think that I would love to do this same kind of thing next summer, but maybe not in Italy. I didn't realize how much of a home-body I was until this past week. I am going to keep my eyes open for different opportunities throughout the US and maybe even Canada for summer camps that I could work for.
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