Dinner and a Movie - Oct 7 & 12

Oct 7

     On Friday I had a very lazy day. I didn’t get out of bed until noon. The rest of the Villa had gone to Cinque Terre and I was one of very few people around. It was very nice to have a whole day to be lazy and catch up on rest. But once the evening rolled around I finally got up and headed into the city to meet Al and her family for dinner. I should say I tried to get into the city. The original plan was for me to meet up with them at 6 for drinks before dinner, but when I got to the bus stop at 5:20 I didn’t realize there was a bus strike. So I waited 45 minutes until an Italian man started complaining to me about “scioperi”  (strikes). Unfortunately by that time it was 6:05 so the train had just left and would not come again until 7:00. So eventually I headed into Florence at 7:15. I quickly power walked to their hotel and from there we walked to dinner.

            Dinner was great! It was definitely nice to see some familiar faces from back home. I should also point out that I was so lazy earlier in the day that I had neglected to eat food since none was immediately available in the Villa. There fore I was very hungry. Al and I split this enormous steak that was bigger than my face and like 4 inches thick. 

     We also split a big mushroom, but I couldn’t eat it because it smelled like a cat, which repulsed me. Then we all got deserts (I went with tiramisu.) and followed them up with limoncello (yuck!!!!).  It was a really nice dinner and I had a great time with the FitzGeralds. (Thank you so much!!! If you’re reading this!!)

            After dinner I walked Al back to her pensione and we watched Bridesmaids. Then I headed home.

Oct 12

Blah blah blah. It’s been a while since my last major blog entry, but not much has happened other than school and daily life. I’ve settled into my classes and the course loads picked up a bit last week, as we get closer to midterms next week. The weather has very suddenly dropped out of summer and into mid-fall. It is definitely cooler and crisper.

Something interesting did happen tonight when I tried to go see a Dangerous Method at the movie theatre in Sesto with Ellen and Kelsey. We mistakenly believed that the movie would be in English with Italian subtitles, so when the movie started rolling in Italian with no subtitles we were a bit lost.  However we figured our Italian was good enough to push through it so we decided to stay and attempt to understand what was happening. I was largely successful in understanding what was happening, however since the movie was about psychologists (Freud and Jung) it did get rather tricky when they started discussing dreams and psychological mumbo jumbo.  On the whole I rather enjoyed the experience. It was a bit more work than a typical movie, but after some discussion we were able to fit all the pieces together.