so last sunday i went back to chianti for the 40th annual wine festival..i personally had never heard about chianti before coming out here but apparently its a pretty big deal..so me and a couple friends jumped on the bus right before it was leaving.. had to stand on the entire hour and a half bus ride and eventually made it there..the festival was pretty large with booths everywhere of people who own vineyards trying to sell their wine..we payed ten euros and got an actual wine glass and seven free testings..it was fun to go to the booths and pretend like i know about wine when i really have no clue what the people were talking about..i got good at swirling and looking at the wine, but that was about it for my knowledge of wine! haha we took a break and got some pizza in the town center that was huuuge for 2 euros! i love finding good deals..so we kept taste testing wines..i drank most white wine even i guess thats not a type of chianti but i think i have to work up to the red wine haha we took the bus back and of course i had to stand the whooole time but i was able to talk to a few people which was fun..i met one guy from belgium who studied at Santa Clara law school last year! such crazy and small world. i got back from the wine tasting around 7 and was so tired i ended up picking up a doner kabob (a german wrap with lamb i think) and it was soo good! and then i just went to sleep.
monday i had class at nine and its crazy just how quickly this class is going..i remember learning spanish and just the first two years were just about the colors, numbers, months and just easy stuff like that..nooot this class! the first day we learned about conjugations of verbs and vocabulary is on the side that we need to learn ourselves..we go so quickly in such a short amount of time usually by the time class gets out i am just exhausted! after class there were elections for the student council..its not that big of a job and just meets once every other week and i kind of thought about it and since i looove campaigns (its how i won thrift store prom!) i wanted to run and win this election. the student council is made up of one student per major. some of the majors are architecture, literature, art history and mine is history and classics. luckily, there are only about 5 people in this major. so i thought about it and i only need 3 votes to win and one of those would be mine! and since i already knew two people with the same major as me..i knew i had it the bag. so the voting for my major came up, i stood up in front of the whole school, stated my name, my year and what school i was from..they then voted, tallied up the votes and I WON! i got my three whole votes that i needed! haha impressive, right?
so the next day i had the first meeting for the student council..the position of the job is just basically to give feedback about our classes, field trips and everything going on in the school. it was a pretty good meeting but i just felt cool cuz i was at this meeting haha. nothing too exciting happened on tuesday..just class and then going home to study!
then on wednesday i had class from 1-4 because i have two different teachers for my italian class so the times of our classes vary from day to day. that night a few of my friends and i decided to go and watch a futbol game at an irish pub down the street from us..when we first got there the place was not crowded at all and then when the game started..so many people showed up! it was fun too cuz i ordered a beer for the first time at a real bar! not like i actually liked or drank most of it..it was still exciting to order it haha the game was fun and milano won so in the end everyone was happy..i realized when watching the game italians don't scream at the tv, they just throw up their hands and say "ehhhh" which is kind of funny..its all about their hands here..we then got some gellato and sat on the steps of the duomo..its so much fun to just sit and watch people here..but then some creepers always try to come up and talk to you and you have to some how get them away from you haha
so day i have just had class this morning and now i am going to try and meet up with my friend laura who is studying here this semester too! then i have class from 4:30 to 6:30 and then might go out to dinner with some friends..i have not eaten out at all at restaurants so that should be nice!
well thats it for now..ciao until next time!
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