hello everyone! sorry i haven't wrote on here for a while but school is picking up so I don't have as much time...anyways, last sunday was a cancer awareness walk that about 15,000 people participated in, called "Corri la Vita" (walk for life). it was sooo much fun! there were so many people in purple shirts and work out clothes! it was so exciting because no one here ever wears work out clothes and if you know me just the slightest bit..you know that i wear workout clothes everyday and coming here was a struggle of having to dress up in real clothes every day. but this was the one time that people were actually wearing workout clothes! i finally fit in! so we went to the starting point which is the plaza signoria (statue garden and fake david are there) and there were soo many people! it was so awesome to see so many florentines here supporting cancer and volunteering their time and effort. During the walk many museums and gardens that usually you have to pay to get it..so we went to so many churches (be proud grandma and mom!), the pitti palace, and the famous gardens (honestly i have no clue what they are called) but they were gorgeous...the walk was fun to be with my friends and trying to meet new people..my friend liz and i got a belium waffle with nutella on top during the walk just for kicks..and it was so good! there was so much sugar and it was so chocolate-y it was definitely the breakfast of champions! so the walk finished around 2 and then there was music in the plaza so we just hung out there for a while..pretty good day!
this week was not too exciting except for learning another past tense of the italian language...so now i am up to three tenses!
yesterday i went to the library since i got a card a few weeks ago and i checked out some movies that are in italian with english subtitles so i am excited to watch them..i got mrs. doubtfire, bridget jones diary, million dollar baby and dirty dancing..i am hoping that this will help me with the language because i am finding out that writing the language is coming easy for me, its just speaking which is so hard for me!
but on that note the other day i decided that i wanted to do a language tandem exchange which is (basically what julia roberts does in eat pray love) and i teach the person english while they teach me italian..so i got the english speaking newspaper, The Florentine, and looked in the classified section and found a 30 year old who is looking to work on his english. so i emailed him and we met today (i was sooo nervous by the way!) but he was super nice and we got a sandwich and cafe and he helped me so much with italian and he is already really good at english but he just wants to learn sayings that we say in america so he can get the "lingo" down..so i am really glad that i went through with it and he was so good at helping me learn words and getting tenses down..we were just walking down the street and he would point something out and i would try and figure out the word..i think it will really help so i am excited about it!
o alsooo i am working on getting an internship for a website called "Flo n the Go"! its a start up website that i would write articles for from an american student perspective about the lifestyle in florence..i am really excited about it and hope that it all works out! i would be writing a couple articles a month and would be published on the website right away..so i will definitely keep you all updated about that!
well i am off to oktoberfest for the weekend! its going to be crazy and i am a little frightened..we leave at midnight tonight, take a bus and get there at 9 am, stay till 11pm and drive back for another 9 hours...get back sunday around 8am..it will be the longest day of my life! but how can i be in europe and not go to oktoberfest while it is going on! maybe i will start to like beer there..who knows? i will let ya know!
hope everyone is doing well..if you ever want to email me, my email is michelle.giraudo@yahoo.com..i love emails! and i love real letters too! thats like christmas for me! ok bye everyone! i will update you all soon..don't worry!
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