That was one CRAZY Italian weekend......Part 3

Saturday, January 10th:

Saturday was no different in that we didn't wake up until about 5 minutes before 11 AM....only difference today was, we had our first Italian class at 11 o'clock on the dot downstairs in the studio. Yeah. So, needless to say, I JUMPED out of bed, threw on some clothes, brushed my teeth, and was the last one in my seat as Barbara (BAR-bah-rah) began class. It lasted from 11 AM until 1 PM and it was quite interesting. I actually felt like I was able to retain a good bit (and hanging out with the Italians 2 nights in a row didn't hurt either, ha!!). We had lunch and then, I was about to fall over from sleep deprivation, so I took about a 2 hour nap and got up to shower and get ready before we had Italian again at 6 PM with Barbara. This time we had to do a lot more conversations out loud in front of the whole class so that was interesting as well.

Afterwards, about 6 of us grabbed a snack and we were out the door because we had made plans with Luca and his friends to see an Italian play!!! Oh be still my heart!!!! One of his very good friends, Sarah (Sa-RAH) whom we had met the night before was in the play. It was the cutest theatre -very post modern- and although the show was in all Italian, I still found that I could enjoy it and interpret some of it (of course with the help of Jonathan's interpretations as well). 

One of the Italian women that we had met the night before, Ljuba (Loo-ba), who was SO sweet, actually brought me a Lindt (which just happens to be my FAVORITE chocolate ever) dark chocolate bar to the play!!! The night before, another classmate, Heather, and I had just mentioned our love for chocolate, and so she brought us each a chocolate bar. I'm telling you....the Italians are the friendliest, most hospitable people around. They are amazing and I LOVE them!!! :) :)

After the play, we headed to another local pub that unless with Luca we would have never found. I had a "hot dog" but not like an American hot dog. The beef was cut up into strips and on a sandwich bun. It was actually very good. I also had a some TRUE tiramasui and a lutella (loo-tell-ah). Both were simply AMAZING and our Italian friends were laughing because of my love of chocolate (they ended up giving me another Lindt candy bar before the night was up....I of course saved it for later). We had a fabulous time and made a point to get home around 1 AM since we've been having such a hard time getting up. Otherwise, we would have continued on with them, because after dinner, they went on to a concert!!! I don't know if I can keep up with the Italians!!! :) :)