So that my father doesn't get TOO bored.

Math and physics are my favorite classes because they're the same in every language so I can answer questions correctly and follow along, especially when the problems are written. It's funny though because we have the same professor for those two classes, and those are the only ones (besides English) that I pay 100% attention in (and am smart in), so all the other teachers must hate me. Oh well. I was talking with the History and Philosophy professor who notoriously haaaaaates exchange students, and she was all excited that I could understand her lectures when she talks on the slow side. Hurray! I'm not just a "piece of furniture," as she calls us!

Friday night I went to a Lion's Club meeting with Mietta's family because Salvatore is the president. (sorry for the betrayal, Rotary. Still haven't been to one of those meetings! I did however go to a RotarACT meeting... which was basically just a bunch of college students in a cafe chatting for a couple hours. I don't really know why my counselor told me to go, but it was the first time I had heard from him since he met me at the airport. AND he showed up to give me my allowance!) It featured a Sardinian author/photographer and his hot-off-the-press book "The Sardinian Experience." I read it after. Very educational. Anyways. I went to dinner afterwards with the family, the author and a ton of other people, which probably could have been an extremely nice evening, but it was nearing midnight on a school night and I am exhausted by 8pm. By the third course it got to the point that I was so past the state of exhaustion (as was Mietta and another really cool girl named Giosipina-- Riki was already asleep under the table next to us) that everything was absolutely hilarious.

Riki is entirely in love with me. Oops?

Oh, I rode the bus for the first time Saturday morning. Woohoo. I was nervous, ahah. Honestly, it's not that exciting, and just means I need to wake up a half an hour earlier. Bummer.

What is up with every European and the shiny gold or silver tennis shoes? Man, my philosophy teacher wants so bad to be stylin'.

I went out Saturday night with a bunch of girls, it was awesome. We went to a pizzeria and walked all around Via Roma. It was an extremely fun night. I liked them lots. :]

And Sunday afternoon I went to Miriam's house and we had a delicious lunch with her mother. And in the evening I went to the movies with Giovanna and her friends. The movie (Burn After Reading starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt) was horrible, but I think it made me closer with Giovanna so that's good...! For some A-list names it was such bad quality. You could see the boom mic bobbing around in the top of some shots. I was frustrated with that. Ahaha.

I AM SO EXCITED! Hilary, Stephanie and I are going to make a Thanksgiving feast for our host families. It's going to be amazing. I don't know if it will be delicious seeing as all the ingredients are different here, but regardless I can't wait for November. I hope our host families don't hate it. Ahaha. I hope we can find a turkey! We might be eating a Thanksgiving chicken this year. Oh well. Stoked.

Why doesn't everyone in the world have a balcony like mine??