Barack the vote!!

So on the first- Day of the Dead- we drove to the towns that Anna and Salvatore's families are from (Bultei and Flussio) to visit their family cemeteries. I actually was expecting it to be super lame, but it ended up being pretty cool! All of the tombs are above ground, and basically look like countertops (let the ooba tooba jokes ensue...). The richer families (like Anna's) have little houses with all their tombs in them. Then everyone goes on this day to put flowers and candles on the tombs. It was pretty neat.

So I am sitting in class. It's silent. Everyone is taking a Greek test. The professor actually gave me a test, too. HA. Yeah, right.

All four of the girls down the row in front of me are wearing a purple sweater. It's funny. They say Italians are so stylish, and so it seems... at first. Then you realize that they all have the same exact style... and suddenly it becomes far less in style, indeed.

So elections were yesterday (well, we found out the results yesterday), and let me just say... Europe is STOKED. Had this election been world-wide, I guarantee Obama would have won with like, 93% of the popular vote. While I'm on the subject... I can now assure you that explaining the electoral college system to foreigners in a language you barely know is NOT the easiest thing. Anyway. It's really funny to see how excited everyone is about another country's president. Shows how much the U.S. has an effect on the rest of the world though, huh? I mean, anyone know the name of Italy's president?

It's my birthday today.
1. I'm 18! (not 19, Truckee Sunrise! hehe, I'm young.)
2. Yes, I know... two days AFTER one of the most ground-breaking presidential elections in history...
3. I officially, for the first and only time, probably ever, was older than Spike for nine hours!!... which ended two minutes ago, because it's now 9:02 am here, therefore midnight in America, so he's 18, too. Oh well. It was cool while it lasted.
4. Happy half birthdays to Josh, Ashley and Tyler.
5. I get to open my package from home now!!!
6. I am going to a pizzaria and then to a disco with the girls in my class Saturday to celebrate. :]
7. Italians are really big on the whole text-you-right-at-midnight-or-first-thing-in-the-morning thing. Hahaha. Ahh... I like, did not go to sleep.
8. I have to go to a Rotary meeting tonight. Sweet. But it's just my club, so there won't be any of the kids that are usually at the Alghero/Sassari meetings.
9. Yesssss I just got out of making up my physics test by saying it's my birthday. Bitchin'.
10. I don't like lists with less than 10 things on them... so... I bought a bright orange pair of pants. And you're jealous.

Tim just got in trouble for drinking water in class. Apparently you're not allowed to do that in Italy... whaaaaaat...

Oh. So these are the escalator things at the supermarket that I said I'd take a picture of. They're flat so you can put your cart on, but then somehow the wheels are designed to lock with the grids of the escalator so they don't roll when you're going up and down to the parking garage. Genius.