Update: new pictures courtesy of Alice! thanks!
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wow.WoW. WOW WEE.
Best night of my life.
One thing that I would like to say is "Grazie Giovanna, per sei amica bene con Alessandra!" (hopefully that is a good italian sentence) Alice and I had a blast!
First, we went up and had drinks with Michi (Alice's host brother and good drinks mind you) and his friends Enrico and Tommas (Accent over a).
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| aw, best friends forever! |
We watched and listened to music and finally around 9:30-10:00 pm we saw the grande macchina, which was eye-striking. I can't believe all those men carry it over their shoulders...they must be crazy! Actually, friends we met (written about later in this post) said it reminded them of Christmas and Santa Claus (and it kind of did...).
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| Grande Macchina! |
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| the men that carried it |
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| me, Matteo, Alice (where am I looking at?) |
Then, Enrico's brother Matteo comes in sits in and chats. Virginia's friend (Alice host sister) had her mouth open when she saw him...he looked like a model, by the way. Then around 11:00 we headed for the fireworks.
"We look so cool right now" Alice whispered to me.
I totally agreed. I almost wanted to shout out "That's right be jealous!" but refrained from that embarassment.
We walked around and finally got to the "hill" (well its actually a hill...huge hill) which faced a GINORMOUS castle. Alice and I also met up with nuoi amici americani.
Chance and Taylor K. tried to figure out ways to get Italian girls to fall for them, but Lauren (who has made many many Italian friends) said that most Italian girls/women don't like American guys. Taylor and Chance still tried to come up with tatics like playing innocent and tiger crawling...
The fireworks finally came and went and Alice and I finally met up with Michi and everyone who were talking to some friends. Alice already knew them, but I finally was able to meet her newly acquainted italian friends...(it was SO COOL...unbelievable!). Right now, I know 2 Cristinas, A Francesco, a Georgia and many more names that whipped by me in a blur.
They spoke to us in English (and it was even more awesome because accents rock!) and they were really good. Which got me thinking...
I guess the difference is between European and US schools is that in US you don't really keep a language for more than 4 years...maybe more, and the usual case for learning another language for a long time is either A) you are going to an international school where you become bilingual. B)or you go to a bordering school or private school that teachers a language from elementary to middle school. It is hard to find that in public school settings.
On the Other hand, in Italy, you can be with on language (most occasion is English) for several years even in a public school setting, or in any setting really. So most kids who act like they don't know English tend to know since they were like 10 or so!
Anyway, Michi's friends were super friendly and molti simpaciti and I wish I was able to talk to them longer, and speak to them in Italian! But we headed back to Alice's house (so the boys can chill out and eat) and 15 mins. later we parted ways.
This terzo notte di Santa Rosa e (with accent) molto bene and epic! I am keeping that night in my memory forever! Especially the added Italian mix
Ciao bello,
Maya
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