4 Gennaio, 2012 - 'Easier' Day!

Ciao a tutti!

We were up and ready this morning, so early that we actually had time to make breakfast for ourselves in the room.

We're in a bed and breakfast, but to be honest, it's more 'bed' than breakfast!!!  We had a small carton of milk and a few biscuits.  We used our resourcefulness and created a magnificent breakfast after finding a small bit of coffee as well.  Marvellous!

After stuffing our faces, we wandered down to school to start our language lesson. This morning it was about the future tense and futuro anteriore.  It was quite an easy lesson and I did all the homework needed during class.

Our conversation lesson began a little late, as the lecturer was stuck in traffic, so we took ourselves off to a bar.  I had a lovely espresso and bought some salatini.  Salatini are little snack things, like we have sausage rolls and party pies.  But these are SO much better!!!  There were tiny pizzas, mashed potato fingers, as well as a few other unidentifiable food pieces.  All good though!!

Our language lesson for communication/conversation was all about words that young Italians use, hopefully these may be useful with older students in the future.....but I think that some words may be better left out....!!

One good one is - 'non mi rompere le scatole'
(dont be a pain in the bum)

After class, we had lunch and tasted dome really yummy new things.  Salad with carpaccio of beef and then a pasta plate typical for the region, which was chick pea pasta with chick peas through the sauce.  Really different, but yummy!

After some coffee, we headed back for some group meetings and ended up getting back to our 'rooms' at about 5pm.  From here, we ended up hosting a few people in our place for showers as they didn't have hot water.  Very italian!

As thanks, they brought some wine, so we had a little study session over a few bottles of wine (Negroamaro is the wine from this region) and we also started planning where we can go over this weekend.  We have a few days free so we're thinking of going to Bari and Gallipoli (the Italian one!)

At 7.30pm we all went downt to the bar around the corner and had a few glasses of wine.  It was lovely as they have a time called 'aperitivo' which means when you get a glass of wine, you then get served nibbles and food.  Not bad at all!

We crashed into bed at about 10pm as some of the ladies want to use skype tomorrow from our room, because we have a strong connection from here.  They've arranged 6.30am calls to the eastern states....augh!

The challenge for the day is to tell me what the quote below means!

I'll be setting up challenges each day and bringing back some prizes for the quickest responses!!

Buona giornata!

Miss A