Okie dokie... where to begin.
Last week was pretty relaxed after spring break. I got my Italian midterm back and I got 100%! Nadia was thrilled to say the least. My relationship with her has grown immensely over the past week. One might say we're lovers.
In Italian film genre, we watched a wonderfully uplifting movie called General Della Rovere in which EVERYONE DIES. On wednesday we had onsight architecture class in Trastevere. It was hilarious. We were fifteen minutes late but Giovy was on the phone so it was "va bene" all around. We had to draw some fascist youth housing complex which was pretty neat. At the drawing, a girl finished hers and then asked Giovy if she could add anything to the drawing and Giovy said "start over." She only gets nicer as the weeks go by. She has also worn the same shirt three weeks in a row. OH! side note- We found out that Giovy may have a hermy daughter. One of my friends is her english tutor and "Agnese" calls herself a boy, and so does her dad, but Giovy always says "my daughter." It shall remain a mystery.
This week we also learned that Giovy doesn't speak english very well. She adds unnecessary S's on words, and leaves them off where they should be. She also speaks in the past tense about present things. ex: "I will need to done this again." We always say "no, giovy, you mean do, DO this again." I am going to offer to correct her english for an A in the class. We had our midterm for this class on thursday night where we showed off our drawings. Everyone was getting ripped apart (Dana had "something very, very wrong" going on with her drawing) but mine was "Perfect." I don't mean to brag, and I'm not going to insinuate that I'm having an affair with Giovy, but I'm pretty sure she loves me. I was the example on the perfect amount of detail. I was like, yeah. She tore apart this girl Elizabeth's drawing saying that Elizabeth free-handed it when she actually used a ruler. It was a funny class.
On friday we embarked for Frankfurt! All the flight attendants speak German to me and English to Manak and Dana. It was fun. We stayed at the Best Western (Best Veestern to the Germies) and on our first night roaming the city I saw my first crack-doing! It was pretty cool, and right after, a homeless woman giggled at us. I also ate rhubarb stuff so that was good.
The second day I woke up and Dana immediately punched me in the face. I bled all over my sheets. We then went to get haircuts! At a turkish hair place called the "golden schere." I sat down and said "spreichen sie English?" and he said no, only french, german and turkish. So, naturally, I got a nazi haircut because of the language barrier. Oy vey. I'm getting used to it now.
We also went to a sex shop! and I had apfelwein (not at the sex shop). It was a good trip. It was no Munich, but not really comparable either. Frankfurt is a nice place. Germans are funny.
On monday I had Italian again and, honestly, Nadia has the hots for me. She walked by me while I was in the lunchline, and didn't say anything, so I said "ciaoooo nadia!" and she just smiled coyly. And she always talks about me to the rest of the class, and always gets unnecessarily close to me when she talks to me in class. Today in the lunch line Dana said my name and I turned around while simultaneously screaming WHAT!?!? and Nadia was right there and she laughed and laughed at me. She said "oh kory is sooo nice person!" and I was like oh Nadia, you hottie you. And when she walked away she got REALLY close to my face and said "what!?!?" I love her.
My professora for Lit is in the states this week, so we had a sub named Dr. Janice Fine. First of all, read that name. Janice Fine. Then picture the most Jewish person you can think of. Huge schnoz, puffy puffy hair, a voice like fran drescher. But in the middle of the class she says "by the way, I'm Jewish." We're like uhh Ya think??! I love her though. She's hilarious. Dana and I call her Jannie and we look up to her.
On a sad note, the elevator that I love so much is no longer working. RIP ellie.
On a lighter note, Mensa now has cream cheese!
To sum things up, I'm going to London on friday and I found Nella in the Rome phonebook.
ciao amici
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Hola, Bonjour, Ciao.
SB '10!!!
For spring break I went to Madrid and Paris, and it was a grand time.
Our flight to Madrid was at 6am so we had to leave for the airport at 3. JOY. Once we were in Madrid, we were pretty out of it and tired. Not too fun the first day. The first night we had to stay in separate hostels, but the second night we were together in Cat's (which as you can imagine was nicknamed something else by us) Hostel. Dana, Deedee and I were in a room with 9 strangers. I actually liked it, they were creeped out by the other people. The first night we had a warm welcoming by two of our roommates who decided to have sex 2 yards away from us. I got to listen to a good hour of broken english/ God knows what language dirty talk. After they finished, I finally got a few hours of sleep in.
Our normal roommates were American students on Spring Break from Philly and Penn State. Ye and Jeff. They were nice, and they reminded us of some of our friends from home. I'll miss them.
Madrid was nice. Cold and rainy most of the time there, so that was pretty annoying. I enjoyed speaking Spanish, and dunkin donuts. !!! we went there 4 times. I was so glad that there was one right by our hostel. We also dined on such authentic Spanish food such as McDonalds, BurgerKing, and Turkish Kebabs.
Paris was amaaazing. A lot nicer than I thought it would be. We had a private room in the hostel, so no worries for me about sex-ing roomies. Dana and deedee were probably still creeped out by ME, but, I've become used to this.
Today I went to hear the Pope read the Gospel! It was ok. It didn't last very long, and he was waaaay up in his window, so for all I know, it could have been Nancy Reagan up there. We also went to the catacombs.
I've got a lot of homework to do so I've gotta make this short.
Ciao homie g's.
SB '10!!!
For spring break I went to Madrid and Paris, and it was a grand time.
Our flight to Madrid was at 6am so we had to leave for the airport at 3. JOY. Once we were in Madrid, we were pretty out of it and tired. Not too fun the first day. The first night we had to stay in separate hostels, but the second night we were together in Cat's (which as you can imagine was nicknamed something else by us) Hostel. Dana, Deedee and I were in a room with 9 strangers. I actually liked it, they were creeped out by the other people. The first night we had a warm welcoming by two of our roommates who decided to have sex 2 yards away from us. I got to listen to a good hour of broken english/ God knows what language dirty talk. After they finished, I finally got a few hours of sleep in.
Our normal roommates were American students on Spring Break from Philly and Penn State. Ye and Jeff. They were nice, and they reminded us of some of our friends from home. I'll miss them.
Madrid was nice. Cold and rainy most of the time there, so that was pretty annoying. I enjoyed speaking Spanish, and dunkin donuts. !!! we went there 4 times. I was so glad that there was one right by our hostel. We also dined on such authentic Spanish food such as McDonalds, BurgerKing, and Turkish Kebabs.
Paris was amaaazing. A lot nicer than I thought it would be. We had a private room in the hostel, so no worries for me about sex-ing roomies. Dana and deedee were probably still creeped out by ME, but, I've become used to this.
Today I went to hear the Pope read the Gospel! It was ok. It didn't last very long, and he was waaaay up in his window, so for all I know, it could have been Nancy Reagan up there. We also went to the catacombs.
I've got a lot of homework to do so I've gotta make this short.
Ciao homie g's.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Typical.
Alo!
Well. What a span of time it has been since my last blog! I'm not sure where to begin.
I don't think anything rather exciting happened before Munich, plus I'm not sure I remember anything, so I'll skip straight to Munich. Ahhh Munich. LOVED IT. It was honestly the best place I've ever been to. First of all I am in love with German food. Sausages, pretzels, and the desserts. Oh lawdy. We stayed at Jaeger's hostel. Quite appropriate for me if I do say so. Dana and I were in a room with 6 other random people. Four of them were American girls studying in London, Dana's bunkmate was Lisa! A swedish girl who just got an internship in Munich, and My bunkmate was Rodrigo, a spanish-german guy going on a post-college (i think? i never actually met him, i just looked at his luggage.) tour of Germany. Lisa was fun. We talked about her like we were friends with her. The only interaction I had with Rodrigo was when he awkwardly waved at me one morning. He was a nice guy. I found him on facebook, and his pictures were rather sad. It was just him alone in front of various German monuments. Oh Roddy. Maybe we'll meet again someday. We went on a free tour of Munich, and then we also went on a Beer challenge! Our Austrian guide was Claudia and I, of course, loved her. During said beer crawl, I snapped a pretty amazing photo of one of my friends making out with one of the random London girls. I posted the picture on facebook when we got back, and, well, I'm a JFRC celebrity now! The Rome Center was "abuzz" as one of my loyal fans Margie said. They all loved my picture. I mean, I have some good photog skillz (see my facebook album titled "Claudia, I can't chug this in five minutes!"). In any case, Munich was great and I can't wait to go back someday.
This week was MIDTERMS. Oy vey. But I still made time to keep the fans happy and go play Calcio last night. There were quite a few injuries, not to me, and not caused by me. I helped my team by screaming "kill him!" "pull her pony-tail!" "break his OTHER arm!" "plow that hussey down!" and various other motivational chants. I didn't score any goals, but I scored a plethora of digits. {I was wearing my purple leggings ;) }
Today I had 3 midterms! First Film, which was a little tricky. Then Italian, which I aced. My proffy Nadia and I kinda have a little thing going. I mean, I'm not gonna say anything, but, you know. Today she said I got an A+ on my midterm, and I had just handed it in! She hadn't even looked at it. It's love. After Italian, I had my last one, History. It was essay, so, blah. But I sure chugged on through it, and prevailed (I hope).
Shout out to Mary DeMaria! Love you Babe!
OH! Tonight Dana and I discovered the JFRC elevator! I will now be using it to go ANYWHERE in the building if it requires stairs. It's a two person elevator, and there is no front door, so you could potentially lose your hand, foot, or face, depending on how close to the wall you are standing. And when it arrives on your chosen floor, it screeches to a halt. It's great. If you take it to the 2nd floor it drops you off in a bathroom! I'm not sure who built this thing, but this building used to be for nuns, and they sure were hilarious.
Well, this blog was brought to you by popular demand, and I do mean DEMAND. I will be boarding a flight to Madrid in about 4 hours! Madrid and Paris for spring break. Does it bother anyone else that you can't say spring break oh-___ anymore?? I'll still say oh-ten!
In other news, I got an egg and cheese panini from Nella today, and when she gave it to me, she said mmm num yumm yum yum yum. I almost peed my pants. She wants me.
Ciao!
Well. What a span of time it has been since my last blog! I'm not sure where to begin.
I don't think anything rather exciting happened before Munich, plus I'm not sure I remember anything, so I'll skip straight to Munich. Ahhh Munich. LOVED IT. It was honestly the best place I've ever been to. First of all I am in love with German food. Sausages, pretzels, and the desserts. Oh lawdy. We stayed at Jaeger's hostel. Quite appropriate for me if I do say so. Dana and I were in a room with 6 other random people. Four of them were American girls studying in London, Dana's bunkmate was Lisa! A swedish girl who just got an internship in Munich, and My bunkmate was Rodrigo, a spanish-german guy going on a post-college (i think? i never actually met him, i just looked at his luggage.) tour of Germany. Lisa was fun. We talked about her like we were friends with her. The only interaction I had with Rodrigo was when he awkwardly waved at me one morning. He was a nice guy. I found him on facebook, and his pictures were rather sad. It was just him alone in front of various German monuments. Oh Roddy. Maybe we'll meet again someday. We went on a free tour of Munich, and then we also went on a Beer challenge! Our Austrian guide was Claudia and I, of course, loved her. During said beer crawl, I snapped a pretty amazing photo of one of my friends making out with one of the random London girls. I posted the picture on facebook when we got back, and, well, I'm a JFRC celebrity now! The Rome Center was "abuzz" as one of my loyal fans Margie said. They all loved my picture. I mean, I have some good photog skillz (see my facebook album titled "Claudia, I can't chug this in five minutes!"). In any case, Munich was great and I can't wait to go back someday.
This week was MIDTERMS. Oy vey. But I still made time to keep the fans happy and go play Calcio last night. There were quite a few injuries, not to me, and not caused by me. I helped my team by screaming "kill him!" "pull her pony-tail!" "break his OTHER arm!" "plow that hussey down!" and various other motivational chants. I didn't score any goals, but I scored a plethora of digits. {I was wearing my purple leggings ;) }
Today I had 3 midterms! First Film, which was a little tricky. Then Italian, which I aced. My proffy Nadia and I kinda have a little thing going. I mean, I'm not gonna say anything, but, you know. Today she said I got an A+ on my midterm, and I had just handed it in! She hadn't even looked at it. It's love. After Italian, I had my last one, History. It was essay, so, blah. But I sure chugged on through it, and prevailed (I hope).
Shout out to Mary DeMaria! Love you Babe!
OH! Tonight Dana and I discovered the JFRC elevator! I will now be using it to go ANYWHERE in the building if it requires stairs. It's a two person elevator, and there is no front door, so you could potentially lose your hand, foot, or face, depending on how close to the wall you are standing. And when it arrives on your chosen floor, it screeches to a halt. It's great. If you take it to the 2nd floor it drops you off in a bathroom! I'm not sure who built this thing, but this building used to be for nuns, and they sure were hilarious.
Well, this blog was brought to you by popular demand, and I do mean DEMAND. I will be boarding a flight to Madrid in about 4 hours! Madrid and Paris for spring break. Does it bother anyone else that you can't say spring break oh-___ anymore?? I'll still say oh-ten!
In other news, I got an egg and cheese panini from Nella today, and when she gave it to me, she said mmm num yumm yum yum yum. I almost peed my pants. She wants me.
Ciao!
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