The “Collegio Alma Mater” lobby turned into an indoor soccer field this evening after dinner. A couple nights ago it was a card game room, and a couple nights before that it was the room where Chelsea and I first walked into to be greeted by Hillary to welcome us to Bologna and that same night it was where I first met some of the greatest Italian teachers, my friends (Italian and non Italian), and people. (The “Collegio Alma Mater” lobby will always be a butt warming car seat heater- as many people (mostly Chelsea and I, warm our butts by sitting on the buildings heater tubes.)
I was the monkey in the 3 on 1 soccer game against Claudio, Marco and one other Italian guy. Thinking I was a girl and at a disadvantage I proved them wrong. Short, fast and furious…Like at the gym too. Tonight the gym turned into a “distcoteca” as Chelsea, Stacey, Lee, and myself were joined by Steffano, Giovanni and Paul and had an ipod war between American music and Italian music. Both had Lady Gaga.
And I felt like ga-ga-ing as I was waaaaaay over caffeinated today- but, as I will defend myself- it was my compiti’ (homework) to do so.
I have described Bologna as a treasure, and my being here a treasure hunt. Well, today it was literally true. “Cultural Friday” as the name goes for the so called “schooling” I do here, called for a treasure hunt to a bar, interviewing thee barista, and taking pictures and then walking to another bar and meeting up with the professoressa Lorenza and the other students to be interviewed about our findings and observations.
My partner Jackie probably regretted her decision (actually she told me she did…jokingly… I think) to be my partner the second we turned down the first street… into the market! I tried on a sequin dress top and poodle skirt and made her take some snapshots! And then told her to get dressed up for her photoshoot. She did not like the idea and disagreed. I tried to get her to take some “scavenger hunt” like pictures, but once again she did not like the idea. We sprinted off to find our assigned caffe’…halfway across the world! But once we arrived it was well worth the glamorous café’ and the mouth watering (more like mouth burning café’)…where we ordered due cappuccino and Jackie orded a rice pudding cake of some sort. We observed an old man spill his coffee…and then made up the rest of our observations…
Once we traveled halfway across the world again and into the second bar, Lorenza asked us to order in Italian another beverage- once again, due cappuccino with chocolate! Delitzioso! That would be my second cappuccino in the hour...and for breakfast I had 2 espressos. Which were both double’s. so that’s 6 coffee’s in 2 hours. I was speedwalking Bologna. But, Jackie and I discovered some more beautiful, glamorous, some tiny and “antique” as our caffeinated bodies booked Bologna’s borders. And to settle my bodies caffeinated convulsions I fed it a chocolate croissant (cornetto) for lunch. Oh Bologna! I mean Oh Cappucinoes and Cornettoes!
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