good michele

fine, i will stinking post. i have not really been doing a lot recently though, so that's my warning. i have no clue what i'm going to write about. alright, i guess my last post was about the weekend in recanati and stuff like that, so what did i do afterward? oh yeah, ok, i remember now.

the weekend right after that one, which was i believe the 8-9 or something, we stayed in padova. i probably did some reading and writing and stuff like that.

the weekend after that one but before this one, jamal and i went to Domodossola to visit professoressa bossola, who taught us italian for our first 2 years at WU. so we showed up saturday at the train station, she, her husband, and her 3.5 year old bambino cesare picked us up. cesare is really cute, cuter even than most babies that speak italian, and it does not get much cuter than that. so we got a guided tour of the town, which is really small, kind of nestled-like into the mountains up near the border (the town is 13 km from switzerland). cesare kept wanting to go back to the piazza with the fountain, so we passed that about 3 times, and jamal and i realized how sweet of a gig babies have, they can do whatever the f they want. he also had a toy rifle and he kept stomping in puddles and splashing water everywhere. his mom told him that jamal and i would leave if he kept doing that, and he said in a sad italian baby voice that we had to stay so that we could shoot the wolves. given that jamal and i run around pretending to have bows and arrows and stuff like that all the time, you can see why we would have found little cesarino to be quite a baller.

OH MAN, I HAD ALMOST FORGOTTEN. we went to play some bocce. it was quite awesome, except cesarino likes to steal the little target ball and run away, but when he wasn't doing that, i was creaming jamal, i even took a video of this one perfect toss i did. yeahhhhh.

then we walked around this hill with lots of tiny little chapels on it, inside each one was a large statue scene of jesus' passion thing. it was a nice walk.

then we went home and had some dinner with the family and some of their friends, met a guy who reminded me quite a bit of a mix between aaron ross and my dad. it was weird. and then jamal and i slept in the same bed...ugh.

the next day we did some more walking and picnic-ing type stuff. it was a nice break from bigcitychurchart sort of junk. though honestly i am not sure i have been in a museum the whole trip.

so that's about all for that weekend. mostly jstu hanging out with a professor and telling her how people are at wu, playing with the toddler, ecc (that's italian for etc).

on to this week. this was the last week of classes. actually the italian university classes that i have to go to are over already but i am still going because the professor rocks. so anyway i still have had my normal class schedule, i have exams next week, and i turn in my paper next week, but i really have very little work to do. i am pretty sure none of my teachers read this.

so i guess the two most interesting things happened on tuesday and thursday. on tuesday, our apartment was not supposed to have water, since they were doing some construction somewhere or something. Aldo (dad) left me a note on the bathroom door saying (in italian) "mike, after you take a shower, fill up the vasca." i am leaving the word vasca in italian because i did not know what it meant. so there was a pitcher on the edge of the tub and i cleverly deduced that the pitcher must be the vasca, since it is not usually there. though i could not imagine what good 2 liters of water would be. so i dutifully filled it up to the brim. then i got home and aldo fake-yelled at me, "why didn't you fill up the vasca." and i told him that i did. but then it turns out that the vasca is the bath tub...imagine that. they wanted me to fill it up so that they could flush the toilet by takign water from the tub with the pitcher and all that - what a clever family. i thwarted their plans though. nothing is foolproof if you have a sufficiently talented fool, i think i have heard. so that was a fun dinner, aldo tried to make me eat some stinky cheese as punishment and i refused, and instead said we should put it under jamal's bed. he liked that idea. jamal, you should notice it in a few days.

so the second story also has to do with aldo. i was out to dinner with anthony thursday night. actually i will say a little about that. we were in the mood to go somewhere new. oh my lord, the whole screen just went black and there was a tiny white line across it and i was pretty sure the monitor was broken and that i had lost all of this darling post. i told aldo to come in here and he slapped the monitor and it came back on. phew. it just happened again and i slapped it and it came back. so anyawy anthony and i went around the city, tried to get lost, thought we were lost, but then all of a sudden we were somewhere we recognized, so we failed in getting lost. the city is not as big as i thought. so we ate at a new place, and aldo called me in the middle of dinner to tell me about the game show we usually watch, which involves 20 boxes and moneyprizes and the contestant has to keep guessing boxes and stuff like that. aldo has some mysterious guessing ability and my theory is that he watches the show in the AM before i wake up, and then it is shown again at night,and he laughed when i told him that. but anyway he called me to tell me that he had guessed correctly again. what a goofball. also, he just left the apartment, and he said to me "if you need something, (i expected him to say i could call him) take care of it on your own." "this is what i say when i want to seem helpful but i don't want to do anything." so yeah, aldo is cool.

also, i made a cd for giulia and for isabella, giulia liked it so i made her another one, isabella still has not listened to it after like 2 weeks or something, what a lazy girl. but, on the up side, she did get a pet iguana, which is pretty baller but also pretty useless. she got a pet duck about 2 months ago but then they sent it off to the farm house, i wonder if the same will happen to the iguana.

and, i guess i will add on some summer plans. i went to that museum in recanati, recall? when i was there i asked this lady if they needed someone who speaks english to come for the summer, she said i should email, so i emailed, and the secretary responded saying "i called the countess, who is currently out of town and will come back on weds, and she is interested and will call you." but then she has not called me yet, which stinks, because it would be really cool to go to that museum and translate and stuff like that for 6 weeks. but if that does not work out, i will be back in ytown or stl, who knows.

as for post-semester, pre-summer, may 30-june 21, i do not know what i am doing. wait, from june 12 on the parents are here and also jamal's mom, so i know what i am doing then. but from may 28 or 30 to june 10, we do not know for sure. mabye some germany and switzerland and lake como action, hopefully.

i hope you slobbery hyenas are satisfied.