Day Seven.

Not much happened today.

I woke up feeling better and took a shower.

Class started at 9 and went until 12. We are starting the semester with a Cinema class and so two professors from Alba are teaching us Italian Cinema, focusing on the Renaissance period of the 1950's and early 1960's. Tuesdays are lectures and Wednesdays are movie viewings with discussion afterward. Understanding them through their accents is quite hard, even if they speak good English. It's just very hard to focus on and comprehend in large, long chunks. It's hard to explain why but it's just difficult to do.

Then we went to lunch and I ate a full meal and felt not so good afterward. I think the food here is just too much and too rich. I'm trying to keep it light now. For instance, I skipped dinner and just had a small sandwich instead.

After lunch I went to two of our meal places and tried to redeem meal vouchers for money. At Akash and VinCafe, our vouchers are worth $10 and if you spend less than $10 then you get back change. So when we go away (like this weekend) our plan is to turn in vouchers beforehand and get the money back to use for food in Italy. I got a croissant at Akash and successfully got change. At Vin, I got the sandwich I later ate for dinner but they didn't have enough change to give me back so I ended up paying for it...Yay.

After lunch we had Italian class from 2:30-3:30 with Dino who is...practically awful. His accent is alright but every third word is "Uhh." He likes linguistics a bit too much and, though I love linguistics, it isn't exactly what we're looking to get out of the class. We'll see if his approach (very different from how we are used to learning languages) works out in the end.

Class let out and I checked out a textbook on the off chance that I'll want to use it (I'm taking the class as a Pass/Fail so I'm not too concerned) and then headed back to the apartment. I hung around until 7ish when we had to go to a photobooth and get pictures taken to give to the police(?). Maybe he explained it yesterday but I still don't know why we needed pictures. Oh well, I didn't have to pay for them.

I walked home after that because everyone else was going to dinner but I knew dinner would just upset my stomach--it was already not feeling too good from all that walking. I did some more resume stuff and filled out an application but mostly was on the computer, watching last night's episodes of House and Big Bang Theory that I missed.

Not much today but you can't expect something amazing and notable to happen every day.

Bedtime, now. Tomorrow we'll watch a movie but nothing much else will happen. Keep a grip on your seats.