ten days
hello
well it's been ten days without you in my reach,
and the only time i have touched you is in my sleep.
but time has changed nothing at all
you're still the only one that feels like home
well, today is as cold as ever. in fact, in my last class i had to put my jacket on, despite the heaters and the 4 layers of tops and jumpers i was already wearing! and when i stepped of the bus this afternoon it was three degrees.
actually, speaking of the bus, i am very proud today, because after only catching it twice before, i braved the trip both to and from school on my own today! elisa didnt come to school, and i was very nervous, but i managed to get on the right bus and ended up in the right place. hooray
yesterday was the weekend, although it was only sunday. we slept in which was excellent! and then after lunch i went to watch elisa play tennis in the finals of the competition she has been going to all week. it was about an hours drive each way so it was a decent trip. because it is so cold they played in doors, or at least, in huge big white puffy tents. i imagined it woudl be warm inside them, but it really wasnt much warmer than outside. i guess it was ok for elisa and her competitor, as they were rather active, although it must have been cold at first, but i was really really shivvering by the end, even though i was wearing my big jacket, 5 layers of tops and thermals (thankyou domenic!) under my jeans, and a beanie and gloves. it was just soo cold and because i was sitting in one place for the whole game it guess that contributed to my coldness. mum, i think i have inherited your cold hands syndrome, as even when i am inside or wearing mittens my hands still feel cold to the rest of my skin!
unfortunately elisa did not win the tennis final, but that was something i did not find out until afterwards, even though i saw the whole thing. i kind of followed it, and i could mostly tell who was winning the games, but the sets and stuff i got all confused with my numbers and the announcer guy was speaking waay to fast for me to really follow anyway. and to make things worse, elisa seemed very happy that she had lost, and both girls got a trophy, so in the presentations i also couldnt tell, because everybody had trophies and were smiling and laughing. i guess i am not a big tennis person, but i probably will be by the time i come home! it was fairly entertaining and it really made me want to play (althouhg that could have been cos i was freezing!)
well one good thing about school here in italy is that most of the girls are as short as me so i dont feel like the minority. hooray! some of the boys are pretty tall, but even then, most are not muhc taller than the girls, which is just excellent!
one thing i dont think i will get used to is the smoking here. apparently the legal age is 16 but most people dont really care anyway so it seems like everysecond person is smoking at school. of course they cannot smoke inside, so all the doorways are crowded around and i hate leaving the buildings cos it is like walking into a freezing gas chamber. and then standing near people or sitting next to them i often find myself holding my breath because they smell so strongly like ashtrays. so i am also missing australia's smoking laws, and the clean air we are able to breathe. actually, everything smells here. it seems i am unable to go anywhere without being accosted by a strong and often unpleasant smell. whether it is the ciggarette smoke, the fumes from cars, the horrible musty smell that lots of inside places smell of because they are locked up and being heated all winter, or whatever, it all smells horrible and polluted and yuk. the only thing i have almost liked so far is the smell of smoke at night time, but smoke from fires, not ciggies. it sort of fills the air at night which, although it is at times unpleasant, usually reminds me of camping or something so that is kind of ok.
allora, that is all for now
missing you as usual, but feeling rather good today
love ellen
posted by Ellen of Taranganba @ 4:24 PM
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