a badly punctuated stream of consciousness

even about an uneventful week i can write for hours

well, as i am at school and have limited time, today i havent got any lyrics from songs to slip in here, but i will think lots about it for my next blog :) i did think about using 'another lonely day' but today, i am not lonely, so it doesnt really fit.

spring is finally here apparently! the sun is shining and the sky is blue today! hooray!!! it really is good, because i am so sick of wearing 5 and 6 layers of clothing to school and not being able to move my arms properly cos i am restricted by layer upon layer of clothing. lol. and it will be nice to be finally able to wear a skirt again, because as much as i love jeans....i am kind of sick of them. so hopefully soon it will warm up and i can really get stuck into the gelati!

i have had a rather uneventful week i guess, as things are falling into a comfortable routine here. i was fairly down and really very homesick for about four days but the second half of yesterday and most of today have been much better and i feel more like me again. last thursday and friday it snowed again and i remembered to take some photos of it this time so eventually i will get around to sending some or maybe posting them on this blog, if i ever figure out how to do it, but for the moment you will just have to imagine it. it was fun actually cos the snow was all powdery and hadnt yet gone hard and icy, so we made a few snowballs and erica made a tiny snowman which is now just a hat and a carrot sitting in the middle of the garden. hehe. on friday before our italian lesson, maddie, maria and i went into a park and took a bunch of photos which was really heaps of fun....until i had another clumsy moment! note to self, dont run in half melted snow! i fell over and landed in a slushy, muddy, wet patch :( but while i did get a little wet and a little muddy, it was just so hilarious that i didnt really mind! and while i am on the topic of clumsiness, yes michael it is entirely possible to fall UP stairs. i woudl have thought it woudl be obvious what i meant by that too.....the opposite of falling down stairs, instead you fall up.

anyway, on wednesday night i went to a band rehearsal! i didnt play of course but i watched and although the group was very small and far from perfect, i had such a great time! i must admit that i was probably rather too many critical thoughts, but i guess i have been too well trained. throughout the time i could hear mrs d's voice in my head saying things like 'suck in 6 litres of air' and 'keep your eyes up' hehe. it did make me miss band and i was thinking of all of you in my band family a lot, but overall i had a really good time.

saturday afternoon i was rather homesick and also very tired, so i slept for a while. i then turned on the tv to discover there was some kind of concert or music program with michael buble! so i very happily watched that and resolved yet again to buy his new album, which i did yesterday. hooray! buble, buble, buble! he is really popular here actually and he said on the tv show that he is getting an italian citizenship in a month so that is pretty cool i think. who knows, maybe i will see him around. lol on saturday night i borrowed a dvd all by myself! i was so proud! usually when we borrow them i am with elisa and she does the talking, and it is alwasy the same guy behind the counter, who knows us by now. so i was fairly confident even though this time i was alone, cos i thought it woudl be easy since he woudl recognise me. but it was a different guy! i was very nervous but i approached the counter and started to try to speak in italian when he said 'no no, in english.' he said that in english by the way, not italian. i have no idea how he knew i spoke english, but maybe it was a guess. still, we had a bit of a conversation and i successfully borrowed the video, even though i was using elisa's account, and i left the shop feeling very confidant at having achieved it on my own. funny how little things seem so big for me here.

well yesterday my mood improved fortunately, when i went shopping with maddie and maria. it probably wasnt as successful as i had hoped, cos i forgot half of the things on my list, but i had a great time and did manage to buy some clothes. i also walked home from the piazza all by myslef which i was also proud of. we then went to nonna's house in modena for dinner for elisa's birthday which is tomorrow. it was pretty fun, the food was fantastic, and i got a present too! how nice! but we came home late so today i am very tired. school has been good today though, cos it is 'women's day'. it is to appreciate women and the men are apparently supposed to buy yellow flowers for all the girls but i havent seen many in anybody's hands, let alone mine! lol. but we spent most of one of my english lessons today talking about how far women have come and the like which was really interesting. mum, i bragged about you a fair bit, because you have done so many important things as a woman and i cant imagine a better example. everybody was very suprised to hear that you were a minister, and most couldnt imagine a 'priest' taking her kids to school. mind you, that was coming from a roman catholic point of view, but i felt proud to have such a great mum! i have to admit that i did get quite teary after a while cos they kept asking questions about your life and how it worked (people, it isnt that complicated - it works exactly the same as if she was a man. but it seemed to take them a while to get thier head around it) and the more i talked about it the closer to tears i got. thankfully, eventually the questions stopped.

well this afternoon i am off to the conservatorium to play the piano again (hooray) and hopefully will see my new freinds that i made last week. and tonight i am going out ot tea with elisa and all the girls in her class as a celebration both of her birthday and women's day.

one good thing that has happened in the last week is that my language has improved. i feel i have a little more grasp on it all now i suppose, and in the last week there was a notable 'jump' in my skill level, if that makes sense. anyway, bell is going to ring so i have to end this here.

i miss you all but am doing ok :)
love always
ellen

posted by Ellen of Taranganba @ 3:41 AM