September 16, 2010
This morning started off like all the others, wake up, eat with Giorgio and Nico then send Nico off to school. Pretty uneventful, but while we were eating, Giorgio did inform me that there was a spy among us… that Nico was going to tell Raffa everything that we did wrong while she was gone, a tiny mole in the clan of men. ;) Then Giorgio commenced to tell Nico how lying is ok if the intention is good, but only then… the whole situation seemed like a sitcom being set for complete failure… Then before I left for my run, I decided to use a little Aggie-ingenuity and fix my busted headphones, thus resulting in:
**Top 5 reasons I’m not an electrical engineer:
6. I hate math
5. I’m too good looking ;)
4. Unless Schrodinger was the full name of the pianist in Peanuts, I don’t care?
3. I cannot fail to attend class, not study, AND still make decent grades
2. I don’t pretend to understand “Black Magic”
1. I can’t fix a broken set of headphones with a leatherman tool, and scotch tape.
The headphones worked out of one ear before I started messing with them… now they don’t even have a headphone jack anymore… whatever. So I put on my FUNCTIONAL headphones and went to work out at Villa Ada.
I decided to take a couple different turns and ended up completely lost on top of the hill in the park… good news is I knew the lake was at the bottom of the hill, somewhere. So, I started running in what I thought was a good direction, and let me tell you there were some pretty steep parts on that hill… I was half running half sliding down the hill. At one point I actually tripped and started to fall but caught my feet on some loose leaves and before hitting my back and head on a tree next to me did a neat little sliding 360 turn, then just continued running on the now flat surface. It was scary but awesome at the same time. I got a little confidence booster while I was working out because there was another guy training for something with a “coach” and the guy training was kind of lazy, so it made me feel good about myself.
Since I was doing laundry (with the most appreciated help from Anita), I was unable to go see the Parthenon but did get further along in my second mystery, ’The Sign of Four’. Diletta and I watched some ‘Friends’ then when Nico got home we played at Lavinia & Martina’s flat before dinner. After dinner Raffa returned from France and showed us some things she’d bought. Diletta, Giorgio, Raffa, and I talked about healthcare, universities, and relationships over dinner some. Apparently the healthcare system here works well when they are managed properly, but unfortunately, the free health care is not managed hardly at all from Rome south in Italy. A lot of people go to Italian hospitals and get free care even if they’re not Italian citizens, thus they never have paid any taxes to support the free health care that they are currently receiving… I see this as a possible problem to the American health care reform (correct me if I’m wrong please). Apparently, the doctors here are good physicians but since the health care is low on funds from the people that get the free care without the pay and such, the state (who pays the doctors) cannot afford to pay them much. Therefore, many physicians work both for the state and have a private practice to supplement their income… that's a LOT of work!
That’s about all I have for today, after dinner, Giorgio and I watched some of a war movie/series that had the young boy from the first Jurassic Park as the main character, “The Pacific”. While we were watching (that was a lot of W’s in a row) we were chatting some and Giorgio mentioned that I have a very good Italian accent when I speak Italian... I don’t speak well...but when I do, the accent is good. ^_^ it made my day to know that people think I’m Italian when I speak to them… but then that usually causes them to respond... still working on that part...
BUONA NOTTE!!! <3
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