Surprise!

Settembre 11, 2010

Today I woke up later than normal, about 8.30. The boys, Mattis, and Nico, were up playing Mariokart while Raffa and Giorgio watched/ read the paper. I got took a shower and got ready to go to the Nazionale Museo. On the way to the museo I saw the car that I am going to own one day. *hint hint mom* I only saw it briefly as we drove by on the bus, but I know it was love at first sight. I don't know much about it, just that it was a black Lamborghini...*sigh*...so back from my daydream...I bought my ticket which was good to see the Museo and the Diocletian baths. I spent a little more than 2 hours in the Museo. Four levels, each one with something different on it. I think I'm going to have to make a separate album for all the pictures... or maybe just a brief intermission in my current album for museo pictures... the terra piano(ground floor); there were a lot of very cool Roman sculptures and some Greek sculptures. Primo piano(first floor); more Greek sculptures. Secondo piano(second floor); a lot of frescos and mosaics of ALL sizes. One fresco in one of the rooms was painted on all four walls of the room, like a garden. One of the mosaics was about a 15X15 foot square on the floor... the mosaics seemed to withstand the test of time the best, besides the bronze sculptures. The basement(interrato primo); had hundreds of monies from Rome and Italy throughout the ages.

I went to Irish pub I'd found after I'd finished the museo and ordered l'acqua naturale and a pizza with sausage, mushrooms, and cheese... delicious. Grabbed a caffe gelato afterwards then headed to the Diocletian baths. I'd lost my museo ticket but the man was nice enough to believe that I'd bought one earlier that day when I tried to show him the pictures I'd taken, but he said it wouldn't do any good since he'd never been to the museo himself. Haha. The baths were once the largest public baths in all of Italy... and the museum had nothing to do with that. It mostly had fragments of sarcophagi and alters with some worn out statues that had been in the weather a bit. It was still a beautiful building and garden, but I'm glad that I didn't pay to get in...

I headed back to the flat and slept for a good hour, I was tired. When I awoke, everyone was gone but Diletta, and she was leaving. I didn't feel like sitting there. So I went for a walk on via Nemorense, it has some neat shops and ristoranti. When I got back Giorgio was home doing finances for something and I read some in my new Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ontology. Nico called and asked what kind of pizza we wanted, I said surprise me, Giorgio wanted Napoli(every pizza has a name, I just don't know them all yet). We watched a Jackie Chan movie, the Babysitter, it was pretty good, much less action than most Jackie Chan movies... Then we went to bed.

Giorgio also talked to me about my pay and asked how much I'd agreed to with the agency I've been working with to get the position. I told him the amount they sent me in an email and he said that seemed low and that I should double check with the agency to make sure it's correct. That would be pretty cool if I was getting paid more! Then I could start saving for a plane ride home for the holidays! :)Surprise money! It's like a pinata, you just start whacking away at it, then BOOM! Good stuff! Ok, not exactly like a pinata.... ;)

I am going to go to an English speaking Methodist church in the morning and see if I like it or not.

Hope you're all doing well. Miss you. Stay safe. and like my freshman biology professor told us... "stay out of trees and don't smoke cigarettes!" :) NIGHT!