Ottobre 17, 2010
This morning I woke up. YES! I FREAKIN' LOVE WAKING UP! (because it beats the alternative) I decided I didn't feel like running or doing push ups or pull ups or sit ups or crunches... so I got some stuff together and walked to Villa Borghese. I brought a camera this time. I took some lovely pictures and was able to see much more of the park this time around. (go check my facebook album if you'd like to see the pictures) So walking to Villa Borghese I got to see more of the places I drive by on the bus, but don't ever get to stop at, shops and markets, things like that. Then I walked around Villa Borghese and saw lots of interesting things... being a weekday morning not a weekend afternoon, it was a lot more desolate on the occasion... I haven't decided if I like that more or not... less people watching opportunities, but more alone, thinking time without distractions. I felt like I could take my time, enjoying myself, strolling, taking 20 pictures of a duck just to delete 90% of them, sitting... this morning was great. When I headed back, I walked a longer route back. Saw more of via Veneto than I'd seen before and more of the side streets off via Salaria and via Boncompagni.
On the way I checked the price for a hotel near the flat for my parents, from what I gathered, they're estimating the price to be 70 euro in april... un cento settanta could have been what the guy said (170) but that seemed a little high for this place... it's very nice, don't get me wrong, but it's not in centro near all the monuments and sites...
when I got back, I went and finished picking up, and folding my laundry. When Nic and Lavi got home BOTH of them forgot 2/3 of their homework so they could only do geografia... which is fortunate since it was due tomorrow... since it was in Italian, Zia Paola helped them with it. I love the way she does homework with them... It's like a game show and she's the announcer calling on the contestants whichever can raise their hand first. However, if the question is easy, you get both of them responding inspite of the elevated hand. I think they enjoy it more too, it's not as tedious and they feel like they're having fun. It's harder to do that with math or reading when the main point is practicing their English.
After we left Lavi's, we came upstairs and Nic worked on my computer to do his project one the liver. He researched through wikipedia (useless details) and some website titled "Mama's Health" or something like that (much more age appropriate details and info). I showed him some keystroke shortcuts he loved... bragging probably no one else in his class knew how to copy/paste/change screens with the ctrl key. ;) His typing is tediously slow, but he's 9... I'm pretty sure mine was still that bad when I was a freshman in high school... I don't think I picked it up until later, really coming into my own with the keyboard at University. ;) *I casually bragged to Nic that when I'm tired, but still have writing to do, I lay my head on my arms and keep typing without looking, he was impressed. ;)*
We had dinner fettucini con sugo al tonno (with tuna red sauce) and fried chicken breasts, spinach, and fruit (super healthy with the fried chicken, yeah?) He didn't want to stop reading his Topolino (Italian Mickey Mouse comic) while he was eating, he couldn't put it down... but he finished his food anyway... even the stuff I snuck on his plate while he was reading...hahaha.
Ok... that's all she wrote... Buondi!
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