Beautiful Candlelit Dinner

Dicembre 1-3, 2010

Dicembre 1, 2010

I seriously opened the computer and caught up on blogs today... (then as you can tell by this posting date, I got a little lax again) I started my Christmas calendar opening it and finding a small square of chocolate with a poinsetta or stella di natale.

Dicembre 2, 2010

This morning I woke up to no power... There apparently had been a wire short under the street and it resulted in no electricity in our building.

It turns out I didn't do as spectacularly on my test as I'd hoped, most of it was stupid mistakes I didn't go back and re-read. meh. It's not for a grade or anything, just to see where you stand. I'm still confident I knew the material, I was just rushing...

When I got home, Nic and I had fun trying to re-research Ben Franklin without electricity, ironic, right?(his teacher kept his last report with all the info, and now we were supposed to make a timeline) After we finished, we had a nice, beautiful romantic dinner by candle light... 10 candles in 2 candelabras make a lot of light.

It was also the greatest woman in the world's birthday today! HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!!!! :) I was fortunate and got to call her and talk to her and dad for a bit after hanging out with Erica, Nora, Jelco, and Axelle in the center. We went and saw some Christmas decorations at Piazza Navonna. Really neat.

Dicembre 3, 2010

FRIDAY!!!! Went to class for a series of games and "get to know you" activities this morning... I thought it was a performance that the advanced class had been working on. Turns out, they were just games... Barbara, Camilla, and I were the only ones there NOT in the advanced class, but I think we did pretty well... there were games to meet people and remember names, and things like that... but the hardest was the last game. We were in a circle and we had to go one after another making up parts of one big story... REALLY forcing you to listen, comprehend, then speak. I liked Camilla's take on the game... she just killed the princess to make things easier. ;) We did some fun "acting" scenes... make a series of yes's and no's make sense with body language... do stupid movements until you get close to a previously assigned (unknown) group movement...Turns out the performance will begin in January and we're supposed to say if we would be interested in participating... I think I may, I'll look at the text over the holidays and see...

Mattis came over and we played soldiers while Nic was at tennis... I taught him the beauty of a suicide kill... (kill yourself and your opponent just for the sake of prohibiting your opponent the joy of the kill. that was for all my smash bro. friends... ;) Then we watched HP 4, I did my best to not quote it too much...