Flat

I went to see my new flat today, it's not very big, but my room is, it's 195e a month not including bills.
I'll post a picture up when I move in on sunday, and if I have internet.
I'll be living with two girls, one's 24 and the other 22 they're both students.
I'm going shopping soon with Annamaria and her friend Liglia to buy things to make it pretty :) and hopefully I will be able to borrow some of the other girls cooking stuff...
It's near a pizzeria, a bakery and a butchers, 10 minutes from the school and 15 from the station and nearest supermarket so it's a good place to be.
xxx

Teaching

Today I didn't so much teach as get asked lots of questions about weather, I thought I was supposed to be doing a 15 minute talk then a few questions on what weather was like in England but Tiziana thought I was supposed be teaching the whole lesson!! So I don't think it went very well...
On friday I have to get the bus for the airport at 5.40am! :( But another girl gets in at around the same time so she says she will wait for me so we can go into the city together yay! Maybe I won't get lost hehe
xxx

26/27. 9. 11

Yesterday, I sat in one of my host's classes, PE eurgh!! And then went to one of Maurizio's classes to teach english to 18 year olds and then 14 year olds. I had to talk about myself and I told then I loved to make cakes so they demanded my favourite recipe. And today one of the girls in the 18's class came into school today with a cake! It was yummy.
Today, I was in school again but only in two lessons, Maurizio's then Tiziana's class, both young, the students in Tiziana's asked lots and lots of questions, and asked what my surname was and then if I had facebook, I said no, of course! I spent an hour planning something about weather to talk about with Tiziana's class tomorrow and then wandered around the whole school which takes all of about 15 minutes and I mean the whole outside of the school, it's almost on a roundabout.
Flat- I can't have the attic as it's already been rented, but Maurizio's found me somewhere with a couple of students, 20 year old girls, I wanted to live alone! (stamps foot.)
Food- I went out for lunch with Maurizio today and had ham and cheese sandwich and a cappuccino. We then met one of his (our) colleagues Alfonso for coffee, and then they drove me back home and had a "quick" coffee that lasted 25 minutes! They don't rush for anything even lessons! Except when they drive. For lunch yeasterday we had risotto and bread and cheese, peccorino, and the dinner was mozzarella and bread.
Tomorrow I'm in school for an hour and then I don't know but today I made cake and everyone seemed to like it :)

xxx

Yesterday and today...

I spent yesterday sleeping and reading then some of Annamaria's friends came over to practice their english.

Food - We had lots of lunch, tuna pasta then bread and meat and then fruit, all yum of course!
Last night we went out for dinner, with some friends of the family I'm staying with, they decided I was like Mary Poppins when one of the daughters cut her finger and I produced a plaster, and then proceded to sing!! Emmi spent the meal singing beatles songs and other english songs she knew like row row you boat. The restaurant didn't have menus, and was basically a large pretty empty room, I had the tastiest breadsticks ever, ravioli with a mince ragu and then lamb which tasted like it had been coated in layers of salt and cooked for a year :( and salad that  seemed to have been pickled and smothered in oil, but the pasta was really tasty!

This morning we went into the town to see some artists that were painting in the streets, they closed the whole town centre for them, there was a market too but it wasn't very good. Later Annamaria is going to be playing the flute with her band there.

Tomorrow I will be going into the school to meet my classes and see what the school is like, so I'll update you on all that tomorrow...xxx

Food

Yesterday as soon as I got into the house food was thrown at me at speed, I was given pork escalopes and courgettes with mozarella and ham, with bread and was then given fruit and offered coffee, they drink espresso here all the time! And put loads of sugar in! Then I was informed that dinner was served at 8.30, more food! We had bread and potatoes and cooked mozarella and then I was given some ham to try which was okay but tasted really processed...then more fruit and then a chocolate. Then I was shown where all the breakfast stuff was kept and how to make tea, they don't have a kettle everything is made on the hob in special pots. The tea by the way is disgusting but I'm not sure if that is more to do with the pretend milk they have here...it's sweetened! Breakfast is 'biscuits' I'm not sure what they are I wasn't hungry this morning after all the food I ate yesterday!

Avezzano

So I'm in Avezzano, I got in at about 5 yesterday. The family I'm staying with are lovely, the mum is called Emmi or something like that anyway, she teaches dance at the school and sings a lot, the daughter is called Anna-Maria and she's studying to be a dentist, the son is Marcello and he's your average 16 year old boy. Maurizio has this camp slightly scottish accent when he speaks english, he's really lovely and he picked me up from the station and gave me a mini tour of Avezzano, he showed me the school, it's not in mobiles it's in 'containers' they look like the ones you'd put on ships to transport things and the idea of working in one is a little bit scary. I'll be working with him 4 hours a week, also 4 hours with Tiziana and 2 with 2 others of his colleagues. The town is very modern, and surrounded by mountains!, with lots of blocks of flats and the house I'm currently staying in is on a housing estate of 3 story buildings, I have the basement to myself. There's a library in this house, with  a ladder and everything! And lots of other rooms they don't seem to use, there's a laundry room that is bigger than my room at uni!
It's really warm here! I nearly could cope yesterday travelling in jeans and boots. There was this massive storm last night with lots of thunder and lightening!
Talk to you soon...

Accomadation

I got an email from my head of english today, he's found me somewhere to live for 300E a month...it's in an appartment building and I'll be living alone in 'una mansarda' which can be translated as an attic or a penthouse haha should be interesting to see what it's really like!

Six Days!!

I've decided the count down begins today, mainly because I'm at Hannah's and I managed to bribe her into making me a new blog with yummy chocolate mousses.
It's six days until my 6am flight to Rome followed by a train journey then finally a coach to Avezzano...it's going to be long journey!