SO, SO, SO much has happened since I last wrote! We got Monday, Tueday and Wednesday off for Saint Valentino (aka we got a vacation for the nation day of love …and for Mardi Gras). I had the cutest Valentines Day ever! I went to this symphony concert with all the music of the greatest composers. But, it wasn’t just plain boring dull symphony music it had a bass to it and drums to it, too. These violinists were SO good. Everyone in the orchestra was really good! Somebody said this orchestra that played was world renown and award winning. There was a fountain show to go along with it also. It was a giant fountain! It was doing all these awesome designs and there were lights inside the fountain that changed along with the water. Then for the finale there was fire in the fountain, it was so awesome! People with masks on on stiltz came out too and there were fireworks and everything! All I had was my clutch purse with me so I didn’t bring my camera.. I was so mad! They were SO good. There really is only two kinds of music Italians like. A type of jazz/blues music and the hip hop/house music. Well.. that’s how it is in the south anyways.
The next day I woke up really early and took the train to Caserta so stay the night with my friend Zoe, from Seattle and my friend Imogen, from New Zealand. Then I met their friend Stephan, from Australia. Zoe mom sent her a bunch of peanut butter so I had the first peanut butter and jelly sandwich ever in 6 months it was soooo good! Then we all pigged out American style and ate brownies and watched Dane Cook on the computer. Later that night we all got ready to go out for Carnevale! (Mardi Gras) Carnevale was EPIC. We went to a disco called Prince. Carnevale here is pretty much like our Halloween minus the trick-or-treating…the girls where skimpy costumes and everyone wears masks. The disco was loads of fun, plus there was free champagne all night. I spent the night there and then the next day I came back to Salerno.
Yesterday, I spent the entire day in Napoli! You don’t really here so much about Napoli in America.. but it’s actually one of the most famous cities in Italia. It was so amazing. We went to two museums. One was modern art and the other one was my favourite!
It was called ‘Madre,’ http://www.museomadre.it/index.cfm
Then we walked around a lot and went window shopping and had the BEST food ever. I bet you didn’t know that the pizza was originally created in Napoli did you? They have the BEST pizza in the world. No joke. It is soo fantastic! Although, I didn’t have the pizza when I was there we had a pasta that originated from Napoli. But I am going there again sometime this month and I WILL have the pizza! Napoli is so much bigger than Salerno it was so great. They have a part of Napoli that is more upper class with all the really nice stores, and a part with the thrift stores and the less expensive stores. It was really as dirty as I thought it was going to be though, because normally big cities are really dirty.. like New York. But Napoli was so nice! The up loader isn’t currently working on my computer though, so I’ll have to do that later!
It is OFFICIAL! I am going to Milan for my exchange week I am soooo excited! In the actual city too! Woooohoo!
I am CONVINCED I live in London. Five minutes ago it was bright and sunny. I just said out loud.. “who’s blocking my light?!” and I looked out the window and the sky was this eerie blackish grey colour. I pretty positive I say this in every blog I write, oh well. I guess since I wrote all of that it didn’t really seem like all that much happened? ..whatever lol. There was also this huge landslide in Italia not to long ago.
Random Facts:
o Its unsanitary to walk around the house without socks on. You must always have slippers/socks on
o People with the fourth class (juniors) or lower generally don’t stay out as late and go out as much because they have to focus on school
o There is no such thing as privacy here
o Nothing is a secret here. Nothing.
o You MUST dry your hair with a blow dryer. MUST. Even even your inside your own house. They ‘say’ you will have neck and back problems if you don’t. they are serious about it too.. its one of those things that nobody dares to do.
o Italians are VERY superstitious. Very. They have a stupid little fear for things we consider normal in America.
o It is social suicide if your nail polish is chipped or you have a little hint of dirt under you finger nails.
o Most people only take showers twice a week here.
o Italians are VERY conservative when it comes to food and water.
o Its are also very, very green. Everyone here recycles.. literally everyone. If you don’t recycle right you get fined.
o They generally always buy products that are biodegradable and eco friendly and they always buy organic fruits and veggies.
o Everyone smoke here. Its just part of there culture. People from about 14 and up smoke.
o The real drinking/smoking age is ’18.’ But nobody respects this rule and police don’t really care about it anyways. You can walk into a bar and order however many drinks you want with a police officer sitting next to you.
o No one likes fake blonde hair here. They all think its really ugly. However if your naturally a blonde (which in the south of Italia is virtually no one) everyone thinks you’re a sex bomb.
o Everyone thinks people in America are al blondes.
o Girls talk about periods in front of guys and they don’t even care. And girl are ABSOLUTELY scared to death of tampons. No one uses them here.
o No dryers.
o It’s a perfectly normal excuse for school and work to be late or miss simply because you woke up late.
o People here are really bad at cheating in school.
o They have huge wardrobes instead of closets.
o The image people have of America: American Pie.
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