Simone Dice

Today was the second market day that we have been here for. Giordanna was very nice to us and let us out of Italian to go shopping! I walked around with Charlotte for the whole morning looking at all the carts. I bought some pretty cute knock-off Birkenstock sandals. I saw them at one stand where they were 50 Euro, went around the corner and got them for 25. Niiiice! During lunch I decided to get a suitcase to bring back souvenirs. Although I have room in my suitcase, it’s WAY too close to the weight limit. It gives me a little more space to pack breakables, too, which is nice. Not a bad little suitcase for 50 Euro. For lunch, I stopped at the porchetta truck to get a panino. Mmmmm. After lunch, I got a pear as a snack at the produce shop right down the block from our school building and it was seriously the most delicious pear I have ever tasted! Perfectly ripe and juicy. In Italian in the afternoon we learned the names of body parts, so we played Simone Dice (Simon Says). It was pretty awesome. It reminded me of high school French. That afternoon, we were scheduled to go to impromptu interviews with La Foccacia (NOT La Foccaciaria…I have been calling it the wrong thing this whole time), but we found out that the shop owner, Marina, was not willing to talk to anyone for interviews. Yikes! So we brainstormed ideas for a new story and it’s about fashion now. Crazy as it was changing, it’s all good. The fashion story actually seems really solid. Unfortunately we didn’t end up doing any interviews today, but we should be fine. After that drama, Victoria, Kevin, and I went to Casa Lapis to make dinner. Charlotte came back from an interview after we ate and we all hung out. We were thinking about getting gelato, but never really made it. We spent a long time just talking and being ridiculous. It was fun!