Another one bites the dust

Here we are again, another chance at a good year.

I hope you all seize your chance, me for one, I’m hoping to get my degree, land me a job and roadtrip the USA in summer. Then I want to start saving up to buy a house once the bells ring for another new year.

Gaby doesn’t quite agree to that yet, but we’ll get there. And from then on it’s ‘bye bye student life, hello working class’

Anyway, it’s been much fun being here doing my thing but I’d like to return to Rome, I really miss the LIS classes and missed my first one today, I hope I don’t get behind on them..

It would really make my year if I get my paper done in time…

Ok, thanks for your time byebye

Piccies

Well, I’ve been rambling about my sign language classes a lot, and we finally got some pictures in, so behold:

So, the third one from the right is the teacher. She is awesome.

And these are two other girls in my class who didn’t make it back from lunch in time to join in the group pic..

WoW it’s been ages

Hm.. I just can’t be bothered to update this thing much… Such a shame..
Moments often pass where I think “This would be a wonderful addition to my blog..” but then they slowly fade from memory, and I start asking Gaby things like “Do you remember that one time when this thing happened and I said I should put it in my blog???” she goes.. *sigh* and I let it die off in a dark corner of my wardrobe.

Quick update and on to more serious stuff, or well, other stuff..

Uhmm lots went by, Eric and Idzi had a brief stop-over, about 5 days, well 7 in the end, because public transportation was striking and Ryanair crashed some stuff…

My parents came by as well, onnnn Thursday, I think, we had fun, but on Saturday my mom fell down and had a lot of trouble walking for the remainder of the trip..

Uhm…. oh I made a website proposal for the Roberto Wirth Fund, if it gets accepted I’ll have a job here for the last months of my stay, pretty good, hope it works out.

Sign language classes are still awesome.

We ate some very good mozzarella today.

Almost Sinterklaas, we’re celebrating with Inge, Vasiliki (?), Kate, Gaby and uhmmm me.

What else…. Ooh, Kate got kicked out of her apartment because she couldn’t pay rent because she hadn’t been paid in forever, so last night she stayed at the Hassler hotel, which is Roberto Wirth’s hotel, and tonight she’s secretely sleeping in her own house and tomorrow she will be bunking with us.

I’ve been playing World of Warcraft, when the expansion hit the stores I vowed not to get it that same day, but voilà, we went out into the rain to find an Italian game store, the guy went “Did you pre-order?” I raised my eyebrows and shook my head.. “Well…. let’s see if I can find one…” And behold! We got us the last copy

I bought a leather jacket, Gaby bought a fake fur coat… It was all my dad’s fault…

She now wants to give it to homeless people.

Which brings me to the heartwarming fact that the other day, there were people at the Tiburtina train station, close to our house, feeding the homeless. A big pan of Spaghetti, big doesn’t quite cover it though… Warm drinks and… new clothes! They all looked like unwashed rich people!

Also, every morning, before I start work, I go to this bar. We call it “the corner bar” due to lack of creativity… So every morning I go there, have a cappucino, sometimes a cornetto (a croissant, but sweet… Some have glazing which is called “semplice” and some have stuffing… I usually have one with marmalata, which is jam really…). I sit outside and watch people rushing around me. Then every morning, this lady comes by and asks for a cigarette, so, a couple of days ago, I figured I’d buy her a pack of cigarettes! Why not?? She was always a nice beggar and never rude or pushy… So I bought her the pack and a lighter, but for the life of me I haven’t been able to find her anywhere…

Errm, let me think…

Oh, today I got scolded during sign language class… I understood nothing of the story my teacher was telling because I couldn’t get some of the Italian words… So she told me “I should practice my Italian more.” She’s right of course, so when I returned to the office, I wrote her a lengthy e-mail in Italian, telling her that she was right. I hope she thinks that’s enough practice.

Secret Santa next week, bit of trouble with that, I’m supposed to write a poem and buy a gift, but… omg… a gift up to €3…. So yeah, dunno what to buy, but we’ll see…

There’s probably a lot more to tell, but I’ll leave you with this:

We bought tickets to return to Holland for the holidays, don’t call us we’ll call you, no not really, please do call, I feel so lonely! We’ll be flying in on the… 18th, Eindhvoen Airport, be there or be square, please bring a car so we won’t have to do the train ride.

Byebye

Of housemates and stuff..

So, it’s been ages since I updated this.

Here’s the deal, I’ve been having a ball doing my sign language class!

My Sign Language Class

So that’s great, I’ve been learning common language like ‘How are you?’ and animals and sports and all types of words. It’s good fun, the teacher is great and the group is enthusiastic.

Then, we’ve also had some more time to get to know our flat/house/room – mates, which is cool, except for them moving out November 1st… Anyway, here they are:

And then uhm all of us together, of course.

Do the monkey with me!

Johny Bravo theme

So, the other day there was this man in the metro.

He had a bag in a bag, he took the bag out of his bag and put it into his bag.

I had to share that.

Yesterday I had my first ever lesson in sign language. It was the better part of awesome.

I learned how to ask someone for their name or someone elses name, als I was granted my own sign, everyone in the class got their own sign, somewhat like a name, but based on a physical mark or some had their last names translated into something. It was good fun.

I hope I get to do more lessons.