cooking a kitchen in my chicken

hello all and welcome,

Happy Halloween!!!!!!!!!!! Don't really have plans for this special day. :(

Sundays in Milan are rainy days. it's true. every sunday for the past month has been rainy. interesting, eh?

Tuesday for sure and finally I will begin courses. Finally, the studying part of studying abroad.

The past week has been quite nice. Dinners with friends and enjoying the fall leaves. I enjoyed some Bolognese cuisine the other night:




It was delicious. and yesterday Lorenza's Parents came to town. it was fun to meet them and we ate fish and potatoes.

I'm foreign.

I want to marry music

it's just that great.
yesterday was my friend's birthday. we went out for pizza and i told her happy birthday in french. you wont believe my french is worse than my italian. atleast in italian the letters make sense...anyway, we went to this concert and got to enjoy music by pianista Francesco Di Gregorio. It was beautiful. he played pieces by Robert Schumann, Fryderyk Chopin, and Franz Liszt. There were many people there my grandpa's age and people yelled "BRAVO!" when he was done. it was just ammaziazione and nice to be in a place with a stage and a performer and music.

humphrey bogart e barack obama

so i'm just sitting here thinking about this summer. At the beginning of this summer i packed up all my stuff from my apartment in Daly City and headed for Fresno to search for a job that i was only going to hold for 3 months while holding the possibility in my hands that i might not even go to italy. Now that i think about that person i want to laugh just because i know how it works around here. I want to go and calm my self down and say "shut up, you're going." i'm also thinking about how quickly life changes like seriously wow. 3 months ago I was seating the lovely citizens of Fresno, california. Now i'm sitting in an apartment in Milan, Italy next to a smelly cat. and when i walk out side the sounds are different, the people are different, the rain is different, the smells. mmm. the smells.
It's design weekend in Milan, I decided to go check it out. It turns out the design museum was free admission. i looked around at the exhibits. I didn't take any pictures inside because i wasn't sure if it was aloud. but i did take some outside. and also there were over 2000 posters outside near the duomo about 7 different causes, (the mafia, HIV, whale extinction, Tiger extinction, Poverty, Health Care and the other one i forgot). it was cool. powerful. posters with a cause. inspiring.

Napoli sounds so appealing

oh how the week flew by, it's already thursday. Let's see...I finally experienced apertivo. Two girls, one from san francisco state, who is also french, and a girl form mexico, and i ventured out into the wild, we walked around the castle, not inside, to the park and spent some time there and listened to the pigeons and other people talk to the pigeons. I was hungry so we all decided to go to a restaraunt for apertivo or "happy hour". this is the most brilliant concept ever. buy a drink and eat whatever you want. RIGHT?! right, yeah i ate too much. when i got home i couldn't stop drinking water.
This week i went to the library and signed up for a library card. I got quite a random selection of books, a scary horror story for young kids, an adventure across the seas with jack black! i simpsons comic book, and T.S. elliot book of poems about cats, that one was for lorenza.
yesterday i had a headache all day and today im trying to recover. it is still there a little bit. good thing i dont have school.

When the sun shines we'll shine together

My first week of presentations was not bad. I'm looking to start school November 2nd (my sisters birthday)since I have not yet recieved my schedule. So here is a whole other month of...possibilities and improving my italian. haha. Tuesdays and Saturdays in october are golden days in milan. museums free on tuesdays, and when couples travel, the woman's free on saturdays. I need to get on that.
Also this week I went to the polizia to finish my permit process, no it wasn't over, THAT day was fun let me tell you. First I went on the bus going the wrong way, then the street turned so I got lost and it took me 3 people to find the office, then i ended up waiting an hour for them to call my name, took my fingerprints and waited again for another 2 hours to get more detailed fingerprints.
I got a codice fiscale, which was fun to figure out how to get, it's like a ssn. I couldn't find the place and the google street view showed me a bank. I go there and i notice the address is correct so i go in the bank, grab a number and wait for a consultant. I go and sit down with her and tell her I need a codice fiscale and she laughs a little at me and says "quest e' una banca", this is a bank, and i'm just thinking..........yes............yes it is........so she shows me to the correct facility and i wait there for a bit and soon enough i have a codice fiscale! all set.

The search for the sacred grail

it is now that time I report of the interactions with NABA (Nuova Academica Belle Arti, the school i attend in milan, the city that i live in in italy, the country i live in on this earth, the planet that inhabits life....). so, school has begun and i haven't got my schedule yet but that is okay because that is just how the system works apparently. I came to a few realizations today. First, was to let go and just go with it, not because i don't have a choice, but because this is how it work. Thinking about this and writing it down has made me come to another realization. This has been the game since i even decided to study abroad. walking into a dark cave and not knowing what lies ahead but thank God some tools drop down from the sky and find the holy grail. Anyway... back to school. so it was raining quite hard today, and I wasn't sure which presentation i should attend because i haven't go my classes yet so i planned to attend both. The first one i believe was more on my level but the second one was quite entertaining. I must say though, I'm glad i have chosen a major in visual communications because without the visual aides i think i would have had a difficult time following. This is when my other realization came, I'm going to have to work twice as hard, to grasp an understanding of what is being said plus produce work and learn new skills and techniques and exams! wow. haha. anyway. i'm in for a ride. and inspired to create. i can't wait!
cultural awkward moment: after the presentation everyone rushes to the back table to sign the attendance sheet pushing and grabbing and i just stand there waiting. but i'm not even on the sheet, that is probably because i'm a foreign student i guess. i think. yeah.

It's been a while?

yesterday, i went to school to organize classes for my schedule. School starts on monday. I haven't recieved my exact schedule yet but i'm guessing it has to be sooon............
I went to IKEA the other day. It was quiet a journey to get there. FIRST we had a lot of time to kill before the bus came. so we wandered around the center and ate many pizzas and a huge fried ball stuffed with rice, cheese, and ham. yes. yes. yes. i forgot what it was called. anyway we got lost some how and then found our way back to the center and headed on towards the IKEA bus stop. we JUST missed it. so we waited another hour. then finally, it came and all my wildest dreams were about to come true...not really, i just had never been to IKEA and was curious as to what the big deal was. WELL! it's pretty magical, i dont think i'll be going back anytime soon. I got the most amazing moka (italian coffee maker) and a cork screw. beautiful. Go to IKEA: check.
following that lovely extravaganza ...I went to the bible study with Giuseppe and this time there were more people. nice. people. we read and discussed Acts 27 but i caught bits of it. oh dear. but anyway afterward i met this girl that giuseppe was telling me to get to know, she is from the east coast of the US. and what she told me was everything i ever dreamed about. hahaha. their ministry is basically hanging out with people and getting to know them. no strings attached. this gets more exciting all the time.