settimana scorso ho fatto tante cose

Let me start by giving a shout out to my grandfather because it is veterans day:
Happy Veterans Day!

Last weekend was quite eventful, i got to experience the italian hospital, well not me personally, i'm fine, but my dear roommate had a horrible earache to the point of bleeding so we made our way over to the ospedale alle 21:34 or something like that. Italian emergency rooms aren't that much different from american ones aside from the pizza delivery guy coming in to deliver a pizza to i dont know who, and the amazing espresso machines, and snoring homeless man. it's basically the same thing EXCEPT its free. we ended up spending 5 hours waiting for the nurse to tell lorenza to go to another hospital, then we arrive at the other hospital and they tell her to come back in the morning because there was no ear doctor at that time. Good ol' italy, sending people around the town just to tell them to come back later...anyway, she is better now. i'm glad. you're glad. we're all glad.

Next, my trip to Genova! home town of my great grandfather Joe! wow! I started my journey by waking up at 6am and headed over to the train station. the air smells lovely in the morning by the way, i always forget how nice it is to greet the morning so early.

here is a picture of me sitting on the train ready to embrace a 2 and half hour train ride. the ride was mostly beautiful, some parts rainy, some parts foggy, some parts sunny. and i got to ride the train along the Mediterranean sea and see the waves. it was amazing and so long since i saw a huge body of water in that fashion. so i arrive and i meet my new friend Davide who was so nice to invite me to see Genova because he grew up in a town near by and knows the town pretty well. so we first got in the car and began to drive to Zoagli which is a town before genova, and we get out to take pictures of the roaring sea:


roaaaaaaaarrrr! yeah! It was like disney land splashmountain but better. so after that we ventured on to genova. we started off with a nice piece of foccacia, which is what genova is famous for and there's not arguing why, because it was amazing!
mmmmmmmmmmm.....i ended up buying 2 more kilos of this stuff before going on the train ride back home. so the rest of the day was amazing, i got to go through the small streets of genova, there are many small streets the are strewn throughout the city. and there are also a lot of hills. davide took me up this treacherous hill only to be greeted by this:
and this

we were a bit high off the ground, but amazing! so then we continued even more on, and i got to touch the sea and it was great. i already want to go back!
lets not forget that i got to see christopher columbus' house. what a small house it was...


lastly, I finally started courses, and they have been going great. I might have started out a little insecure and timid about the whole thing but really its not that bad and it is actually a lot of fun. the other students in the class are really helpful to me. they also think its really cool that i'm from california. they're like "WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA CALIFORNIA!" and im like "yeah.....you're italian!" but not really i dont say that. I already have some homework and i'm excited to do it! its been so long! alrighty, i must be going.