ready, set, here we go.

Today we learned how to order food in italian.

Now, reread that sentence, placing the emphasis on the word "today."

I'm trying not to count how many days I have left here because it's making me super sad, but, domenico, this wouldve been very beneficial at the beginning of the school year.

speaking of domenico, he asked me today if i was going to continue to study italian. my heart lurched. why do i have an innate desire to please every professor Ive ever had? i hate disappointing people. mostly i just wish i could go to school and do my thang. actually that's really not true, i like when professors are proud of me. haha. i just said "i don't know. i am studying so many things. we'll see." i felt bad. trust me, domenico, id love to continue to learn italian! id love to do a lot of things though..

tonight is going to be an all-nighter... or a whenever i give up-er. ive been working on my money and banking problem set all week and it's eating me for breakfast. i spent five hours on one problem and i still dont think i have it. the TA taught that chapter last week and doesnt speak any english, and for the first time, surprisingly, the textbook is completely useless. there are five of these... and theyre not a huge part of our grade, but it really scares me about the final. im going to have to talk to prof gallo about this junk because i cant figure out how to learn it. we're legitimately getting into the banking part of this course (whaaa?), and it's kinda a foreign language to me...but this one isn't similar to spanish.

as for that, finishing up 1984, which im giving a presentation on tomorrow. it is amazing how memorized i have it. i mean we did spend almost an entire semester on it with Carstenn (i wonder how he's doing...). but it's just insane. like i cant tell you prior, but once i read it, i remember it instantly, and not only do i remember it instantly, i remember it by word. by quote "where extinct animals walked." "we are the dead."...not to mention the language of Newspeak.

other than that, doing italian assignments like crazy, but i will tell you, i am excellent at memorizing things. I wrote out what i wanted to say in my writing composition test today. ten minutes before class I read it consistently until class started. I think i got it word for word on the exam. pretty impressive: up next i have to write domenico a letter from the future and make a presentation about anything i want (i think im going to do what im excited about going home for).

Becca! work!

ciao

ps kyle and i talked for one whole hour yesterday and it was pretty glorious. ha.