Buona Pasqua!

Buona Pasqua tutti!
Happy Easter everyone. (I know its a few days late)
So for easter I did go to the Vatican, unfortunately it was raining super hard! So since everyone had thier umbrellas it made it really hard to see everything, I could see the pope much better on friday. ah oh well it was still really cool. We missed the mass, but we got there for the easter blessing, which a lot of it i could actually understand, which was impressive. By the end though we were very cold and wet so we basically slept and staying inside and cooked for the rest of the day. But one of my bucket list things is checked off, Easter at the Vatican. Oh and I finally got gelato!!! (I gave up ice cream for lent) and it was soooo good!!!! Definitely worth the wait. :-)
Yesterday (Monday) is a national holiday for italy called Pasquetta (little easter), so we didn't have school or anything which was nice. One of the guys on our program CJ had some of his friend's from the other side of italy come visiting so we hung out with them most of the day. It was super fun! because we knew enough italian and they knew enough english where we could joke around with them and everything. They even ended up editing my italian summary of this movie we watched. They laughed at my italian mostly because I don't like using pronouns so I just repeat people's names alot. haha but they were very helpful. Later last night we all ended up at a Irish pub where they had BASEBALL on!!!!!!!!!!!!! Unfortunately it was the Cubbies game, the giants game was on later (like 1 am) which was too bad, since the Cubs game was kind of depressing. but oh well, they italian guys definitely didn't understand how baseball worked, and they though it was super boring, haha oh well I find soccer boring so to each his own i guess. But i did get very excited when I was able to watch base ball. (Blame my mother for my obsession with baseball) haha I am such an american when it comes to my baseball. GO GIANTS!!!!
Sorry about my baseball rant, anyways so this morning was our first day of our internships. I am one week at this market thingy and then 2 weeks at the museum and then 1 more week back at the market. But the market was more like a museum (i think) right next to Il foro di Augosto. (a forum with alot of old roman relics) today we just got a tour and lecture in italian about il foro and all the old roman pieces. it was cool, a little boring and tiring but cool. So now we still have 3 hours of class (after 3 hours of internship this morning) So i will be a very tired little monkey, but I am still having a blast.
Ci vediamo!
~Alyson~
:-)