Tropea!

Ciao tutti!
So after we got back from Sicily, we had a pretty quite week, the usual, teach kids english, have lunch, go to class and then have dinner and just hang out with the whole family till super late at night. wednesday, Michelle, Andrea and Shayna all came over to my house for dinner, which was fun. It was a little difficult at times because me, michelle and andrea are all in second year and can pretty much understand and/or get the gist of what people say in italian, but Shayna is only in the 100 level so we had to translate alot, but it was still alot of fun. Then more of the family came over and we just sat and ate dessert and emilia (andrea's mom) who is hysterical taught us some "bad words" in italian, and we taught some to them in english, quite entertaining, haha. Thursday me, Michelle, and Andrea went to Cosenza to meet the ex of michelle's host sister. We ended up going to a mall, and it felt and smelt like a real mall, it was crazy! i didn't buy anything but if you cared to know, a mall is still a mall no matter what country you are in.
Ok but the best part of this last week had to be our trip to tropea. We left friday after lunch (the higher ups at the local schools through us a lunch party with homemade regional food, it was super nice!) and took multiple trains and got to Tropea around 7. Tropea is this amazing beach town on the west coast of Calabria. Its in all those picturesque post cards you see of the Mediterranean with tourquoise blue water and the cliffs in the background. Anyways before we left we checked the weather report and it said rain and storms all weekend. Well God was definitely on our side this weekend, we got to our hotel (there were 6 in our group) just in time for a glorious sunset over the Mediterranean. Unfortunately my camera decided to die just as we got there, so I'll have to steal some pictures from my friends. oh also our hotel had the most gorgeous higher up view of the whole town. After we took pictures of the sunset we walked down the hill and went to this recommended pizza place which was uber good. we were told that they had the best veggies ever, but I actually perfer the veggies my family makes :-) After dinner we just hung out and chatted at a gelateria, because the town was pretty dead considering its not summer yet. Then we hiked back up the huge hill to our hotel and chilled on our balcony for a bit before hitting the sack. After a night of being eaten alive by bugs we got up and saw blue skies!!!!!!!!!!! we got breakfast and then jumped in the hotel pool for an hour or so before taking the shuttle down to the hotel's private beach. The water was cold, but sooooo clear! and while there were clouds in the sky I swear god had his hand protecting the sun just for us. I got sooooo tan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! heheh we were only there for one day, but a few hours in the hot sun was perfect.
when we got back all the family went over to Michelle's house to watch the European championship soccer game which the team that my whole family hates L'inter was playing in. I was rooting for them to loose (because aldo was) but I seem to have inherited my dad's luck for picking the wrong team. L'inter won 2-0 :-( but after it was crazy because they are an italian team, and its been 45 years since they've won the copa europa the piazza in Rogliano was crazy!!! There were fire works and crazy fans waving flags from cars and every other crazy mob thing you could think of. It was so much fun! even though I was bummed they won. Afterwords we went to the Yogurteria and got frozen yogurt and chilled there before we went home. Overall a pretty good weekend. Now to get back to the loads of homework I have to do. Mi mancate tutti!!!
Baci
~Alyson~
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