Q & A #3

I did a Q&A just a week ago, but I've received some questions over the past few posts in the comments, so I wanted to take tonight's blog post to cover them. Plus it is getting harder and harder to come up with topics for these posts, though I have a few good ones still up my sleeve...

First...How was has my French/Italian been lately?

Good Question, I meant to touch upon this in the Nice posts but somehow forgot to. My Italian has been getting progressively better, (I think/hope, ask my Italian teacher).

French this weekend was interesting. I understood most of it, just like Paris, but this time I made more of an effort to speak French and not Italian. I did much better than in Paris with speaking French, but this led to problems when I got back to Italy again, saing Merci instead of Grazie and oui instead of si. It took me another 24 hours or so to get back into Italian. French speaking though, as I said, was much much better than in Paris. I just had to think about what I wanted to say. French vocab always hurts/helps me in Italian. Sometimes words are very similar, so it is easy to come up with the Italian knowing the French, but other times I flat out say the French word thinking it is Italian which doesn't work so well.

Second question...This has been asked by a couple people...Where else am I traveling?

Good question, again. This weekend I have no travel plans, My cousin Jamie and her friend will be visiting for the weekend/most of the week next week, so we will be in Rome for this weekend. Maybe a day trip somewhere? I haven't really planned anything out yet for that.

The next weekend (ahem) is my birthday, and Becky and her friends will be visiting Rome. On the 12th I will be going to Siena for a day trip with my program.

The next weekend, the 19th, I plan on meeting Becky and her friends in Naples, a finale to all of the places I've been in Italy. We may also do Capri that weekend.

The weekend after I have exams, and my cousin Jen and her boyfriend Allen will be visiting Rome, but regardless, two finals on the weekend, so no traveling.

On March 31st, my program ends. I will be heading to London to visit Becky. From there we plan on going to do a bit of traveling until Monday, and then I will continue to travel with St. Mary's people and Villanova people that are still around Europe for that first week in April Tentatively we are thinking Prague, Amsterdam, Vienna with Becky, but that may be too much to do in that time frame. I am going to fit as much traveling in as I possibly can in a week. I'll return to London on Wednesday or Thursday, and I head back to Rome on Saturday, April 10th, and fly back to New Jersey on April 11th. I would very much like to go to Ireland, so that may be good to do Wednesday/Thursday with Becky, or earlier in the week depending on other people's schedules.

I still feel like there is still so much to do, and I only have 27 days left in Rome, then another 10 days or so of traveling in Europe. Lots to do, lots to do.

And for the comment about the boats, I saw several boston whalers in the port in Nice, so I guess their an international phenomenon, and some of the yachts even had whalers onboard, not to mention jetskis.

That's all for now,