OK

I would just like to tell people I am not bored and I do explore...I just use the expression BORED as a menas of just describbing stuff...I cna't spell or even think at cause i have jsut spent the day in a seriously MAD like *twitch* city called bologna where i met some GERMAN and AUSTRIAN PPLE wooo and a random man how i think I sad i was pretty but i got freaked out and ran away...more latter after my return TOMORROW to the city of *TWITCH* lol it's cool really pretty hehehehehehehe but HUGE...and i have small feet and HATE PPLE WITH BIKES>>>ah piza crust in eye <<< lol

ok so yes brilliant...stil can't speak italian...but hey who needs to when u just point to stuff...though I try...ok sleep now

Arrrivederci ( i don't think it has 4 'r's')

Allora

The one word that is annoying me. It means "then" Itlaians say it ALOT and who thought a word could annoy you..It can.

25th- Friday, well I just kinda cruised around didn't do much except chill out and vedge. Recovery of the MASSIVE ITALIAN OVERLOAD OF ThE RIMNI MEETING!!!

26th- Saturday I wondered around the streets of Cesena and didn't really find anything new I just saw alot of old stuff from the other side of the street. I did how ever find a tunnel...though I didn't want to cross the road being a massive scary round-about...and I still haven't managed to get the hang of crossing roads here. Everything is back to front. LOL So I just kinda wondered around just walking...places, wasn't really sure of where I was going or what I was doing but I went for a walk.





These are some random pictures that I took from around the place of where I explored. I don't actually know where it is but still it loks cool so that is always a bonus! There is a random church thing on the hill I am not sure if you can see it but it looks cool.

I went to Ipercoop which was cool was pretty close to trying the fruit weighing thing but then chickened out at the last minuti and decided to buy the packaged grapes, and pre labeled watermelon. LOL but hey I bought fruit...and later on I went back and bought a learning English book LOL it's got Tweety teaching Italian kids English...but I am Leanring Itlaian. It was a suggestion by Francesca Sylivia's Sister who can speak English. Her, Sylivia and Marlo were awake from their Dancing extravaganza the night before. LOL Francesca was hung over and apperantly sick, and Syilvia was just bleh...Marlo...so Loud and so HAPPY and manly. He could resemble htose Itlian guys you see on the tv. The tanned dark hair...etc he just oozes Italian-ness. I chatted to Sylivia, Francesa and Marlo being social and lacking alot of Italian but Francesa was there to help me so that was cool. That was my day.

27th-Sunday slept and well watched some tragic tv. I don't get why Italian tv has so many Pubblica...infomercial things...it's annoying. Alot of them are those weight loss things and the exercise machines. You see the cool brrom things or the static powered dust collecters..they are cool. Other then that tv is pretty much the same. But obviously with the language difference and the strange forgien shows fomr places such as Germany and Australia.

28th-Monday I woke up and unlocked the door using Sylivia's keys, which were in the door. I left them in the door...this is significant later. OK I then went to the International relations office. I just kinda walked in and asked "Parle Inglesi" and a lady answered I was like OH YEAH. She was the lady I had e-mailed before apparently I dunno, but anyway she was helpful and gave me a bag of Gadgets...lol her word! LOL She told me to go to the Achitecture faculty and talk to the Professor there who welcomes the International students. So I went to the architecture faculty. I so need to learn Italian...and soon to! LOL i found out that I start Uni on the 25th of September...Yeah and my Italian Language course thing starts on the 18th of september..I was like oh yeah... the lady said that I could probley do any course I wanted to...so thats like ehhhh Here I come!! LOL wicked...lol But the Professor dude that I needed to tlak to wasn't there so I have to go back next week and find out what the deal is...with me and the courses avalible to me.

So I had kinda finished my mission, and went home. this is the SO CRAP BIT!!! I put my key in the door and...it wouldn't go in! I was like NO WAY...then I realised...I had left Syilvia's KEYS in the HOLE...thus not letting me get in...HOW STUPID WAS THAT...LEAVING SYLVIAS KEYS IN THE HOLE...I KNOW!!! LOL so I rang the doorbell...but nothing.

So I went and got some food...a bonosomething...it's a donut thing with custard in the middle they are really nice so thats always good. Then I went to the park thing. I thought I will just wait untill she goes to work and then my keys would work. I sat at this park thing it's really nice and has like a pond...water feature in the Middle which is well cooling. I walked aorund Cesena and went over the bridge...there is a brigdge...not so flash or anything just a bridge. And went to the other side of Cesena...I ended up at the bottom of the city and was like hey I know where I am. I had a moment of Forgieners Syndrome...when I didn't understan what the lady was saying. The man pointed to something but nothing didn't understand a word...I just took my drinks and walked out. I walked fast...and went home.

So I was walking around for about an hour or two or something then was like eh she must be at work or out by now...BUT NOOooooo so I thought ok, it can't be too hard to get her keys out of the hole...pfft...what ever. I used two bobbey pins, slightly bent a key, tried using a Swiss army knife...nothing. I really Don't know how they do it...but I do know I will never be a McGyver!!! LOL I rang the door bell and then Marlo Sylivia's boyfriend answered the door. LOL I was like they key...he didn't understand it's all good. That was my day.


29th- Tuesday woke up...to children and vespers...still yet to ride one! LOL and went to get breakky. Sylivia was on the couch and was awake so I was like hey. She then went to bed to sleep. I ate my cereal...So good. Then have just been chilling out here. LOL wathcing bad television!!

AHAHAHAHAHA There is Mc Louds daughters on the tv atm LOL thats great. I am sitting in the living room/kitchen and I am typing this up. It's weird now I feel kinda in the middle of two worlds LOL...Sylivia's boyfriend Marlo said that I can type fast. I can't type fast pfft...what ever...wow this is the first ime I have ever seen Mcloeods daughters...so a first for everything...I just kinda can't understand it...so thats like eh. I don't actually know what is going on..it's weird. They are having a bbq...It must be a late episode cause the girl from Always Greener is on. Just a guess...Now that was a great show! I think my housemates are watching this cause I am from Australia...I think that is the Gardening guy??? No way this show has some radnom people in it... I think there might be a storm brewing...or it's just planes...I wonder if they think that all Australians are like this...That would be funny...I for one can't ride a horse, well actually I can get on it and make it go...I guess thats all you need hey LOL. Someone is trying to kill someone, now the show is over...The name of this show Is "When Husbands cheat"...well it was a movie and It is bad...

LOL there was the Saddel Club on tv as well...damn them who let the Saddel Club Invade already tragic Italian Television..NOOOOOO Even worse is Justin Timberlake...eh...for some strange reason my cool English->Italian Translating thing isn't working...I am so not happy at the moment...but that is ok. I just have to use the great knowledge of my italian to convey what I don't know...to the man on the couch...Marlo...Sylivia's boyfriend.

LOL I want to go to San Marino...which is about 40mins away from where I live so I have to figure out how I can get there. It will be cool to go there...I dunno.

LOL ther was an add for dye's LOL and kinda a political satire in response to well the Black African's. The lady put her...well "MAN" into the washing machine with the dye and out came a tonned Black African..She was diggin that...LOL made me laugh!

Anyway I am goign to Dance off to Micheal JAckson and make some food...PASTA yet again...kinda glad I decided to lay off pasta this year at uni..LOL

Arrivederci

Ciao

The thing I say too much. Oh and "si"
LOL just randomy a neighbour in the block of flats which I live in rang the door bell. I was like AHhhh what do I do, thinking it was Andrea-land lord- or Sylivia or that Jessepie dude. But nope a random neighbour, who could speak English because other then Ciao, all that I said to him was in English. He managed to respond and understand me. LOL all he wanted was some bread. LOL I couldn't stop laughing cause it was funny. LOL so random but funny!!

23rd-Wednesday, I went to the Cesena City Council equivilant, and waited for ages for the stupid Premesso Di Soggiorno thing, and I got there LOL and they were at number 9...I got a ticket it said 229...I was like WHAT! I presummed it was just 29...cause the number doobey could only show 2 numbers. So I sat there and waited for ages. I had a conversation...well it could be classified as CHIT CHAT, with the lady next to me. She asked what number I was? and then where I came from. It took me a while to understand what she was saying. She spoke very softly.

While I was waiting I was ammused by some strange things. For one where in the world would you see a man dressed as fashionably and as similar to a girl?? Italy. There was a guy who had MASSIVE bug eye sunnies...Dior...which were PINK, strange Jeans, I think orange kinda scary shoes...you know the metro ones that look kinda like rock climbing shoes...and a white long sleeved top. LOL the two men I was sitting next to made fun of the guy but obviously knew him cause they proded his "PECKS" kinda saying they are really more like boobs LOL!!! Then a mother with a pram wearing UBER stelleto's...Kringe. But the one thing that made me go...WHAT?? Was a lady who had kinda long toenails, manicured, and decorated...like all painted and fancy. I was like what? Who? Why? HOW? Then to top it off I was nice to a lady who had the number 27...and only 29 and 30 or something were waiting. She asked if she could go infront of me, cause she missed her turn. I was like yeah...si...I totally didn't have much of a clue about what was going on. All I wanted to do was get in there and finish it and then go to the cool market. So in the end I managed to get my appointment thing to go to the police station. The really dumb thing is that...It's for NEXT YEAR!! I was like WHAT?! Next year January or March I don't know how the Italians do their date things. I was like ok...that doesn't make any sense. I knew Italians did stuff slowly but ...I have like 6-8 months to wait...I was like what the... not much point me getting one considering I wouldn't be in Italy for much longer.

So after this great and marvellous revelation thing. I walked aorund through the cool MERCATO-Market and was like hey wow lots of cool things. Everything from undies to shampoo, to lollies, to cutlery. It's great like a massive department store for random stuff. LOL I bought a fake Louis Vutton Wallet and a wicked Bag-not Louis Vutton...but there will be another day for THAT! LOL nah it was cool. I spent 10 Euros' roughly $17. So I was kinda like hey wow. The bag I bought would have been in Austalia lke $20-$30. So I was like eh not bad. LOL it's got heaps more stuff then Salamanca and goes down like 1 and a half Streets. I was like oooo AHHhhhh LOL and you go to tone of the random cafe things for food...unless you want lollies.


Been cooking Pasta for myself and it's good. LOL I haven't bought much in the way of other foods cause well I haven't needed to so all good. I may never be as good as cooking pasta like the Italians but maybe one day.

I watched this little girl learn how to ride a bike LOL It was kinda funny and scary at times. She had so much attitude and her dad would kinda hold onto the back of the bike and tell her what to do. I never realised how hard it can be to ride a bike. She was presistant though even having run into the side of a concrete kinda grass box thing and hit the corner of it with her leg. I was like AHhhh OWW!!! I wonder if I was like that when I was learning how to ride a bike??

Ah I was watching the Italian Sports News and was in ore of the goals scored by various people. Some of them you just have to go...DAMN...there is no way of descirbing them but these guys have luck and talent on their sides thats for sure. Also the Italians LOL won't stop sharing the fact that they are the CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD in Football lol they keep telling me.


24th-Well I was invited by Andrea the land lord...to come with him to this MASSIVE I can't stress the MASSIVENESS OF THIS Meeting thing. It is called the Rimini Meeting. Rimini being where it is held- Small town like 30km away from Cesena. It is held in what look to be massive AEROPLANE hangers LOL very close to them in size and they are filled with people and various groups etc that are from various parts of Italy. They have like a Sports section, Childrens Section, Random stuff all the way though it. I went to this exhibition of the Galaxy and the Universe. It was pretty cool. Andrea met his friends...wouldn't have a clue what their names where...both of which guys LOL and made me laugh. The 3 of them would be like your typical 30yr old not married live with my mother kinda guys. Sweet as but so weird. LOL so they found an English Interpreatator for me which was nice. and He showed me around this Galaxy exhibition. LOL it was funny cause one of the friends was LISTENING intently to what the interpretator was saying lol even though I doubt he could understand. LOL it was funny. I was trying not to laugh. I did how ever learn ALOT about the universe and stuff...it was kinda interesting...most of the stuff I learnt has well dissappeared when my brain had to try and listen and understand some lady who was telling us about various stars in the Make Shift planatorium thing. I was just happy to sit down. So I was like marvellous.

Around the entire place there were MONKS and PRIESTS. Like the real deal. It kinda made sense when I went to this random Religious lecture/confrence thing. They got me another interpretor lady who was really nice and knew really good English. I didn't really understnd much of what she was saying, they were really big words, and I couldnt' hear her. The main gist of the thing was that if one is Religious, they should Pray and Work equally or else there is no meaning to just work without prayer and to just pray with out work. They were saying that this Era of Humanity is the hardest time for the true conversion of a faith. Cause of all the advancements and fast pace life. There was probley more...but I was facinated by the monks...LOL


I then went to another lecture thing which was about the immigration of Islamic people. The way Italy is having to change it's standards to meet those of the faith. How Immigration should be determinded of what they can bring to Italy, such as a trade or something, as aposed to the quantity of people coming in. I kinda didn't really understand or like some of what the Man was saying. Ha this time I had cool head phones that recived some random-which kept changing-translating in English. But none the less it made sense some of the stuff He was saying...but other times I was like ah a room full of scary people. Why am I in here?? I came out and met with Andrea and friend, and they seemed MOVED by the thing, many Italians would have been.

We then proceeded to find food. This is where things got...really BIG!! Think of the Taste of Tassie. OK then put that in like 2 Aeroplane Hanger type structures and then triple the amount of people you would see at the TASTE, and you have the TASTE OF ITALY!! LOL It was HUGE. and the smell was gooodddd!!! There were like about 30 pizza ovens working their BUTTS off to cook all these pizza's, that was weird. So we went to the place where you pay and order your food. I thought oh yeah you get some strange pasta meal and then go. HA what ever! You get seated at a table, then a man will SET THE TABLE, knife, fork, glass and even paper placemats. Now you don't get that at the TASTE!!! LOL and remember there are like triple the amount of people then what you would see at the taste, and everyone gets their own stuff!!! Ok so we sat down at a table with Andrea's mates, and a waitress came and took some random order for drinks etc. I was like wow so resatraunt. Then we got drinks, bread, main meal,salad,grill thing and then dessert. OK now I thought I was just getting some strange pasta dish. Not the fancy extras you get at a restaraunt. But it was like eating at a restaraunt with thousands of people. SO WEIRD!!! OK a brief description of the food I recieved:
BREAD-nice tasting mountain bread stuff, fried puffy bread that was nice ( the people we were sitting with were friends of Andrea's and they laughed at me when I was eating the puffy bread), bread stick and a roll.
PASTA-Tortalinie with creamy, wee meaty bits, and strange cabbage bits. It was good.
GRILL-Grilled Zucchini, eggplant and tomato
SALAD- Well a bowl of random salad ingrediants with an olive oil, pepper and salt kinda dip thing. You take a carrot or what ever and dip it into the olive oil. NICE!
DESSERT-You are ment to dip the Biscotti and other random sweet things into wine. I don't drink so they were a bilt like ah you weirdo...but THEY are weirder drinking their wine with floating bits of biscotti. HA who is weird NOW??
LOL weird. The people we sat with at the table were nice. Old and spending their childrens inheritence LOL. Two couples so sweet. The ladies ordered like an antipasto thing. It came with cold meats of Italy, you name it, it was probley on there, served on like a round wooden chopping board LOL I was like wow...If dad was there he would have gone NUTS!! LOL the men had pasta, one had something similar to Spag-Bol...but not as meaty or saucy... and the other had the same random pasta dish as I had. Totally tripping out the whole time must have looked like a stunned mullet...wide eyed...and just STARING.LOL one of the ladies used me as an excuse to get some more bread saying I was form Australia LOL.They kept talking about me. LOL I could kinda understand what they were saying...I don't think they realiased that I could Understand.
(FROM THE RIGHT:Andrea, Random friend,Random, Random, Random, Random)

LOL so that was food. Then we said good bye LOL so sweet and then Andrea and myself went to this strange choir. It was awsome. They didn't have any music and had a harmonica which they would use to get the not they started of with. I was like WOOOOO. It was a whole bunch of folk songs kinda choirised. There were two kinda perfomances. One was a bunch of men that looked like Wood choppers and labourers and the other group was like 57 or something men ranging in ages and prefessions singing together. There was about 20 men maybe in the first group-all of which were kinda old form 30-70.So goood!! Both of them didn't have any music accompanying them...I think it's called Archipeligo when you sing with no music. It was awsome...despite the fact I stood for like 2 hours...By the end I wanted them to end. And cause I couldn't understand the MC dude, I was just waiting for the massive Standing Ovation at the end...it was like waiting for John Farnom to end his singing Career LOL IT NEVER ENDED!!! Song after SONG...they were good but my legs were hurting and cause there would have been like 300 people easy in this kinda arenea thing...another Aeroplane hanger thing... I wanted to sit down...ha I sat for the last 10mins I was like OH YEAH. But I was indeed impressed with the fact they sang that all with no music and they were DAMN good!!! I could Imagine my Dad singing along to them even though he wouldn't know the words LOL. At the end they were like signaling for the wholE crownd to sing...LOL me not knowing what to sing I just kinda made noises and moved my mouth. I didn't want to get bashed...lol I am in ITALY here people...MAFIA!! Oh and when in Rome do what the Romans do...even though I wasn't In Rome...I was still close...not really...I would be closer to Milan or Switerland...LOL


But it finished and I enjoyed it. The whole day was awsome I was there for like 10 hours. From like 2pm till 12am so it was a massive day and also taking in the amount of PEOPLE and trying to Understand everything was like eh...too much...poor brain...LOL but I did how ever manage to continue to get freaked out by the Italian way of driving like a maniac and on the other side of the road. It kinda felt as if the car was driviing itself. It was really weird when I first got into the car...I was like eh I am going to die...LOL so weird! But it was fun. Thouraghly enjoyed myself.

25th-Recover after a massive day and watch tv, movie. Eat more pasta, and get freaked out by the random Gabrielle who wanted bread! LOL HE was like Hey your an Australian! I was like eh yeah...cool! LOL my day.

Pronto

When you answer the phone you say "PRONTO" or in other words "READY". Kinda weird. You don't say hello unless you know the person on the other end!

LOL Well I thought I would share with you some of the photo's of where I am living.

This is the Kitchen and dinning area...not that we DINE...LOL


This is the Sofa/Couch where we sit..and watch the television...or well sleep on it, which my housemates do.


This is the Bathroom, where we do Bathroom stuff. There is a shower to your right and a BIDET LOL it's cool...never touched or used it but I look at it and kinda go..."woooowwww".


This is the view of my room if you walk in through the DOOR. It doesn't look lived in or anything special, but there was a girl from Poland who lived in this room before me and she has stuff still in it.


And this is where I sleep. It doesn't look all that flash but hey I have only been here like a week and a bit and I will be moving again in a month or so, so nothing to flash, its comfy so all good.


So there you go, the place I call CASA LOL means Home in Italian. LOL it's more my Seconda Casa...hey not much to that one hey LOL.

I am at the moment watching a show similar to that of Deal or no Deal....but obviously in Italian. The Lady has Just won 40,500 Euro's roughly...$68.000 so NOT BAD! She had to choose people similar to "D'o/n D" and then choose to either plus or minus the ammount they opened from there scroll things. So she chose a guy named Andrea...and chose to + what ever his scroll said...which was 2,500 Euros. So that was added to her tally. She had like 5 + and 5- or something that she could choose from and then that amount would be either X or /(divided) depending again on who she picked, after the first round. So say her tally was like 10,000 Euro's -start of the second round-and she chose, Enrica and then she chose to / (divide) the number revealed...say it was like 2, she would have then 5,000 Euro's. Then she finished that and two people came out with either a card saying X or / (divide) and she had a possability to either have her money X or /(divided). But during the suspence, the host-who was kinda short and kinda sleezey?!-swapped shoes with the lady. She wearing heals and he wearing strange...shoes that reminded me of the Spice Girls shoes...I had when I was little. LOL at the end when she had won the 40,500 Euro's they had to walk down this tunnel wearing each other shoes LOL...strange Italian shows LOL and the audience had to stand up this whole time...bummer for them.


21st-Well I went to the International Realations office for the University, but the Lady who could do what I needed to have done wasn't there...and another Lady, who spoke English, was there just to look pretty LOL she couldn't help me. So I went and got myself a strange Donut with custard stuff inside, and then went to the Cesena International Relations Office thing for my Permesso Di Sorggiorno thing. The lady couldn't speak English, and told me I had to come back on Wednesday from 9.00am- 1.00pm for the Permisso Di Sorggiorno thing...that I was ment to get like...3 days ago. So I hope I won't get eaten for it. EHhh so that was about all. My Housemate Delie had her major exam so I was like hey good Luck. You say "Bunka In Allopo" (you have to pronounce every letter to kinda make it Italian) or I think you can also say "Buono Fortuna" so either or I think. She came back that arvo happy so it went well. Happy Happy Joy Joy. LOL

I bought some Pasta and Pizza so that made me feel really Italian. The pizza was good despite it being kinda old...from sitting under the heat lamps...but hey not bad, for like a piece similar to that of like a 3rd of a pizza in Australia. I cooked pasta that night and well it was scary. I needed to cook the pasta longer but it still tasted good. For some reason it's sweeter then the stuff in Australia. I don't know whats with all this sweet stuff...anyways.

Delie has to write like a thesis for her to OFFICIALLY GRADUATE, and some of the articles she is researching are in English so I am reading them for her and then simplifying them...but I can't understand it...so hmmm not cool! But it's nice to see that I am helpful.

22nd-Didn't really do much today. I went to the supermarket and got myself some lunch cause Sylivia was PARA (DEAD) on the couch so I didn't want to wake her up lol I made my Cornflakes in my room LOL so I didn't wake her up. She is a nurse and does crappy shift work. Tonight she is working 10 hours...9pm-7am so thas like ahhhhhhhh CRAP!! She can't sepak much -pretty much no- English so our conversations are usaly short...and consit of small words...

LOL there is a Guy named Jessepie-how ever you spell it- that is planning to go to Australia-Sydney, as an Eramus student and study Wine. There is spiffy name for it but I don't know it. LOL but anyway he seems nice and might come to the strange Meeting In Rimini thing that is happening on Thursday Arvo, in Rimini like 40mins away. So hmm be interesting. He can speak good English so thats cool. He was like." If you want to talk or have a coffe come to my apartment anytime." LOL eh...hmmm anyways.

Oh mnm's come in a strange packet. Kinda like the Cadbury Chocette things. With the "seal for later" device. LOL it's cool!

I found the Laundry. It has one washng machine and one dryer...hmm brilliant...LOL

Ummm yeah thats about all. Delie has gone to Craotia for a holiday...Lucky thing! SO yeah just Syilvia and I.



Cool cool.
Arrivederci

Una Settimana

Yip it's been a WHOLE week LOL pretty cool really LOL. Survived a week...lol reminds me of the party thing for the Virgin Mary Festival thing, they were playing the "I will Survive" song which I do not know the name of and apologise if that does in deed offend someone.

17th- I went to the supermarket and bought MAYO IN A TUBE LOL...I didn't just buy mayo, I bought tomatoes...lol here u have to wear a glove which is kinda like yeah understandable with all the GERMS in this world, but then once u have put the vegetables or fruit in the wee little plastic bags-same as in Woolies or Coles, you have to weigh them and put a sticker on it. But the problem is...I don't know which button to push for what. I got really scared and kinda walked away from it before I could really LOOK at it. I think this trip will indeed help me to be more assertive and well less shy. LOL some people might find that hard to believe but yes I am SHY!! So maybe this trip will do me some good!!...anyway, I bought this weird bread stuff kinda like umm mountain bread but it tastes GROSS all weird and stuff...why don't they have CAUTION TASTES WEIRD labels on stuff?! Salami-now that tastes like it does in Australia,lettuce-this time in a packet again...cause I am scared of the weighing thing, and some yoghurt. Oh and some strange donut things...which are ok...but need to be eaten the day you buy them I think...anyway...that was my day.

18th-Ummm went back to the Police thing and they said I had to get an appointment and this time they spoke English. I had to go the International Relations Office in the Piazza Del Popolo...hehehe I know that place now as HEAVEN lol the Information Office is there and the people speak ENGLISH lol it's great! So the Information people told me the place where I needed to go for my appointment was closed so I have to come back on Monday. No worries MATE! lol So I went and got myslef an Italian sim card which I am led to believe...don't work..maybe I need credit...hmm how do I get that??HMm anyway lol on my adventure I saw the coolest/strangest/most pratical thing...for some...lol a condom vending machine LOL I was like hey wow! There was a man infront of me and he stopped and looked at it and was puzzled buy it. Only after I had walked past it did I find that hilarious!! LOL hehehe I also saw a NUN on BICYCLE LOL that made me laugh as well LOL. That night I woke up to seriously LOUD explosions kinda like gun shots and bombs...lol I couldn't see where they were coming from or what they were. SO I went out to the living room and asked my housemates what was going on. LoL they told me it was bombs going off and I was like WHAT?? LOL then they laughed and told me it was Fireworks going off. LOL I told them I thought it was the Mafia or something shooting stuff and I was getting all freaked out LOL. Near the house there is a race course where they race horses and apparently thats why there was fireworks going off. LOL I was told the Mafia only live in the South not here in the North lol. So I have to go South to find my Mafia Mob Boss. LOL

19th-I watched alot of strange Italian tv. All of which has horrific acting and stupid plots...I didn't understand alot of it but you could get the general message through the tragic acting. LOL but this movie I was watching was about this father raising his daughter. He wasn't doing to well cause his childhood was crusty. So he was trying to make up for it. He then found condoms in his daughters bag and decided to blow them up?! I was like What are you doing you strange man!!! LOL it was funny none the less!! Umm I also had my very first taste of Tirimisu which was UBER sweet and kinda nice though so I was like hmmm yummy...hmm so yes. I do indeed like Tirimisu! Umm nothing else. Oh I had a big chat with my housemates, we were trying to find my home but everyhting looks different from the sky so we gave up. It was pretty cool!


20th-Well nothing much chilling out relaxing thats about all! It's kinda getting easier to be here, and the whole I am away from home thing isn't so bad. At times I just want to be at home...Dad I hope you are feeding the fishies!!! LOL but yeah It's weird but easier now. I think it will get harder when I have to go to Uni but until then I guess I just have to make the most of it.

Arrivederci

My Address

I have found out the address of where I live. It is as follows:

VIA UMBERTO SABA 589
CESENA (FC)
ITALY
47023

Oh and i have a mobile number which I have no idea if it works or not and it is...3466724924

Brilliant oh I saw a nun on a bicycle. It made me smile! That is all.

Arrivederci

Cesena

The place where I live! It's pronounced "che sena" like Che in Chair. Weird I know! But what is weirder is the fact that the bread is really soft like...umm really soft bread...and has a weird after taste. But hey NUTELLA fixes that problem!

So I have been here for umm since the 14th and today is the 17th...I missed a day somewhere...I think today is thursday...and my phone tells me it is! Brilliant! So I have been in Cesena for 3 1/2 days! A bit has happened...

Lets start from well...when I left which was Friday 11th. I left Tassie and flew to melbourne...that was about all! I ate food in the airport and I am ashamed to say I did not get my bag Glad wraped.

12th-I left Melbourne and flew to Singapore...BUSINESS CLASS! They Upgraded me so I was like oH YEAH...I was so out of place LOL I so looked like I wasn't ment to be there...lol but anyway. I managed it ok. I had a menu to choose food from which was cool. I got the complimentary OJ at the begining, the seat reclined HEAPS...I was almost horizontal oh yeah and I dropped my nuts,(Can you help me find my Nuts?-Over The Hedge (great Movie if you haven't seen it)) and the lady picked them up for me...I felt bad...really bad.
I got off in Singapore and was like...umm ok...now what?! I was tempted to just live in the airport for the next 12ish hours or so but then I was like nah better not...so I caught a train. LOL my first experince of being a tourist. LOL It was kinda cool cause it was in English so that was handy! So I bought a ticket to City Hall...what ever that is. I had to transfer at some place and catch another train to city hall..I NEARLY Died from the humidity BOMB!! lol really it was BOMB so icky!!Bleh. Then get on another train to that City hall place. By now it was about 7.30am so I was tired and so shouldn't be awake right now! So I walked through a very closed looking shopping mall thing...and then walked around Singapore for a bit. I had no idea where I was or what I was doing but hey I got to see stuff. Cafe's open with pple drinking coffee stuff...umm and strange shrine things in the middle of the paths. They were like offerings or something...I dunno. But kinda mystical at the sametime. The combo of old and new, and a puppy that looked VERY hot.

I wanted to go to the ZOO yes the ZOO so I cought a train to some station cause a piece of paper that the travel agent lady gave me told me to, then I caught a bus. That was a bit freaky. I was 30cents short and they don't give you change...so I gave the man S$1.20 for a S$1.50 fare and he was like yeah stupid tourist LOL. Then I got off the bus at the zoo after about a 20min ride...was fun! lol saw the other side of Singapore so that was cool!Then walked around the zoo for like...hours. Was cool saw strange wee little mini deer things and strange other animals in things. I saw a Lemur, those things on Madagascar LOL up really close and also a monkey thing that was posing!!

LOL some Japanese tourists were like "owww kawaiiii" Meaning " oowwwww cute" lol I was like hehehehehe. It was cute but at the same time kinda scary cause it was so close. I was nearly impailed by a red bird thing...but the Zoo keeper was like "they like to scare us" lol ha what ever. I saw the Oragatang things and African animals and saw monkies, bugs-invertibrea-horses, crocodiles, birdies, Australian animals...lol there was a kangaroo there and it was just doing it's thing LOL and the tourists were like "oooo" and you know kangaroo's aren't exactly the friendliest of animals sometimes so I was a bit freaked out and waiting for it to punch someone LOL maybe I was just paranoid LOL. I saw Komodo Dragon things as well so I was like hey thats cool. But the main reason why I wanted to go to the Zoo other then it's a Zoo is cause of the POLAR BEARS in SINGAPORE LOL I was like hey it's a POLAR BEAR lol it was cute! lol felt sorry for it though...having no snow to make snow stuff with but it seemed kinda content.

So that was my Zoo adventure and then I decided to leave. I caught a random bus again this time kinda in the opposite direction that I wanted to go in but hey if I got to a train station then I could find my way back to the airport. Though I still had like 6 hours or so before my plane left. So at the train station there was a department store thing full of random stuff. So I decided to explore. I found PIRIKURA...PIRIKURA lol hadn't done one of those since I was in Japan like what 5 years a go or something. James, Imo K, Nikki and Chloe, would rememebr and all the other pple that went on the Japan trip in like 2001 or something...LOL. They are like those little picture things you do in a booth, and at the end you decorate them and stuff it's really cool!!! The Japanese have an obsession with them. So I did one and then I couldn't figure out why it wasn't printing lol then I saw you had to go around. I found ME lol and then decorated me and then it printed. But I managed to delete a couple of awsome ones so I was like ahh I will do it again LOL so I did!! lol so that was the extent of my adventure in the department store.

I caught the train to the city hall place. This time it was open so I was like score! So many tourisits LOL loved it! Also alot of clothes shops. One thing I didn't understand was why there were so many Singaporians wearing like LONG SLEAVES AND JEANS!!! I was like you strange people...here's me sweating and feelling really disguisiting cause of the humidity and they are all calm and collected. So I walked aorund the City Hall thing and then decided to go back to the airport. So I went to the airport. Walked around..got some strange donut thing and then got a cheeseburger from Burger King. Checked in and got my boarding pass to go to Bologna and then went through THE DOORS!! lol it was weird cause I didnt' have to be like metal detected when I went through passport control so I was like what is going on here...but I was later on so I was like ahhh I see. I walked around the depature lounge thing, got changed from the icky clothes and then I explored. In my exploration I found it. The COOLEST THING I HAVE SEEN!!!! A SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS MONOPOLY GAME!!!

I was like...IN OWE...of this marvellous thing! I had to have it. So I bought it and then I posted it home!!! So I hope it is on it's way home!!! I will know in about a weeks time so I am excited LOL. Then I got a voice recorder thing so I was like hey cool. I was happy!!! So I waited to get on the plane. There was a domestic between two of the trolley people. It made me laugh cause one was like a HUNDRED and the other about 70 or so LOL so I was like heehe they are having a domestic! LOL Then a man Decked out in Orange was prancing...well he was more froloking around the airport! LOL he made me laugh as well!

I got on the plane...and then I forgot my seat number and had a confretation with a lady...and that was my only time of being nervous! But I had a lemonade and pretzels to calm me down and then I fell asleep pretty much straight away! LOL didn't wake up till about 2 hours till we were about to land so I slept for about 10 hours...this time they didn't upgrade me so I was sad...but hey I was asleep. I watched a random Movie as well...so that was cool! Then I had breakfast..but had some weird Massed peas concoction thing with my not to bad eggs, sausage, and potato things. Then we landed in Frakfurt.

13th-I was in Frakfurt and well not much was going on...being a Sunday. How ever there were men on bikes! That was funny! Made my day LOL. Then I got on the plane to Bologna. When I was waiting I was getting freaked out cause well they were speaking in Italian and I had no Idea of what was happeing and then I was like ahhhh CRAP!!! lol So I got on the plane. Had an UBER (I saw Uber in Germany in German...made my day) sweet thing...nearly died of sweetness..and a really weird tasting OJ.
Then I LANDED...about now and in about 5 minutes I was at the most Panicing stage of my life! I got off the plane, and on a bus. Took us to the luggage collection thing. Where I was freaking out cause I couldn't see my bag. But it came!! Hallejuigha (how ever you spell it) and then I was like ok. I had a shuttle bus to the Hotel I was staying at and I couldn't see anyone...looking for a sign with like "Miss Yost" on it lol no luck. So I went outside...where everyone in Italy smokes..and no bus. Inside again, nothing. Then Outside and taadaa a Bus!! I was like oH YEAH! so I got on the bus 10mins later I was in a hotel room, on a bed...with in about 2 hours I was clean (after 3 showers and a bath) and then asleep.

14th- I didn't wake up till about 1am. Set my alarm then slept till about 5am. Got up had another shower. Had breakfast. LOL the eggs were orange, but still tasted good so I was like hey not bad. Then I paid, left and got on a train to Cesena. After buying 2 tickets, hauling a 30kg bag around up and down stairs, on and off a train. I was at the fornt of the Cesena Station and on the phone to the person who was going to pick me up and take me to my Home. I thought that Andrea, was a girl...but nope it's a MAN!! I was like hey wow...lol. After 2hours of stuff I got my room key and a Home. No one was home so I went for a walk and i bought some snacks at the UBER COOL Woolworths and BIG W cross supermarket called IPERCOOP. It's cool! I share with two girls one of which I think her name is Domenica and the other Silvia. Domenica speaks English so thats a KILLER BONUS!!! and Silviia doesn't. I met them and then slept. But later that night the were going to a party for a festival celebraing the Virgin Mary...bit weird but hey. I went and then I was like so should have slept. but it was interesting. Kinda like Falls but more people, on a beach, and a market thing in the street.

15th-Danced...tryed to talk to them but I know crap all Italian and they don't know much English so I was silent. LOL but didn't stop the guys trying to ask me stuff...I was like NO ITALIANO!! LOL dunno if that means anything but hey I tried. Silly saying No Italian in Italian...I Had my first *Kiss Kiss* on the cheek thing with a dude named Marco. That was about 3am...we left at about 4 ish or something...I was pretty hungry at the time and I was like hmmm could go a something to eat. SO at about 5.30am we found a quante little cafe thing and ate more frikkin sweet stuff. I had a donut thing with custard in it. Was really nice but I managed to cover myself with icing sugar. LOl I felt like an idiot LOL but hey! Went home and then crashed...about 6am...sun rising and I was POOPED!! Woke up at around 12/1pm and Silvia's Sister Francesca was awake, she came home with us as she came to the party and she knew more english so it was my lucky day! LOL But anyway, said morning, had a shower and then watched t.v. Silvia was at work, Francesca went home and then Domenica went to her b.f's place Marco, cause he was angry with her cause she was apperaently drunk...after one drink but she wasn't so I watched crappy Italian t.v for a while and then fell asleep and that was My day.

16th-I had to buy a sheet, a pillow, find the International Relations place, find the Quesutra and then go home. I found the International Realtions thing...closed and then I bought a pillow and a sheet and the Quesutra thing was so another day. I walked for about 7 hours or something...so i was like OH NO I am sooo not walking anymore! got home colapsed on my bed fell asleep and thats my day.

17th- I found the Quesutra thing but I think I had to come Back on Saturday. I need to get Permission to Stay in Italy thing so I have to go to the Police Headquaters thing-Questura. But I didn't get what the dude said all I got was "Sabato- Saturday" and then I was like ok...so I left..and will go back tomorrow and then hopefully I will understand what I need to do. I walked around Cesena as well and it's pretty cool. Lots of strange little things. Men in suits riding bikes, cobbled stone paths, small streets, old churches, MINI BUS's like maybe 2.5m-3m long if that, seriously new meaning of MINI BUS! they are really tiny!!lol Bought some more food...I had a fear of buying food (other then at the Intercoop)...cause of the language barrier, but Dad was like you shouldn't be scared so I baught a focaccia thing, which was nice and a custard donut thing. So I was like oh yeah. Tomorrow I will face my fears..with pizza. LOL

So a brief thing of whats been happeing so far! I hope all is well your way so take care!
PARTY SOFT ROCK OFF!!
Arrivederci

Buonjourno

Hello people of the world...THE SPICE GIRLS AREN"T DEAD THEY LIVE ON IN ITALY ON THE RADIO...Love it! Well yes i have arrived and thankfully have the internet running...though i have a problem with the power...will fix tomorrow as today(15/8/06) is some sort of festivale for the Virgin Mary...As Vergine thats what is says on the calender lol so its a public holiday and the UBER cool super market thing is closed so i will go tomorrow oh yeah!!

Umm so before my computer dies i will say thats everything is good..it's hard to understand them but it will be ok...I have a long time to go anyways...but the FULL IMMErsion should make things a bit easier.

Anyway take care!!
Party softly Rock off (go the opposties from Sean)
Arrivederici

The Time Is Nearer

I really don't know if that last word is actually a word but hey...
But yes the FINAL COUNT DOWN(and yes i do apolagise if i have now got that song stuck in your head) HAS BEGUN!!! I have only a mere 4 days and 8ish hours on this WEE LITTLE ISLAND...I have no qualms with this WEE LITTLE island...but hey it's just all good.

It's kinda scary the fact I am doing the FINAL COUNT DOWN...you do now realise it will forever be a continuing act through out the entire time i write this which won't be long.

ok so yes i have an entire 4 days and 6ish hours till i go so thats about...alot of hours.

It's kinda scary really and well kinda awsome all at the same time.

I don't know..i keep asking people who have gone away "how did you get through the last weeks...?" most of them reply ahh i just let it happen went with the flow...

so as Dory said..JUST KEEP SWIMMING JUST KEEP SWIMMING

SO i'm gonna keep on swimming...
Arrivedeici