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Okay, here is the update on my life:

I’m working more now. Working is a lot of fun because I get to talk to Italians in English all day. All of the lesson plans basically have the students speak about their culture and the differences between others. I mostly have high intermediates, so they can say a lot. I have a private lesson with a vegan! He is preparing for an English test that has listening parts. To help him prepare, I have to read transcripts of a CD that the school doesn't have. Sometimes there is more than one person speaking, so I get to use different voices. I feel sort of bad for him because I have so much fun doing it and he just has to sit there and take it.

I’ve got my bicycle. It has no gears because Verona is flat. No one listens to me when I ring my bell though. I am going to have to get more assertive with it.

Something I did on Wednesday was drop my ipod in the middle of the road and watched it get run over. It still works though. I can’t read the screen and it looks like a dog chewed it up, but it works!

Carrie sent me a postcard. I got it and loved it! Everyone should send me mail.

I went to my first yoga class here. The teacher ended up being a teacher from my school! She is Spanish and was excited about practicing her English in a yoga class. I was the only one that came, making it a lot easier for both of us. It was a Kundalini class. I have never done that type of yoga, so it was quite interesting. It is the kind where people wear all white. We sat the whole time and did postures I had never even seen before. We also rolled around on the ground. Talk about fun! I think I will go back because I liked it. But I think I want to continue more with Hatha. Now, I just need to find a place.

Laura and I went to the Inlingua Halloween party. It was a lot of fun. I was spring and I jumped everywhere. Only people who spoke English well thought it was funny. Luckily, everyone we work with does speak English. I tried to explain the joke to a few of my classes, but they barely understand why we like Halloween let alone Halloween costumes.

I found a store that sells yarn here! Well, Elena found it in the Yellow Pages for me. It was a whole store of yarn from the floor to the ceiling. It is run by little old Italian ladies and the only other customer was a nun. I felt pretty wonderful shopping there. Something I love about Italy is seeing all of the nuns and monks riding bicycles in their religious garb. It is still bizarre for me. Oh, and monks wearing backpacks. I don’t know why that is weird to me, but it really is.

You know last time when I told you that Italian men love purses? Well, they also love riding pink bicycles and scooters. And on that note, I’m off.