Summer totally stole Spring's spot

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Ciao!

Just going to through this out there: Tomorrow is May 1st. Having seen this on my calendar, I’ve realized how much time has gone by, and therefore also the last time I’ve written to you all. I hope all is well!

Here, tutto e a posto. I just realized I’ve been saying that wrong all these months, but I’m still learning everyday! I am taking a higher level Italian course, now, and my cinematography course is finished. However, we are now all working together on making a short film! It’s a lot of fun, and they are all so nice. We did, however, drop one of our members. Having tried to talk to him multiple times about changing the script without asking and not listening to our ideas, we told him he could start working on a team with us, or working on his own. He chose to work on his own. Anyways, it’s been going smoothly since.

Other than that, Spring has pretty much come gone. In my humble, Canadian opinion. It’s Summer and don’t tell me anything different. I am stifling hot everyday, burnt all over my shoulders and dehydrated like mad. What are the folks around here wearing? Jackets. Pants. I even saw someone with a scarf and touque the other day. What are you thinking?! I do actually ask them that, and they just say I should wait and see what July is like. Thanks for the invitation, but instead of melting like a cone of gelato, I’ll head back home.

So, with these seasonal changes came all sorts of fun things. We are going to La Fortezza almost everyday after school and the kids are moving onto shorts and skirts and cute sandals. I get to dress them everyday, so it’s sort of like playing Barbie’s sometimes. Picky, smart Barbie’s that can talk, but Barbie’s none the less.

Also, there are lizards wandering around! Like, everywhere! It’s so cool. They run all over the side walk, and one was completely frozen in fear the other day, I got a good look at it, but before I could get a photo, Bella was going for the kill, so it ran off. Anyways, I just think it’s so weird that they run around here like ants run around Alberta.

Then there’s the not so fun animals. Ales found a dead scorpion in the flat today. She said it was the first one she’s found here in two years of living here, but to be careful and sure to wear slippers around the house. It was all tiny and black and she told me about how dangerous they were and where they lay their eggs and stuff. Should sleep well tonight. Jeepers.

Over at Val and Andy’s, we have taking to watching the sun go down off their deck. Venus is always bright and center over the ever ongoing hills that seem to be shadows upon shadows of each other. They have a sweet view. Mind you, everyone does in Urbino.

Last Saturday, I went to another concert in Cavallino. The ones on the farm just out of town. There was a band there that played Folk music from the Marche region, which is where I live. They were a lot of fun, and they even used me as a prop for one song! Sadly, it was a song about my Father, Mother, Brother and Fiancé all dying. But luckily it wasn’t about me, it was about a girl named Rosalina. Albert called me this for the rest of the night.

Pamela was there again, too, and she’s invited me to her place for a weekend in Fano. I’m trying to see when I can take off and see her! I’m hoping to go the weekend just before my Birthday for an early party!

Tomorrow is a working holiday in Italy. Literally called the Holiday of Work. Guido is coming tonight, and hopefully that means I have the afternoon off, because I would like to head for a huge bbq Val and Andy have invited me to.

As of today, I have only one month and a half left here. It’s surprising how much that hit me. It was good though. Reminded me to enjoy what I can and do as much as possible. It’s such a short time, but I really can’t wait to get home, too.

BIG NEWS! I have been in talks with my friend Cheyanne from Edmonton about getting a place together when I get back. And we’ve found one! Well, she found one. Ha, she did all the work, but either way, there is a wonderful two bedroom main floor on the South Side of Edmonton waiting for me to move my things into. I’m really excited and can’t wait!

So, having said that, I was talking with a lady the other day at the park, who asked me how much longer I’d be here. She said, Wow, that’s going to be hard on the kids. Yep, I said. And me. The girls and Leo are definitely like little siblings I never had. I love them very much and it will be hard to go.

But, having said THAT, I am looking forward to waking up without kids wanting cornflakes and having to clean dirty bottoms and struggle with getting them into the bath, then twenty minutes later out, and all the work I do in general.

As you can see, I have many mixed feeling, but I suppose it’s all that can be expected.

Oh, the other thing I’ve noticed is how quickly the sun goes down here. Whereas is Canada it takes forever to get from in the sky to behind the treeline, here it just sort of drops out. Day/Night.


Anyways, I hope you’re all doing wonderful and that May starts off with some good weather, including rain for those fires, and flowers blooming bright! There is a tree I sat under today, and you could hear the bees taking all the pollen. I looked up and it was FULL of them. I found a new sittin’ spot after that, but it was so cool.