Yet another wonderful weekend!

This weekend was super busy and tiring  but super amazing! On Saturday I skipped school and went to Fieracavalli with Diletta, her dad, and little sister Ginevra. I have never seen so many people and horses in my life, and it was the first time since I arrived in Italy that I heard country music and saw cowboy hats. Hearing super american country music was really really strange, I felt like I was back in southern laundryman with the hill billies. But the food was much better (well it usually is in Italy) than at a fair or something similar back home. There was lots to choose from. Normally in the USA when there are vendors at the fair you usually have your choice of Chinese, German (I think they are the sausage people), and then the various stands with pizza, hot dogs, hamburgers, funnel cake, etc. Here, each vendor was selling a different regions food. Diletta and I ended up just getting pizza. But that was better than fair pizza in the USA. Here are some pictures.

Later that night I went to Elisa (the girlfriend of Fabio, my host uncle) 's birthday party. I was told she was turning 21...but she seemed a bit older than that...maybe 25. Ah well, anyway that was a lot of fun because Elisa Candeo (a girl from school) was there with a few of her friends from the marching band (only drums though) she is in. I made a lot of new friends because of that. Most of the people go to other schools besides Cattano, and then there were a few who were young adults maybe in their 20s but they were still really funny.


Then Saturday I went to Ferrara to cook with Trine, Nathalia, Maxim, and one volunteer Christina. We made homemade ragu, pasta, and beshamella (for some reason I can't seem to spell that correctly) sause for home made lasagne. It was a lot of work, but lot's of fun! When the TV stopped playing music, Christina put in a CD of a sort of popular Italian band, called Moda, click here to see a beautiful song by them! Here are a few pictures from that day as well.

Me, Trine, and Nathalia preparing veggies for ragu. 

Nathalia, Trine, Christina, me, Maxim

Trine, me, Nathalia, Maxim

Talking in Italian is much easier than at the beginning  I am using less and less English with my family. But, a few of my friends still talk to me in English so that makes it difficult to learn. I love that Elisa Candeo and Andrea talk to me only in Italian  it makes me try to respond in Italian  and helps me continue to work on my comprehension.