Day 37 - New Week New Classmates

# Gelati: 1, Distance Walked: 6.7km

Today is Monday so there was a new batch of students starting at the school.  Naor and Andrea have left Bologna but in their place we now have Ethan and Anna.  Both are from the US and both have actually been studying at the school for some time.  However, they were the only 2 left in their class so they've been moved into ours as they are at the same level.  I like them both very much as they are both about as fluent as me.

Today in the grammar section of the lesson we once again just did a reading comprehension exercise.  I'm not sure how much I comprehended as the language was very flowery.  The sun didn't just shine, it was blinding.  People didn't try to convince you they used their wiles to play cunning tricks.  I thought my vocabulary was pretty good but I filled 2 pages in my notebook with new words and phrases.

Just for fun, in the conversation section of the lesson we actually touched on some grammar rules.  There are 3 different ways to describes hypotheses in Italian and each one is conjugated with different tenses.  For example the following three sentences are all different types and use different verb tenses.

1. If you wait, I will come with you.
2. If you had less to drink, you would not be drunk.
3. If you had studied every day, you would have passed the exam.

Arianna asked each of us a question in one of these 3 forms and we had to answer in the correct tense.  My brain was hurting badly by the end of class today.  Diana apparently will teach us more on this tomorrow.  What fun.

I had a quick lunch of some soup I'd bought from the supermarket before heading back to school for my afternoon conversation class.  It was with Giulia today.   After the usual stuff about what did you do on the weekend, she decided we would talk about the problems of mass tourism.  It is an easy enough topic to talk about although hard to find something interesting to say.  I did manage to squeeze in some talk about the time I stayed in a capsule hotel in Japan and what it is like having an AirBnB next door to my home in Melbourne.  The best bit about it was it was a conversation so she talked about as much as me!  My tired brain appreciated it.

For dinner tonight I went to a Napolitan pizzeria near my apartment.  Their pizzas are Decent but ridiculously huge.  They are bigger than the plate they are served on which makes them tricky to eat.  I still ate the whole thing.  I'm back home now wishing I hadn't as I'm uncomfortably full.