# Gelati: 1, Distance Walked: 6.9km
I studied how to construct conditional sentences all yesterday afternoon in preparation for today's grammar lesson. So, of course, today we studied the Passato Remoto tense instead.
First we went over how to conjugate various verbs in this tense, which I already knew so I was feeling smug. Then we had a list of sentences with missing verbs and a list of verbs and had to fill in the blanks. On the plus side, the verbs had already been conjugated. On the minus side, I barely scraped a pass. Sigh.
After the coffee break we played a game called Dixit. We each were dealt seven cards with images on them. The player whose turn it was (Player A) had to think of a word or phrase that was illustrated by that picture. Each other player had to pick a card from their hand that matched the phrase too. All the chosen cards were shuffled and then placed face up. Each player then had to guess which card was from Player A. Player A got a point for everyone who guessed correctly. However, they got zero points if everyone got it right and zero, of course, if no-one did. You had to think of a definition that was hard but not too hard. Also, every player who guessed correctly got a point plus if someone picked your card you got a point too. Arianna won, but I came a credible 3rd (out of 7). It was a fairly complicated game but a good way to work on our vocabularies.
For lunch I went to a place that claims to specialise in Singapore fusion food. I had gyoza, sushi and a soba noodle salad. Comfort food but not very singaporean.
My conversation class was with Giulia again. In the opening chit-chat she asked me how I was and I said I hadn't slept well as I'd eaten too much last night. We ended up spending the whole hour talking about food. We both agreed that visiting supermarkets in other countries can be fascinating. Although I'm not looking forward to having to visit a supermarket once I get back home.
After the conversation class I did my homework that was more fill in the blanks with the passato remoto. I had time to think it over (and translate all the sentences) so I'm hoping for a better result tomorrow.
I finished up my homework too early for dinner and decided to have an aperitif at the bar in the piazza at the end of my street. It is just a kiosk with tables in the piazza. I went up to the kiosk as I wasn't sure if you ordered there or if there was table service. A man came up, so I stepped to one side to let him pass. I assumed he was going up to pay. He stepped to follow me. We danced back and forth a few times. It turns out he was a waiter and was trying to step aside so I could pass him and sit down at a table (it was table service). I was planning to perhaps have a drink there again tomorrow but I'm too embarassed now.
For dinner I went to another place recommended by the school. I'm trying a different restaurant every night. It seemed like a dreadful tourist trap and it definitely caters to tourists. However, the food was perfectly Good and reasonably priced. For dessert I had a self-saucing flourless chocolate cake with a marscapone cream, which was verging on Absolutely Delicious.
Tomorrow we've been promised irregular verbs in the Passato Remoto tense. Any bets on what we might actually study?
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