# Gelati: 1, Distance Walked: 6.7km
My holiday is winding down. Today was my 2nd last day of class. Our regular teacher, Diana, was back. Surprisingly, we continued to study the Passato Remoto tense. All irregular verbs this time, of which there are many. For "fun" we did a crossword which was all about business terms. We needed a lot of help from Diana to do this as most of us didn't have a clue.
After our coffee break Arianna paired us off and we had to make up a story, beginning with "A long time ago". This was so we could practice our past tenses. I was paired with Livia, who is French. This is relevant.
We were each given 5 cards. This first card was of the main character in our story (ours was a robot). The 2nd was an event (a meteor flying in), the 3rd was an obstacle (a mountain range), the 4th was of the central theme (ours was an alien) and the 5th was the moral of the story (ours was "in the end, everything was fine").
Our story was the robot lived all alone on a planet. One day he saw an meteor in the sky. It came crashing down to earth in a mountain range. He hoped it wasn't a meteor but instead an spaceship. He hoped there might be a female robot on the spaceship as he was lonely. Livia wanted to make the last 4 sentences be one enormous run-on sentence, which was very French of her. She got her way as it is also the Italian way of writing things. We only made 2 mistakes in our entire story in spite of this, so I'm feeling quite happy.
I have no idea what my classmates stories were about. A combination of strong accents and a full brain meant all I could do was just sit there, smile and pretend I understood what was being sad.
For lunch I just had a poke bowl (Decent) and a gelati (pistachio and canteloupe - Good) and then headed back to my apartment. I wasn't meeting Miriam for my conversation class until 4pm so I had time to kill. I was going to spend it doing some Italian revision, but I decided to read a few chapters of my murder mystery first. I ended up finishing my book instead (as I wanted to know whodunnit). Two weeks of intensive classes plus 1 hour of one-on-one conversation every day is severely tiring my brain.
Conversation went OK. I talked about the restaurant I went to last night and about restaurants in Bologna in general. For some reason we ended up on the topic of dangerous Australian animals. I told her not to get tricked by stories about drop bears. I also showed her some Facebook videos of a snake catching company that operates on the Sunshine Coast. I think I've scared her off ever visiting Australia.
I have no idea what we'll talk about tomorrow. I've run out of small talk topics. Must do some hard thinking.
When I got back to my apartment this afternoon I noticed that someone has updated the apartment number outside my door. It wasn't me - honest. For one thing, I'm not tall enough. They weren't wrong though.
For dinner I went to Osteria Da Fortunata, which I had gone to last week. It specialises in Roman food and its gimmick is that it has three grannies who sit in the window making fresh pasta. I had the fettucini al ragu which was sadly just Decent. The pasta was Good but the ragu was not. For dessert I had tiramisu, which again was just Decent. The cream to sponge ratio was off (too much cream) and the cream layer just tasted of cream, not marscapone. I was disappointed. Last week I'd had their carbonara and zabaglione and both were Good (although the carbonara at Da Guido's in Melbourne is better). I guess I should have stuck to their Roman dishes.
I'm going to eat again at the brand new restaurant near my apartment tomorrow night. When I went past tonight I saw they've put up awnings outside now, so they are gradually getting set up. Sadly there was only one table occupied though.
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