Last Tuesday was a great day as it was Megghi's birthday! We had a great time eating cake and watching this comedy show called Made in Sud(South). I have to admit was really funny. So Tuesday was fab as I got to chill and celberate Megghi's b-day.
Wednesday was our last day of school for a week or so for Easter holidays. Therefore, we had a really nice Easter service. We walked into town and went to this beautitful Church. It was not like the realllllllyyyy beautitful one I saw two doors down, but it was massive. We heard from the lovely choir, a strong organ and many speakers in different languages. It was really nice. Antonio and I then walked home. It is not a bad walk from the town's plazza to home, but I am still recovering from a cold. Third one in three months. Don't worry, this happened when I first moved to Australia as well. So we got home, me sweaty and Antonio cool as a cucumber, and then we relaxed for a bit.
Thursday was kinda stressful as I was attempting to get everything together for my trip to Roma. Being my mothers daughter, I got a massive stress headache and could not sleep! Luckily I got a few hours of sleep and felt somewhat well rested for my trip.
Are you ready? Ready to here the fun bit? Are you sure? Allright....
So I awoke at 5:30 and prepared myself for the best weekend evah. The meet up place for our group is this highway and I was not really sure where on this highway. My host dad and I got to this highway before anyone else, so we were kinda worried that we did not see anyone. Eventually we found the others and I got on the bus.
We arrived in Roma (Rome) two and a half hours later, ready for anything to happen. After being informed that we had to change into Church dress, the activites got underway. We were then split into classes (age groups) and had a short lesson. Luckily, I was able to understand the majority of it, but for the parts I did not there was a translator present. This is about the time when things went crazy. We then adventured to a small park were we did some sport activites, including some American games and a crazy Italain game. But the highlight of it was definetly this- https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=777485968929829&l=8103975960803910204. "The Helicpoter" is what I call it and it is the best thing since sliced bread. After sport our sport activities, we went to our campsite for the night and got settled. We then went back to the Church for a talnet show, which is where our group preformed the song "Come Unto Christ." I will hopefully get the video off someone soon, so watch out for that. We then got back to the camp really late and slept. The next day we did some service work, which involved us passing out flyers asking for people to donate medcince or money for people who can not afford medical care like pills and such. After moping around in the rain for a while, we went back to church had a semianry lesson. It was a great Seminary lesson and we all really enjoyed it. Our last activity of the weekend was the testimony meeting which is where I attempted to bear my testimony (testimonianza) in Italian. It was really short, but hopefully it will get longer. We then said a tearful goodbye to all the amazing people we met and went home.
Please note, I went to sleep at 11:30 ish and had to wake up at 7:00 so I could to Tok (seriously do not know how to spell it).
It was about a three hour drive to get to Toc (I will ask later on how to spell it), but because I had been travelling all that weekend it felt like an hour. It was also a really scenic drive, seriously gorgeous. We then arrived at my host grandfather's house where we promptly ate and watched TV. At one point, I was feeling really tired and my host mum told be to go rest for a bit. I ended up having a three hour nap (it was the lack of sleep in Roma, I promise!) and was not able to sleep till 1:00 in the morning. But, that was fine because I ended up staying up with my host cousin and host sister. We played card games and watched a bit of the Voice Italia. The next day involved a bit more of food (I ate lamb for,I believe, the first time, yum!!!!) and TV watching. Since I got up late as well, I somehow ended up eating a piece of cake for breekie. No complaints here! After another long afternoon of card playing and a bit of volleyball, we left for Maddaloni. We again got home really late.
Funny moments
Being one of the only few English speaking people to speak some Italian, I ended up having to translate some flirty situations. It was pretty fab and ended up being quite hysterical. I am pretty sure I asked "Where are you?" instead of "Where are you from" but she (maybe a he, it did happen twice) understood.
Whilst on the bus coming home, we stopped at a rest stop and I got a very sugary doughnut. When I was done eating it, I asked a friend to throw the napkin full of sugar away. He looked at me strange and was like "You want me to through away your snotty tissue for you?". He thought my sugary napking was a cold induced tissue! Hahahahaha.
Anyways....thank you some much for reading this. I hope everyone has had a lovely break and enjoyed eating food and of course praising Jesus. Thank you and write more blog posts later, ciao e grazie!
P.S. If you click here you can see all my pics from my Easter break! Enjoy- https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.778953315449761.1073741832.100000052996315&type=1&l=de8f457e8b
Wednesday was our last day of school for a week or so for Easter holidays. Therefore, we had a really nice Easter service. We walked into town and went to this beautitful Church. It was not like the realllllllyyyy beautitful one I saw two doors down, but it was massive. We heard from the lovely choir, a strong organ and many speakers in different languages. It was really nice. Antonio and I then walked home. It is not a bad walk from the town's plazza to home, but I am still recovering from a cold. Third one in three months. Don't worry, this happened when I first moved to Australia as well. So we got home, me sweaty and Antonio cool as a cucumber, and then we relaxed for a bit.
Thursday was kinda stressful as I was attempting to get everything together for my trip to Roma. Being my mothers daughter, I got a massive stress headache and could not sleep! Luckily I got a few hours of sleep and felt somewhat well rested for my trip.
Are you ready? Ready to here the fun bit? Are you sure? Allright....
So I awoke at 5:30 and prepared myself for the best weekend evah. The meet up place for our group is this highway and I was not really sure where on this highway. My host dad and I got to this highway before anyone else, so we were kinda worried that we did not see anyone. Eventually we found the others and I got on the bus.
We arrived in Roma (Rome) two and a half hours later, ready for anything to happen. After being informed that we had to change into Church dress, the activites got underway. We were then split into classes (age groups) and had a short lesson. Luckily, I was able to understand the majority of it, but for the parts I did not there was a translator present. This is about the time when things went crazy. We then adventured to a small park were we did some sport activites, including some American games and a crazy Italain game. But the highlight of it was definetly this- https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=777485968929829&l=8103975960803910204. "The Helicpoter" is what I call it and it is the best thing since sliced bread. After sport our sport activities, we went to our campsite for the night and got settled. We then went back to the Church for a talnet show, which is where our group preformed the song "Come Unto Christ." I will hopefully get the video off someone soon, so watch out for that. We then got back to the camp really late and slept. The next day we did some service work, which involved us passing out flyers asking for people to donate medcince or money for people who can not afford medical care like pills and such. After moping around in the rain for a while, we went back to church had a semianry lesson. It was a great Seminary lesson and we all really enjoyed it. Our last activity of the weekend was the testimony meeting which is where I attempted to bear my testimony (testimonianza) in Italian. It was really short, but hopefully it will get longer. We then said a tearful goodbye to all the amazing people we met and went home.
Please note, I went to sleep at 11:30 ish and had to wake up at 7:00 so I could to Tok (seriously do not know how to spell it).
It was about a three hour drive to get to Toc (I will ask later on how to spell it), but because I had been travelling all that weekend it felt like an hour. It was also a really scenic drive, seriously gorgeous. We then arrived at my host grandfather's house where we promptly ate and watched TV. At one point, I was feeling really tired and my host mum told be to go rest for a bit. I ended up having a three hour nap (it was the lack of sleep in Roma, I promise!) and was not able to sleep till 1:00 in the morning. But, that was fine because I ended up staying up with my host cousin and host sister. We played card games and watched a bit of the Voice Italia. The next day involved a bit more of food (I ate lamb for,I believe, the first time, yum!!!!) and TV watching. Since I got up late as well, I somehow ended up eating a piece of cake for breekie. No complaints here! After another long afternoon of card playing and a bit of volleyball, we left for Maddaloni. We again got home really late.
Funny moments
Being one of the only few English speaking people to speak some Italian, I ended up having to translate some flirty situations. It was pretty fab and ended up being quite hysterical. I am pretty sure I asked "Where are you?" instead of "Where are you from" but she (maybe a he, it did happen twice) understood.
Whilst on the bus coming home, we stopped at a rest stop and I got a very sugary doughnut. When I was done eating it, I asked a friend to throw the napkin full of sugar away. He looked at me strange and was like "You want me to through away your snotty tissue for you?". He thought my sugary napking was a cold induced tissue! Hahahahaha.
Anyways....thank you some much for reading this. I hope everyone has had a lovely break and enjoyed eating food and of course praising Jesus. Thank you and write more blog posts later, ciao e grazie!
P.S. If you click here you can see all my pics from my Easter break! Enjoy- https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.778953315449761.1073741832.100000052996315&type=1&l=de8f457e8b