a very kalos* weekend

*kalos is one of the nicknames of my classmate silvia calò, who i spent most of the weekend with, and also means good in greek.

so yes, it was a very kalos weekend. friday night paola invited me to go to the sea for the weekend with her and some of her friends, but in the end i decided not to go because i got nervous thinking about leaving again. this way i'm more calm. so friday night i went to piazza castello with calò and we saw our classmate sara dance--they're having some performances there this week for the festa di san giovanni, patron saint of torino (every italian city has a patron saint) (!!!). we also saw them burn the huge funeral pyre-like-thing, and saw the bull fall...but it fell towards porta susa, which brings bad luck :( it was like groundhog day. then we got frozen yogurt--they have these things called "granita" here which is like a cross between a smoothie and a snow cone, and on a hot day (or night) it's amazingly delicious. we got those.

saturday i went back and forth and back and forth from the center to home. i went to casa einaudi (we slept at augusto's house because alida went to the sea), and i went home, got my package and went to the post office (in between the 2 houses)...and it was closed. uffa. so i went back home, left the package, then went back to augusto's for lunch. afterwards i stopped by micaela's to get paola's present, bought some roasted nuts from a street vendor (there for san giovanni), and got home where it was all nice and cool (it was veryveryvery hot yesterday). i painted the background of paola's picture frame, and it started to rain incredibly hard and didn't let up for a couple of hours. at night i went to a pizzeria with marti, eli, simone and calò (all classmates), then we went ot piazza vittorio and watched teh fireworks, then went to get gelato.

today i slept in and then went to lunch with molly in piazza vittorio. we walked around for a while, then i came home and finished the picture frame. tonight i'm going to calò's for dinner. tuesday we're going to school to get our yearbooks, and i hafta get my copy of the report card, then we'll go to lunch because marti leaves for barcelona on wednesday. also on tuesday albi comes back. this week will be shopping and packing and saying goodbye.