What a crazy week. Yesterday I tried to recover from Rome and today I was busy preparing for this weekend. This morning at 9 Anna came over for our weekly lesson and we took the tram downtown. We went to the Egyptian Museum. Wow, I loved it. It is the third largest collection outside of Ciaro and the Louvre in Paris. There was a whole room of mummies and one of Kha the architect and his wife. Both their bodies plus, food (yeah actual food like meat, fruit and bread) and animals where mummified in the tomb. The museum had a huge collection of papyrus writings. The thing that impressed me the most was the rooms of statues. There were two rooms full of actual statues, some over 20' tall, from tombs, and most of them were entirely intact. The museum is also in the building that was orginally the King of Torino's palace growing up as a boy and later turned into a Jesuit School. I loved the building too. After the museum we window shopped and then went to a store that was so expensive I stopped looking at the tags because I was becoming depressed. But upstairs there were a few shops so we looked around. When I got home at a little after 12 I fixed a simple lunch of pasta and grissini and an apple. At 4 I took Ruggie to the park to play and I met another Au Pair from Chec (I know the spelling is wrong) Republic. She is a year older than me and really nice. She was an au pair in CA last year so she speaks very good English plus her family she lives with is very international and the girls are fluent in English, French, Italian and they are only 7 and 9!!! Unfortunately she is leaving for Madrid tomorrow for family vacation and wont be back until the 13 of July. But I hope to meet up with her then. In fact her "mom" is living with is an architect and I have a possible phone interview with her tomorrow!!--Don't worry I'll keep you updated.
We stayed at the park for 2 hours and then went home to get ready for our dinner guests. Filippo is in Boy Scouts and they invited his troop leader and two girl leaders over for dinner. The guy was 25 and the girls were 24 and 18 . They were very nice and could speak a little English which was nice. I found out that our scouts and Italian scouts are a little different...for example the girls don's sell cookies and both boys and girls hold meetings together. The meal was delish as always. A quick run down on Italian meals for you
You start with bread, meat and/or cheese, then the primi which is usually rice or a pasta dish (tonight it was pasta) secondi which is meat or fish and veggies (we had meat roll with potatoes) dessert (icecream and fresh fruit tonight) and then coffee. Most meals take 2-3 hours.
Tomorrow we are going to the Alps---on the Italian side not Swiss--to the tallest mt in Europe, Mt. Bianco. We will spend 4 days there and then on Monday Pat, the boys and I will go to the sea for one week. I will try to keep updating my blog but not sure what the computer situation will be like. I am looking forward to both places but one of my dreams since I was little was to visit the Alps so tomorrow should be awsome
Have a wonderful weekend and I will blog soon--Buona Notte
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Nice blog. Italy is a nice country. Been there a few years ago and be back in a few weeks. I'm so excited
What amazing experiences you are having! Its so wonderful that you are getting to do things that you've dreamed about since you were little and just think how young (not in a bad way) you are!
I love hearing all your fun tales!
MP
I really have been missing your blog since you have been running around and unable to write every day. You are having more experiences than most people ever dream of having. Try to enjoy every single second of it. In those bad times go into your own little world and think of all the good things that have happened. Dwell mostly on them and not the situation at hand. I love you very much and wish you only the best. Keep trying and I,m sure things will get better. Love MOM
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