Brava!
Today I had a lot of fun. I wore my new boots, and I think that had a lot to do with it. At work I worked again on my wooden bust friend. I applied plaster to all of the holes. The radio stations here play both English and Italian songs. Today I heard an English song, and thought I was hearing “vieni con me” instead of the actual English words, I was kinda excited about that.
I learned a lot today. My tutor is letting me borrow her restoration dictionary. I am using it to learn all of the Italian words and vocabulary and techniques that I will be encountering. Also I got a really long lecture from Danielle. But it was a good lecture. We walked around to all of the paintings in the Lab and discussed them. He also talked about how hard of a field it is, and you can only do if you love it. But today I got my first Brava at work, its like good job in a way, but is used more frequently and not as formally as good job.
Of course I also made mistakes. Three times I had to be repeated a question. And then did the wrong thing because I didnt understand. But the good thing is that everything in Italian Restoration is reversible…so that is definitely good for me.
Last night I went to a Brazilian festival. It was really interesting! There was a lot of dancing, and it was such nice weather. Me and my friend Barbara were the first ones to start dancing, and then like 20 minutes later everyone else started too! I went with a huge mix of people. Barbara is from the czech republic, Chris from Brazil, Fabio from Jordan, and me from America! It was fun because we all said “cheers” in our own language, and then tried to say it in everyone elses, and it was just bizarre.
Also before we went, we were at Chris’s house, where there are always people playing music. I eventually got the guitar, and everyone wanted to hear an American song, so I decided to play and Sing Tom Petty’s Free falling, they all loved it. When I finished they kept commenting on how perfect my english is. Its strange but I actually get that a lot. A lot of my Italian friends will ask me to pronounce certain words, and the say “wow that was perfect.”
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