My Italian teacher as discovered that I am a total nerd when it comes to books. It took her all of three classes to figure that out. So, since it is a one on class, she seems to have decided that for at least a few days, everything we do is going to be focused around books. Today we are going to the library for an activity outside of class, and yesterday we spend probably an hour talking about books.

I think she's figured out I am less nervous of speaking if I am able to talk about something I really enjoy. And this makes it a lot more fun for me. Since I am reading the Hobbit as well, every day when I first come in, if I have any questions about the Hobbit she gives me time to talk about it with her, and I am picking up a lot of grammar and vocabulary from my reading and from that time.

My one setback yesterday was when we got lunch and I said just two words and some Italian guys behind me started saying something that I think was about my poor choice of wording! They used one of the words I had just said and were talking about it. I chose to just ignore them and not listen, so it may have had very little to do with me, but I really should have listened since they were standing right behind me anyway, and then surprised them by letting them know that I do in fact speak Italian! That would have been quite a shocker for them if they were making fun of my two word phrase :D

Yesterday I was watching television with my Italian family, and I have settled on a favorite Italian commercial. I would post the link but it doesn't seem to have made it to YouTube yet. When it does it will appear on my blog. You don't have to understand the Italian; there are hardly any words and the words that are on the commercial I haven't actually listened to.

Flora and Gianfranco continued to make me laugh yesterday as well. One of them had a plan for a diet to prevent high cholesterol, and they asked us if we had that in the States! I laughed and said yes. Then Gianfranco was reading over it holding it far out in front of him, and I looked over at Flora and she was watching him out of the corner of her eye with a smirk and holding her empty hand far out in front of her and pulling her head back, imitating him reading. I laughed pretty hard at that!