FORZA ITALIA!

For those you you who might not know... ITALY WON THE WORLD CUP!! What a rush! It was insane. Jillian, Angela, Christie, Melanie, and I went to the Bar Degli Angeli to watch the game because they had a projectio screen outside. We were watching the game with all the Italians and it was QUITE an experience. Hah. They were flipping off the screen and yelling GO HOME in Italian. (In case you are wondering, I cannot find the quation marks on this keyboard.. haha) Anywho, when we won... people went crazy! Everyone was jumping up and screaming and singing the national anthem. Then we ran as fast as we could to the main piazza- Piazza Reppublica- where people were honking their car horns, waving flags, setting off fireworks, jumping into the fountain, hugging and crying--- it was INCREDIBLE. I cannot think of anything I have ever seen like it before in America. To think, Italy has not won in 24 years... and I was here to see them win. What an intense, exhilarating experience.

So... in other news...

We go to Padova and Verona (yep... Romeo and Juliet) this Thursday and we are very excited. While we are here we are going to try to see an opera in Verona in an outdoor amphitheater.... WOW. That would be another experience for the books.

I am going to go now... we have to get back for dinner (which will be fantastico, I am sure) and then study for a quiz tomorrow.

Ciao Ragazzi!

Mari