Let's make this quick

Hokey so,

The rest of last week went alright. The kids weren't too awful and we had some fun.

Now to this weekend:
On Saturday we (my host family and I) tried to go for a bike ride, were out about 10 minutes and then it started raining. So we rode to a nearby park that has tents set up for us to huddle under. Of course instead of waiting it out like we hoped to the rain turned into full on pounding rain, with lightning and thunder. A bit upsetting since I wanted to bike but it was all very very pretty and a really fun experience. Everyone ws at the park--including my student from last week Gloria and her parents, and my old student Giovanni. Too cute. Nicola (the father) came and picked us up in the car. Thank goodness. That night we had a meal with all of us tutors, our host families, and the director. We all had pizza--I had kebab pizza, it was a bit strange.

On Sunday all of us tutors and the director drove to Lago Garda in the hopes that the weather would be better there. No dice. Still crazy rain, too much wind, and of course I got car sick. All the same, it was very pretty, and I'll probably put up photos later this week. On our way back we stopped off at one of the largest malls in Europe (based outside of Bergamo). And it was a mall (aka pretty lame).

Today was my first day teaching the red group (aprox. ages 9-11). They are all awesome, except for one student, Davide.He spends the entire time yelling and disobeying me. It is one thing to totally not respect me but to keep it to yourself, this kid does not hide his disrespect at all and by the afternoon I was pretty fed up with kids in general. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to last a little longer before wanting to kill someone. Bleh. Besides him, it is a good class. They are all pretty bright and they all are attentive and sweet.

That is it for now. I'll write again later in the week.

S