Verbi e Bancomati (Ver – be/ a/ bonk-o-mat) – Verbs and ATMs

            Today got 2 words, mostly because this is all my day consisted of….well that and class and a nap but mostly verbs and bancomats….

            ..i woke up this morning, made my cappuccino and was off to school….and what started off class? Verbs…let me just tell you, this language has about 57 thousand verbs, not to mention that all of those break into 4 different groups of how to change them and then the new ending still depends on the subject of the sentence….so to conjugate a verb for the sentence, you take the infinitive verb, look at the last three letters to see if it is –are, -ere, or –ire (which then breaks down into 2 more subgroups if they are regular or not)….then look at the subject of the sentence, either: me, you, he, she, it, they, we, you(as in a group)….and each of those have a different ending for the new verb……literally that is all I have been trying to learn all day long….notecards, on notecards, on notecards….its a bit ridiculous….i mean English is super hard and I am very glad that it is my first language but seriously, -ed or –ing….end of story, there is occasionally something else but for the most part, that’s it…..

            …so the 6 or something hours that I spent working on those was the verbi part of the day….il bancomat is something else entirely….so yesterday I went shopping not planning on buying anything, but I ended up finding my coat and tried to use my debit card to pay but there wasn’t enough American dollars to cover the Euros….so when I got home I transferred some money to be able to pull out money today at the ATM…but when I did, it wouldn’t let me…and since I knew the money was there, I thought maybe I had a limit of what I could take out so I redid it and tried something lower….still a no, so I tried just a very small amount……and still nothing…..now I was more afraid that the machine was going to eat my card, so I decided it was probably the machine, and therefore I left to go to the other about a block away…..did it, nothing so I tried again for a smaller amount and was told my card “wasn’t approved for international withdrawls”….well come to find out, it was all my fault…..the nice bank people were watching out for this crazy person with my card that was trying to withdraw a huge amount of money in only 7 minutes haha….silly me…..

            ….thank goodness however for my town….good ol’ st. maries coming through for me again on this trip (Blog personal shout out to Tracy Fraser at American West! Thank you so so much, you are a complete life saver!)J good to know that how is always watching out for you…..

….you know youre from a small town when you post something on FaceBook about it and by the time you have gotten a hold of your parents to take care of it for you and they call, one of the tellers has already seen your post and started taking care of it….god I love that town….thank you again St. Maries for having my back, even from 4500 miles away

            ….other than those two situations, the day was rather uneventful, even got a good nap in today! J so obviously it was a good day….probably another slow day tomorrow….hopefully booking trains and hostels tomorrow for London Easter weekend, and Rome the weekend after J and hopefully looking into Ireland for St. Patty’s day/…..lets see how far we can stretch this recently unfrozen bank account! J a domani, buona notte tutti! (until tomorrow, goodnight everyone)

Ganz helping me learn my verbs today in class :)