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So since I am facing the last 17
days here in Torino….(I know I am excited to go home and see my family and
friends, but I am totally and completely heartbroken to be leaving here…..) I decided
the blog needs as many more posts as possible….so I am going to try to post
everyday (I say try because well finals are coming up and they require studying…bllleehhhh) about something or anything that occurred…..
So Today…. I sat down to work on a
paper for my Italian Culture class….the topic?
“You have been
given 10 million euros from an unknown source…the only catch is you must use
the funds for the betterment of Italian society, particularly Torino. Explain in detail what you would create, its
main focus, clientele, and why you chose it.
How does it positively influence Italian society? Why does it work here?
What do you see as the future of you creation? Turin in a paper carefully
researched and referenced, including a basic budget outline.”
I originally was planning that I
would add another line to the metro system (we only have 1)…but well when I started
that “careful research” I found out that there is no way I could ever afford it…..so
I sat and sat thinking, wanting to start my research,…watched a talk by the man
who started Humans of New York…..still couldn’t come up with anything…..so
how did I clear my head?.....i went for Gelato and shopping J….
…which of course just meant a bee- line for Gianni’s for
some gelato…..seriously it’s the best in the city, he has finally opened the
whole case and filled it with soooo many flavors! Yesterday I had violet (yes
the flower! One of the best flavors ever) and Apple Pie…..those are my new two
favorites…..but I needed to try the Pear so today I had pear and strawberry J
love loved it….i will miss my daily gelato so so much…
…and
afterwards I was off to H&M….thinking thinking the whole time…..thought of
a Juventus shuttle, because lets be honest, the bus to get there is ridiculous
to try to get on to go there and back…but then I thought, I don’t know really
how well that could do but it is an option…..then I was passed by some English speaking
tourists, and like always it jarred me to hear it (seriously going home is
going to be so hard to hear so much english haha) and then I remembered the
talk I had with Ely last night about how both of us were going to have to keep
up our languages when I went home and she was telling me about the Tandem
partner over skype which apparently is a very popular thing here….you pay 5
euros an hour and have a tandem English speaking partner over skype…..and then
it dawned on me….what about a tandem program here in Torino…..
…lets
be honest…no one here speaks conversational English, if they understand it at
all….it jars me to hear it here because I know pretty much all the English speakers
in this town of 1 million I think….since there is so little tourism to Torino
(which I don’t understand because there is so much here!) no one has reason to
learn it….especially because most people were born, and raised here, and then
married and had kids of their own here…so people don’t speak it….which is great
for students studying here because we have to learn how to speak it in order to
survive…..
…but
I also have found that many adults I have met here wish that they could speak
more, or kept it up after what they learned in school….so I thought, Tandem
program, like the one we have at the school!....now how do I spend that 10
million euros on starting this program…..hmm….looks like I have more research
to do……but see shopping pays off! If I hadn’t decided to go, I would’ve stayed
home all day and never heard those tourists, and then never gotten the idea…..thanks
mom for the help in getting to go get great ideas, and some new leggings J
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