Padua this weekend
Hello!
So I finally have some time to write because I'm in school. I don't really do anything in school ever...sometimes my teachers give me assignments to do at home but classes are just lectures for the most part and I really don't understand enough to follow allong. So I went to the computer lab and figured this is a good way to kill time!
So if you've been watching my vlogs you know that I've been here for a little over one month. Everything is going really great, I mean I thought it was great before but now it's just better. I can actually understand the main idea of what people are talking about when I'm in a group of friends, but it's hard to contribute to the conversation. Whenever I try to eveyone else kind of shuts up and looks at me waiting for me to talk...it's not like I can just casually say something. I'm not sure how to really explain it but I hope you understand!
Today is Saturday, and after school I'm going home and having lunch then catching a train at 3.45ish to Padua! My friend Jamin from Germany lives there. I'll stay overnight and then I'm coming back home tomorrow night. Now that I know more Italian I am able to actually do things, which is exciting. It's like the hardest part is over. For an example when students learn English, it is easy at first because English can be very simple and still correct. Though it get's more challanging the longer you study it. For Italian it's the opposite. In the beginning, it seemed like the most complicated thing ever. And some days it still does. It takes a lot of concentration to understand a simple sentence because the sentence structer makes no sense in English. For most phrases there isn't even a direct translation. For an example, they use the verb 'fare' for SO many things!!! fare = to do/to make. In English we say for an example 'I'm going to take a shower'. Here it translates to 'I'm going to make a shower'. Or 'I want to go shopping' is 'I want to go make shopping'. It's difficult to get used to insterting different verbs for things that we would never use that verb for in English.
Of course some days are better than others. Sometimes I wake up and I just understand everything all day. And I think to myself ' I AM SO GOOD AT ITALIAN!!!' and I'm like convinced that I know the language. Then the next day I won't understand anything and I feel like I haven't even made any progress. The expierence has been equally as frustrating and challenging as it is amazing and fun. Every day I face a new challange...there really is never a dull moment!
I have to go now but I will write soon!
So I finally have some time to write because I'm in school. I don't really do anything in school ever...sometimes my teachers give me assignments to do at home but classes are just lectures for the most part and I really don't understand enough to follow allong. So I went to the computer lab and figured this is a good way to kill time!
So if you've been watching my vlogs you know that I've been here for a little over one month. Everything is going really great, I mean I thought it was great before but now it's just better. I can actually understand the main idea of what people are talking about when I'm in a group of friends, but it's hard to contribute to the conversation. Whenever I try to eveyone else kind of shuts up and looks at me waiting for me to talk...it's not like I can just casually say something. I'm not sure how to really explain it but I hope you understand!
Today is Saturday, and after school I'm going home and having lunch then catching a train at 3.45ish to Padua! My friend Jamin from Germany lives there. I'll stay overnight and then I'm coming back home tomorrow night. Now that I know more Italian I am able to actually do things, which is exciting. It's like the hardest part is over. For an example when students learn English, it is easy at first because English can be very simple and still correct. Though it get's more challanging the longer you study it. For Italian it's the opposite. In the beginning, it seemed like the most complicated thing ever. And some days it still does. It takes a lot of concentration to understand a simple sentence because the sentence structer makes no sense in English. For most phrases there isn't even a direct translation. For an example, they use the verb 'fare' for SO many things!!! fare = to do/to make. In English we say for an example 'I'm going to take a shower'. Here it translates to 'I'm going to make a shower'. Or 'I want to go shopping' is 'I want to go make shopping'. It's difficult to get used to insterting different verbs for things that we would never use that verb for in English.
Of course some days are better than others. Sometimes I wake up and I just understand everything all day. And I think to myself ' I AM SO GOOD AT ITALIAN!!!' and I'm like convinced that I know the language. Then the next day I won't understand anything and I feel like I haven't even made any progress. The expierence has been equally as frustrating and challenging as it is amazing and fun. Every day I face a new challange...there really is never a dull moment!
I have to go now but I will write soon!
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