Wednesday, January 19th

This morning, like every morning, Brenda and I were awaken by the outrageous clanging of our heater turning on to warm our apartment. I smile every time I hear the sound of what seems like someone trying to break down our door.  

Today turned out to be an amazing one, Italian class was fun learning some new verbs such as abitare, lavorare, studiare, etc. Aurora then taught us numbers up to 20, very exciting!  Afterwards we checked in with Manka about our first impressions of our service learning meetings.  After our check in we headed out for caffe to start our journey to Piazzo Vittorio.  We split into pairs to conduct our interviews with an immigrant and with an Italian.  

Kelsey and I paired up and had some success with asking a young Filipino man about immigration. He seemed interested in talking to us, he was 24 years old and had moved to Italy 14 years ago.  He wasn't interested in talking about immigration, possibly because he's been in Italy for so long.  We also talked to a young man working at a butcher from Egypt.  He thought immigration "was good", he seemed to think Italy has an "okay" policy with immigration.  He mentioned that, "working here is a lot better than Egypt", which is his reason for immigrating here.  Unfortunately Kelsey and I had little luck with interviewing an Italian person.  Either they wouldn't have the time or the patience to listen to us. 

But overall the experience was very eye-opening and interesting.  Manka took us to an Indian restaurant that was DELICIOUS and to the largest gelato place I've ever seen! I am way too full but happy :)