Okaiiiiii!!!!!

Okai! (say okay with an obnoxious Italian accent!) My roommates and I are obsessed with saying it that way now...you all are gonna hate me when I get home, I'm gonna say random Italian words and other words like Okai and phrases like "ya sistahs ass!" cause all of these different people here from around the country have different accents and different things are fun to say! You all are gonna make me come back to Italy cause you're gonna be so annoyed with me haha.
Anyway, today was my day off. I slept until almost 1PM...I haven't slept in that late in I dont know how long! The reason I slept so late is because my roommate Sara and I are in the cinema class together and watched the required movie last night. It is called Novecento (means 1900 in English) and it takes place in Italy during the Fascism take over from 1900-1945 and shows the differences between fascists and socialists and follows two males through the years and one is a peasant that works on the farm that belongs to the family of the other boy. The movie is over 5 hours long. She told us it was 3. It was the uncut version and had actual killings of animals, very explicit scenes, and was very disturbing to watch. I went onto IMDB and Wikipedia after to research it and it had a rating of NC-17 for a long time. I hated watching this movie. It could have been good if it was 2 hours and didn't have such unnecessary scenes that had nothing to do with the plot line. It was terrible. They tried to be dramatic and artsy with it and I think they went way overboard on it. I also received my homework back and got an 85% on it! I was so upset!!! I did an awesome job and back in the states I would have gotten extra credit on it, but not here. It wasn't good enough. The teacher is hard to understand and makes taking notes very difficult in class. I am considering dropping the class, but I have not totally decided yet. It is very frustrating.
On a lighter note....no school today so at 4PM today I met up with a few other people and we went to a warehouse and helped build floats for Carnivale on Feb. 19th. It was a lot of fun!! We made paper mache flowers and animals. Then afterwards they invited us to be part of the parade on top of the floats!! So I am gonna be part of the float that is like a 'political satire' float and will dress in red, green, and white with a mask and wig on and just dance on top of the float! It's gonna be so much fun! We are going back a few more times to help with decorations this week also. Another good thing is that this extremely good looking guy named Gino drives us there all the time! I sat shotgun with him on the way home with him...it was great! All I need in Italy is Alessio and Gino! haha so funny. They are great!
That was pretty much my day. Tomorrow is my Italian class and cooking. Then we have to make up our Italian class we missed on Monday, on Thursday this week. So we have to wake up early, no fun, but oh well! Oh, and it is snowing again right now!!! UGH! it is so cold here!!!! I was not prepared for this and neither are any of the locals! Hopefully is warms up soon!

Until next time....Ciao!