Clear, 61 degrees, Ticino

Today was a pretty good day--I kept busy! This morning I had German class, and then a Marketing midterm, which went so-so. Not fabulous, but I didn't bomb it (I don't think). I wasn't sure what kind of test it was going to be, so I found it a little bit difficult to study for it. In any case, no excuses. After Marketing, I went and took charge of the Writing Center for two hours. I did some homework for a bit--some studying for math and bit of letter-writing... then, miracle of miralces! Someone came in and she needed help!!! So I had my first experience as a real writing consultant, and I think it went very, very well, if I do say so. I think she was actually looking forward to writing/revising her paper once we were done. It made me feel all warm and happy inside.

After I was done there, I went and grabbed lunch, then went back to the Writing Center to pass off the key to one of the other writing consultants. After that I went over to the Main Villa campus, where the library is, and I discovered a package with my name on it... from Michele! I must admit, it was quite exciting. :-) Then I headed over to the library to finally choose my research topic and find some books on it; I couldn't find enough books for the cult/fanatics topic, so I decided to stick with something safe and go with Flannery O'Connor. My topic will essentially be how her religious background influenced her work. It should be good--like the Junior English project except more low-key. Library didn't take too long, so then I headed back down the hill and finished washing dishes after yesterday's baking/cooking bonanza. Eventually went up for yoga, which was outside on the soccer field today. There were lots of itty bitty Italian bambini on the field attempting to play soccer, who thought we were ballerinas. That was rather entertaining. I don't think we're nearly as graceful as that.

I was planning on staying up there for dinner, but I wasn't hungry and it sounded to heavy, so I came back down the hill to study and work on homework, which has yet to be worked on. But soon, I promise. We had more beautiful weather today; very chilly this morning, but it warmed up to about 70 degrees. It's getting darker earlier too... Ah! Well, Sicily on Sunday! Anything else worth mentioning? I can't think of it now. Deniz has her first basketball game on Wednesday; I'll have to show up at that of course. I've only got one episode of Fresh Prince left... O, woe is me. (That was for you Soraya.)

So that was my day; productive, if not particularly interesting. As long as it's productive, I'm happy. More soon!

Smile, Ari