It's been a good day.

Today's been a good day.

I went to the 8:30 yoga class this morning, then went on to the drudgery of classes. But that was all right. I worked on my Marketing write-up in-between history and math. Okay, so the day wasn't so exceptional, at least to begin with. But after classes things started making me smile.

As I was walking back down the hill today, toward Girasole, the crosswalk-man was there. He's pretty much always guarding the crosswalks, since there's an elementary school nearby. He also does all sorts of other odd jobs for them--I've seen him washing windows, pushing the lunch cart, etc. He always says "bongiorno" (sp?) when any of us Franklin kids pass by; he's just a very nice, old Italian man. In any case, today as I passed by him he said "buona sera" and I replied with the same, and then he handed me a Mars bar! How random is that? So then I was rather surprised and smiled and said "grazie" and continued on. I think this happened to another girl too, to whom he gave a Lindt chocolate.

I eventually made it back to Girasole and waited until it was a decent hour back at home and called Baba and Angi, since they're going on their cruise in a few days here. That was nice! I got to talk to Oma too, except with a much better connection than usual. And then I called UPS and talked to my academic advisor, who helped me register for classes. I was on the phone with him for almost an hour. Things went really well though, and I'm feeling a lot better about next semester, even as I start to get a little sad about leaving (not so sad as to dampen my excitement to go home, however). There are a lot of people I'm going to be missing though. :-(

So here are my classes for next semester:
Contemporary Economy
International Political Economy of Southeast Asia
Pre-Calculus (yet again, you'd think I would have escaped by now)
Spanish Writing Seminar (I couldn't fit German into my schedule, but there's still hope of things moving around...)
And then I'm trying to decide on a Phys. Ed. class. If you have any recommendations, please do let me know. (I've been toying with folk dancing... just kidding...)

Then I walked up to dinner with Keely and we had 4P, which people always get really excited about for some reason. It's essentialy pasta with creamy tomato sauce and chicken. Then we went and saw the Variety Show, which was very happy. There were a lot of good acts, even though the show was pretty short--around 40 minutes. But everyone was really supportive and enthusiastic and it was fun. I'm quite pleased that I went. Plus, we had the chance to have a Barcelona-Trip-Reunion!

And I also found out that Alyssa and I are going to be on the flight back from New York to Seattle!

So many happy things today. And Alauna and I are going to Ponte Tresa (in Italy) on Saturday, then I'm going to spend part of the day shopping with Keely and Deniz (Keely wants to buy a beret...).

Life is happy. :-) Ari