right now i should be studying for an italian quiz

i'm sitting in CAPA - the school - and i just finished writing out my scholarship application junk and sending it all the sam w. poor girl. she's going to printing off pages for days. whew.

anywho...i'm not studying, although i should be. i will. class is at 1:15 and its about 11:45 right now. i think the time shows up different for you guys. italian is much harder to learn that i thought. i think that's because i learned German in high school, which is so much closer to English. this is all different. i can't make the sounds with my mouth. ugh. lol.

so i don't know if any of you have seen the movie Requiem for a Dream (with Jared Leto, Jennifer Conally, rated R). for most of my readers, i would say...do not check this out. you won't like it (mom, sherri, barb, and other people in the age range, this means you.) i mean...it was a well shot movie. i thought the cinematography was great. but it was so depressing. just a spiraling down of all the characters. nothing good really happened. basically its like...life sucks, you get addicted to drugs, and then horrible, horrible things happen to you. then end. maybe it hit so hard because, while im in this not normal environment, i like to be cheered up. i've been watching The Office and romantic comedies or other happy movies this whole time. haha. anywho...i'll post the trailer for Requiem below, if you want to check it out. proceed with caution.

things that are different here that you might not know...

• the paper is a different size. same width, but its longer. and for people like me its annoying, because it sticks out of the top of my notebook. haha.
• dogs go to the bathroom everywhere. kind of a gross thing, but i run into it (not literally) all over the place. there really isn't grass anywhere. so its kind of strange.
• they tell time in military.
• things are open and closed at strange times. since time is not really that important here, stores open around 10. sometimes. they close for a few hours around lunch, and then close at nigh around 8.
• scooters and mopeds are everywhere. which you might this is a myth. its not. here's proof.

i'll try to think of more random stuff later. and eventually - when its warmer - i'm planning on documenting the walk to school for all of you. which i actually don't do that much right now because the bus is shorter.

also...i'm going to Verona on saturday.