the earthquake

so i am sure that most of you have heard about the earthquake that happened in italy yesterday night. i am totally fine. although, i can honestly tell you that i thought my room shook a little bit at around 10:30 that night, but i thought i made it up. i guess not...scary.

from what i've heard, earthquakes are not common in italy. our italian professor was talking about in class yesterday and she seemed pretty shocked. during class the director of our program came in to ask everyone if all of their roommates were accounted for. and some of them were not, which was a bit eery. however, everyone from CAPA is fine and everyone that was traveling around the country for the weekend made it back before the earthquake happened.

i've been trying to read up on what happened and found a pretty comprehensive article here on the BBC News website. here's where i am in relation to L'Aquila:


now...how i change the topic on my blog without sounding like i'm making such a big thing sound small? lol.

last night we went to an italian movie with my italian class. it was a really interesting experience. i didn't really understand much. luckily it was a movie that did not depend entirely on dialouge. it was about the defects of italian society. so basically the flaws that italians have. it was a satire. i don't know...i think even if i spoke italian i don't think i would have liked it. haha. but i did get to see two american movie trailers in italian: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and Seventeen Again. which was interesting. as the girl sitting next to me said: "it's weird to see Matthew Perry but not hear his actual voice."

nothing else big is going on this weekend. i have a quiz in italian on thursday, and then the whole weekend to write a paper (woohoo). actually Easter weekend is sort of a big deal in Italy. on sunday they have this huge exploding cart go off by the Duomo. i think it should be pretty interesting. we watched a video on youtube in one of my classes about it. basically they load this old cart up with a million fireworks and then just let it go off with people standing like 5 feet from it. our class was sort of shocked, but my teacher just shrugged her shoulders and said "no one's died yet, why should we make them stand back?" haha. i think that's sort of the attitude italians have about a lot of things we think would be really dangerous. and i don't think they probably have nearly as many lawsuits as we do in America.

alright...until next time.