A special day at the University of Milan + the end of my fortnight!

We forgot one important rule in the jacket R-7... having fun!
I decided to take the jacket with me at the university, and that day I met a lot of people!



Matteo and me on the bus, reaching Milan! It was so early in the morning... You can see it from our tired faces! He had a lot of fun listening to the jacket's adventures, so he decided to take a picture with "us" :)



every special day in university starts with the typical breakfast Italians have at the bar: cappuccino and brioche! The real cappuccino in the one you can see in the picture, not the one that Starbucks sells! :)
(of course, that day I wore the CISV USA sweatshirt, too!)



I was late for a class, but walking in the corridor I met Clara, an old friend of mine, who was there to discuss her final thesis! This picture was taken just 5 minutes before she was called in the room for the discussion! (that's why I didn't have time to tell her about the jacket adventures...But I promised her I'll do it!) :)
(omg, my hair! My face! We are the beauty and the beast!)




It was a sunny day, so we decide to have lunch in the park beside the University! It's called "Parco della Guastalla" and they say it's the best park of Milan!
Here we are from the left: Chiara, me and Manuela!
To celebrate our first lunchtime at the park of the 2012, Chiara prepared for us some little muffins! You don't know what you missed :)

After all of this fun...

Unfortunately, there is also this rule in the jacket R7:
5. You must not keep the jacket more than a fortnight. (Two weeks!)

Luckily for the next one in the list, there is also this one!
1. You must wash the jacket.

Here you have the proofs I followed it! (and asking to my mom to take a picture, I noticed that she can't use a camera!)




Then I left it drying under the italian sun...! :)

And what about this rule?
3. You must put something in the pocket before you pass the jacket on.

I'll let Raquel say what she found in the right pocket! :)
(for your information: Glinka gave me a magnet from Australia!) :)

The jacket is now in Madrid...we'll hear about the adventures soon!!!!!

Thank you for your attention!
I miss all of the girls (and James!) from the camp! Thanks to all of you again!

Sara :)

Italian Volunteering

From the Jacket R-7:
7. You must do something of service while wearing the jacket.

CISV became an important part of my life, but I'm also a volunteer in local associations...even if sometimes it's hard, I always come back home happier than tired!



This is me with some friends at the Italian language school for foreigners called "Scuola di Pinocchio"! I've been a volunteer there since october 2011 and I'm a teacher in the most advanced class (they're kinda upper intermediate/intermediate level). Preparing the lessons takes a lot of time, sometimes it's difficult explaining - especially the grammar! - even if all of my students are good italian speakers!
Here we are after a class, that takes always place on thursday evening in a parish recreative centre, that hosts us, because our association doesn't have its own office.
From the left: Ester (she's a teacher in another class). Francesc from Albany, me, Matteo (called "Baglio"...he was the first president of our association, he's been teaching to strangers for ten years...he's helping me growing up as a teacher!), then we have Marja from Russia and Veronika from Romania!
Camilla (the last teacher of my class!), Nassi and Zack from Morocco, Ivan from Ukraine and Cheikh from Senegal were missing that day.



This photo needs to be explained! :)
Since november 2011 I'm a volunteer in an association called "Cielo e Terra" that works with the social services. Part of the work of Cielo e Terra is opening a dormitory for 9 men (but now they're only 7) every night from 8 pm to 8 am. It's always opened by volunteers that spend the night there.
This is the volunteer office, where we can find the dormitory's journal that every volunteer has to complete after the night, to tell to the coordinators and to the other volunteer what happened that they should know...and of course it's also our room! :)
I decided to show you the office (too much pink for me!) and not the other rooms or the guests because sometimes it's difficult dealing with them. They're not dangerous (of course!) but that night they had a quarrel, and I preferred not to disturb them when they were quiet again.
In few hours I'm going there again, tonight! :) I hope everything will be quiet!

From Milan to...Amsterdam! 10-12/03/2012

Here I am, again!
Finally I have some freetime to tell you the amazing adventures the jacket and I had!
As I wrote in the post below, the day after the jacket arrived, I moved to Amsterdam for few days to visit Heidi...we were so happy to spend together my first days with the jacket! :)

But, before I forget it, rules are important, too!

From the jacket R-7:
6. You must do one thing you've never done before while wearing the jacket.
With the jacket I did, for the first time: fly all alone, visit Amsterdam, visit a friend abroad! :)

Here I am just landed in Schipol :) (omg, look at my face...)



Me and Heidi in ther room! (You can't see it, but there are Christmas lights under the curtains)
We had a lot of fun that night...I prepared for us a tasty pasta (bought in Italy!) and then we had a skype talk with Molly! :) (if you don't remeber her, search her in the posts below!) :)

The jacket and I with the smaller and less known I AMsterdam!

And last but not the least...



This is the best picture we took together! The jacket, Heidi, me and...Darth Vader!
(Amanda, this is especially for you!) :)

I have to thank again Heidi for hosting me and for the days we spent together! I needed a short vacation from my daily schedule :)
Unfortunately, I had to come back home...

News From Italy!

Last month the jacket finally came to me...
Unespected, it came just the day before I left to Amsterdam, to meet my dear Heidi!
We had a great time together in Amsterdam, and I had great time at home too..
Now it's travelling to Madrid, to Raquel.. Actually it should have already come!

I had a lot of things to do, but I promise I'll post in these days all we (the jacket and I) did together under the Italian (and Dutch!) sun!

xoxo

Sara :)