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Last night we had a Super Bowl Party here at the villa after dinner. Kyle went to the Army base and bought Doritos and chips & salsa and GIRL SCOUT COOKIES and snickers/reeses and SO MUCH junk food. And, while it was junk food --- it was fantastic. We started to watch the game around midnight. However, it was broadcast in Italian with no American commercials. Needless to say, I went to bed around 1.
The game wasn't over til 4 am or so here. But, everyone was in happy spirits when I woke up because the NY Giants had won...and there's a Harding Alum (#52 Tank Daniels) on that team :]

We didn't have class until 11 this morning and then we ate lunch and had some free time.
Libby, Nathan, Leigh, Mallory and I headed into to town to go to the Co-op to find some masks for Carnevale and just to explore.
Needless to say...we got off at the wrong stop, had to find the right bus, ended up being the wrong bus and then just got off and followed the golden arches to the McDonald's that was right by the store.

And, when we got there - it was almost disappointing. Definitely a neat place, but somewhere I would like to wonder around by myself - not with a group of people.

Tonight we had a Carnevale party and before dinner/the party it seemed as if people were very somber -- neither happy nor sad. So, we dressed up and took pictures together and played games and ate dinner. After dinner, we turned on music and "choreographed" in the classroom until everyone was ready to go outside.

A Carnevale tradition for the kids is to spray eachother with silly string and throw confetti. So, we were all awarded a can of silly string and ordered to go outside to the basketball court. It was to be boys vs. girls. Unfortunately it was raining...so we took off our shoes (bad idea) and froze. Once Robbie said "GO!" we went at eachother...and I had silly string in my hair, on my pants, my shirt, in my eyelashes....it was fantastic. Robbie got a video of it on his camera...it was madness!!!

We went inside and they had chocolate cake and milk for us. The perfect ending to the evening! Michella (the 7 year old I wrote about earlier) was here at the villa for our party with her brother and sister and her mom. She was dressed up as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. While we were eating our cake in the dining room - she came up to our table of 6 or 7 people. She talked to us girls in English and then looked over to Riccardo and spoke in fast Italian and looked back at us and said "bye-bye students". She's absolutely brilliant - despite her learning disability.

I've been a little home/friend/job-sick today. Not in a bad way, but I've been here for 12 days now and I'm settled. I miss my sweet little girls at Gym Stars so much. I miss their energy and their hugs and I miss getting to interact with them everyday. I hope they don't forget me.

We had a split chapel today. I did the devo and talked about Ex. 21:5-6 --- Pierce My Ear....that song still is so deep and so moving.

Ciao!