8.30 a.m. Wake up 10.00 a.m. Holy Mass in Italian 11.00 a.m. Break 12.00 a.m. back to our families and lunch Free afternoon with our families
Dear Diary,we got up at around 8.30, we got better acquainted with our families, now we don’t know what to write ....... We reached the church by our " Boude-car “fluttering up to 180 km / h.
The Holy Mass was celebrated by a "bearded-priest " (no reference to teacher Barba), a very nice Franciscan priest. During the celebration, an opera singer showed off her voice. Everyone turned back at least thirty times to see who was singing apart from Giovanni... In the next song, however, we all turned back to see why the singer had let Giovanni sing as soloist... After the service a buffet was offered to all Italians, but a bit of liqueur in the cakes made us a little 'drunk'.
Funny things happened afterwards: someone counted how many people were playing a bikes-game with their mobile, others spoke through clenched teeth to show off in teacher Fenzi’s photos, some guy tried to date an Hungarian girl.
We spent the afternoon with our host families. In the afternoon we watched the English version of the musical "Mamma Mia" (watched? It’s only in a manner of speaking! Alice fell asleep at the opening credits and woke up 2 hours later ...) Then we left for the Hungarian “Boscopark” where we met Marco, Massimo and Riccardo.
While waiting in the ticket queue, Cube ran up to us waving his arms about as if he hadn’t seen us for ages.... but the dream was broken when he cried " where is the toilet ??"... After wearing the sling we started from the first level. We reached the 12 m high course. We came home unsettled by the reckless driving of our landlord.
We gossiped with our friend about "boy-friends" and giggled at Alice's answers who does not understand English.
A family’s friend came at 19.30: she has a sister in Rome, so she can cook Italian food and she can understand our language very well .........alas! .. no more comments aloud. After the first course (spaghetti with “carbonara” sauce) the three of us went to straighten our hair, burning it a bit '. In the meantime the second course (lasagne) was ready
. While adults made conversation, we had a competition to see who could speak Hungarian better. Then we exclaimed together "èehes vogyoc": they looked at us amazed because after two courses you cannot say "I'm hungry." After saying goodnight to everyone, we returned to our room and we sat down to write the diary. Before closing the door Borcsa (the girl who was hosting us) told us "I learned my first Italian word: "vaffxxx!" and proud of herself, she went away.
NB. we haven’t taught her that word...
Alice Gironda and Anna Dentella
On Sunday morning we attended the Holy Mass in Italian, after which there was a buffet. While we were happily eating everything you could wish for, we celebrated the birthday of the nice friar who had celebrated the function. After this little buffet we all returned home with our families and spent the afternoon with them.
After dinner, I took a walk to the mountains with my host family. The scenery was very beautiful and the walk was not strenuous at all. After this excursion we made a stop in a clearing among the hills where there were the remains of an abbey and where peace and serenity reigned. The place and the view were very charming.
Back at home we played a board game and then, after dinner, with my host boy and his dad we went for a drive to Budapest by night. The city was very lively in the evening and traffic was closed in the main street because an opera was performed in the Opera House. I was struck by this real sense of culture and respect. We came back at about 10.00 p.m. and I went straight to bed dead tired .......... It had been a funny and interesting day .... Budapest, seen from the hills at night, is very full of atmosphere......
Giovanni Cunego
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