First day of the program

Got up late! 9:15 am. Supposed to meet the group at 9. Rushed to change and got bike to rush at the meeting point. Gabriela said just walk - it's faster. So I ran sorta. Managed to be there barely on time.. kinda .. some other people were late too. So... Phew!

Whole day was orientation. They talked about their institute, Turin as a city, Piedmont as a region, and this program. It was good, since this is my first time here.

There was a guy from International office here who had a talk about hand gestures in Italy. How the Italians would use their hands to express feelings a lot. And how it can be confusing. So he told us some of the common geatures and which ones are ok, which ones are vulger etc

Then had a grand lunch at a restaurant with the whole group. 41 of us! It was a mess. . waiters didn't speak English, we barely had Italian speakers with us. 39 of us are 20 year old kids. But went well. Ate some stuff that I didn't know existed.

Other faculty member , Matt, and Andrea went to see some exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's self portrait. Apparently it is a big deal. Since it is shown for a couple of weeks under some special light (so the paintings don't go bad) once in a few years.. going on now. Everyone suggested I should go. I didn't. Not today at least.

Came home and prepared class and slept off early hoping I can get up on time for my class at 930am next dayLes mer