Spent the week with Jacopo and Johannes babysitting. Most of the time, they were decent, until I found out that Jacopo was having a party, sold 50 tickets to it, and was planning on having a bunch of beer and alcohol. After consulting my own father for advice, I told him that he needed to tell his parents or I would, because even if I couldn’t control him my responsibility was to the house.
Although it BLEW MY MIND, Eva gave him permission to have the party. I told him all week that I would have absolutely no part in cleaning up Saturday. Literally almost every other hour- I KNEW he’d make me do the cleaning, even if I told him a million times I’d kick his ass if he made me do it. Well, turns out his friends hired bouncers for the party, which roughed me around quite a bit. I ended up slapping some ass hole named Ettore because he got all up in my face. My friends came- Mago danced on the table, Priscilla got drunk, and then we had a cuddle fest on the trampoline. My friends included Gian Paolo, Mago, Vittorio, Priscilla, Denise, Simone and Carmello.
Woke up in the middle of the night to Ettore banging on my previously locked from the inside door yelling “Baby! Americana! Bella!” and then someone else yelling “Vaffanculo! Lasciala stare.” Hahahahaha. I went back to bed. I also found 1000 lire in my shirt the next day.
Left my room at 12 (hoping to GOD the boys did their work). Johannes was still in bed- BIG surprise… and Jacopo was in his PJs and hadn’t done shit in the direction of cleaning. I was FURIOUS, so I spent the next 8 hours on my hands and knees scrubbing, doing 4 loads of dishes, and putting the mountain of Johannes shit in the garage back into the tavernetta. I spent the entire time convincing Jacopo that I wasn’t mad at him- ugh. I could’ve killed him.
When the parents came back, I cleaned for 3 more hours until I got summoned into talk to Maurizio for the first time. After the solemn order to “close the door” he whispers “i’m not mad at you!!!!!” and then I go over, give him a kiss, and finally take a deep breath. We sit and laugh for about 30 minutes about every ridiculous thing in the world. Suddenly, Jacopo comes in, and watching Maurizio’s reaction, I had to turn away so Jacopo couldn’t see me laugh. Maurizio’s smile literally DROPPED off his face, and he put on this furious glare to respond to Jacopo. The minute Jacopo closed the door behind him, Maurizio turns to me with a grin on his face and goes “anyway!!” and continues with his story. God, I laughed so hard.
Aaaaaanyway. Came back to Atripalda after a lovely sunday morning walk in the mountain with Jacopo Eva and Maurizio (love them!) and saw Rita for her onomastico.
Monday, school was cool. I was bored in physics, so I went into the hallway where I ran into all my favorite boys, Manuel Vittorio and Gerardo. They got me to follow them to the boys bathroom end of the hallway, then ushered me in when no one was looking. Of course other boys came in and gave me the weirdest looks ever. The hard part was getting back out, so Gerardo snuck out first. Pushed my luck a bit, because the principal of the school saw me coming around the corner from the boy’s bathroom. Oops 
Today, I had a wicked water fight with Ragano, and the girls Denise and Valentina. Ragano hid in the bathroom while we attacked him from above the stall, and he also stomped on a water bottle from the top of the stairs while we were all standing at the bottom. We found big water bottles and Valentina and I attacked him outside. It was great, until he brought the water into the classroom and got everyone’s homework and my purse soaking wet. Nice one! I’ll get him back though…. just wait 
This afternoon I met Gian Paolo in the piazza in the afternoon. Oversized, belted collared shirt and sunglasses, we sat on a bench and talked about Shakespeare for about an hour, then walked to his cousins house to pick up some disegni that she did for him (architect!). She was fantastic, amazing and invited me back- I actually really, really enjoyed meeting her. And then after a quick walk in the piazza, he went home, while I went and bought some clinique makeup at Lucia’s.
Tomorrow I’m not going to the pool because Gerardo has a party to go to, damn! And only 3 weeks left! Today Valentina almost made me cry thinking about it, and she was mighty close to crying herself. Oh no!
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