Day 10 & 11:

Yesterday was definitely my favorite day of camp so far. It was “Show Day” which meant parents were coming at 2:30 for Beauty and the Beast. We spent the morning preparing for the show. Again, I worked on scenery. For some reason they think I’m an artist and ask me to draw. I was pretty impressed with how some of it came out.

 The acting crew worked on the scenes while the dancing crew worked on the dance. Every Friday for lunch they have pizza. It’s not just slices either. Every kid and adult gets his or her own pie to eat. It was delicious. It’s like a thin crust cheese and tomato kind. It probably was some of the best pizza I ever had. I get an espresso after every meal. Parents started showing up at 2:30 and the show started. It went so well. The kids were really excited about it. 

I started getting close with these 2 girls. They were styling my hair for a while. They know some English. There main language is French. One of them is attending the International School of Torino. I have a feeling a lot of these kids come from money. It sounds like their parents are from all over and working in Torino. Camp was so hot yesterday and extremely buggy. I have bug bites all over. There are so many ants too. 

When we got back we went to the market and got a bottle of wine. The wine here is so cheap and you can buy it anywhere. I showered and got ready for dinner. We ate dinner around 7:30 and had lots of wine. Our older men friends were at dinner again. After dinner we had a dance party with them. One of them tried to teach me how to dance like the Italians do. 

It was pretty funny because I am taller than him. I played DJ on the computer of the restaurant. I played a bunch of American R & B songs.

 I saw the restaurant had a microphone so I guess they do Karaoke sometimes too. We stayed up drinking wine with them for a while in the lobby. They are from Naples, Italy. 

We had plans of going to Milan today but Marie is sick. We are just hanging out today. We are going into Milan on the train tomorrow. It’s about an hour from us on the train. We got lunch at one of our new favorite spots, One Four Eight. The meal consisted of spaghetti with French fries and a salad with only lettuce. They say potatoes, which I didn’t realize, were going to be French fries. It’s a weird combination, spaghetti and French fries. 

The French fries were amazing. We are going to have dinner at the hotel then go out into town later tonight.