Cinque Giorni: Terzo

The class started at 8:20 today. Although school officially starts at 8:00, no one is in the classroom by then, not even the teachers. So as I walked towards the classroom around 8 o'clock, the students from the class greeted me first. I felt so proud - I was finally part of their class!

I was surprised that the Physics teacher happened to be the same Math teacher. According to the Italian kids, this is normal because the budget is low, and therefore, there is not a lot of teachers available.

During philsophy class, these three boys came into our class. Apparently, when a teacher is absent, the class is divided into small groups, and they sit in a random class. These first-year students looked terrified to be in our fourth-year class, so much that as soon as the bell rang, they ran out the class. I swear, we are not intimidating!

I found it funny that the students only learned about Catholicism during the religion class. If this school was a Catholic school, it would make sense. But as a public high school, should not the school talk about other religions too? Of course, Italy is a very Catholic country. If so, then should not the school at least rename the course from "Religion" to "Catholicism"?

Our history teacher is from Napoli (Naples), so he has a thick accent. The students in the class make fun of the Napoletano accent and complain that they cannot understand anything he says. I bet that's an exaggeration, but I have no way of figuring it out since I cannot understand Italian either way: with or without the dialect.

With that said, however, I am starting to practice speaking Italian more and more, and therefore feel more comfortable doing so. Shout out to Elisa who corrects my Italian all the time - she is so helpful!