We have classes here?

Today was the first day of class. I had an 8 o'clock today :( still not a morning person, but it was okay. That class only meets 4 more times that early. The schedule fluctuates because of onsite classes (their fancy way to say field trips) and different activities - like tomorrow morning's falconry lesson! I hope we get to have them land on us, but I highly doubt it'll happen. Anyway, brain skip, I had my Intro to European Studies class which only lasts til the end of June. We'll do journals, field trips, keep up with the website, etc. Then I had Bible which shouldn't be bad. We covered the first 2 chapters of the Christian Home book, which actually was written by my prof's father in law, and it seems like we'll just read and take notes in class and answer the questions at the end of each chapter. Then we'll have quizzes and tests over that, but it won't be bad. Then I got a short nap because I'm not in the speech class. Then I went to my big humanities class (I'm taking it for 6 hours) but everyone's in it. Basically we learn about Italian history and culture and art and all the cool things we would learn anyway. My 6th hour credit assignment involves more journal assignments and then when we all go to Rome, I will be an onsite professor! I'm pretty excited, but kinda nervous too. Then we had Italian - which I'll only have til the end of June. It is pretty fun, I did my first assignment for that tonight - I had a discussion with an Italian student from a local church! It was complicated, but a good cultural exchange. Then we had our first chapel after Italian class and then another awesome meal from Leda and Paola...I think I'm falling in love with food. Then we had some free time til about 6 when we left to go play sports with the Mayor and his office staff and the local church. We each had a volleyball, soccer, and basketball team. I was obviously on the volleyball team because I'm not coordinated for basketball and I can't run or kick, so soccer was out. We lost both games, but we got better as we played more and we had fun. After that some of the youth group from the church were playing music on a sound system so we started a dance party over there and they taught us Italian dances and then they wanted us to teach them some of our dances so we played Cha Cha slide, Bye, Bye, Bye by N'Sync, and then Whip My Hair - they really got a kick out of those (and I'm sure our dancing!). Then the church had made food for us which was delicious! There were all kinds of appetizers - my fave was these fried roll things which I decided were the Italian version of hushpuppies. Then they had pasta and then pizza! They had dessert, but I held out for gelato :D. Also there were all kinds of drinks on the drink tables, but Coach Burks was standing over there and informed us that our options were water or the cokes because everything else was alcoholic. The Heinekan buckets were obvious, but I almost got the little strawberry drink which was alcoholic and the little orange bottles weren't clear either. Then we came back to the villa. I am extremely sore - I'm going to have to really stretch out or I won't be able to move my legs tomorrow at all :/. I think walking 4 miles on Tuesday, 7 miles on Wednesday, and then playing volleyball today probably did me in, but "when in Scandicci..." ;) Goodnight/Good Afternoon everyone. I'll let you know about the falcons tomorrow...