Later in the Day

Thank you all for your very nice notes. I really appreciate them. I did talk to my instructor this morning and told her I was having a physical problem which was affecting me mentally and that I was behind on homework.. She was so nice and sympathetic that I actually told her the whole thing and didn’t cry, either!

She had just come back from a trip to Sicily and had the Trip from Hell, apparently. One plane she and her husband were on arrived 10 minutes late so they missed a connection. Then, on the way back, the plane was overbooked and she and her husband were bumped off. AND in addition to that, her luggage was lost on the way back! She said that nothing like this has ever happened on the many many trips she has made to Italy. Oh, and her husband was driving in Sicily and got lost, twice! But apart from that, she had a wonderful time.

We had a new student in class today, yet another person who has been to Italy several times before. I am really struggling with this class. It is not easy to be the class dunce, y’know, {but someone has to do it.} Well, no, I am not the dunce but I am the person who is having the most difficulty understanding spoken Italian. Having said that, I DID ask her to slow down and write some of what she was saying on the board this morning and it helped. But I am not used to being bottom of any class. Still, I am patting myself on the back for not giving up. Believe me when I say I HAVE thought about it and I think about it often, but I am not going to do it. I am taking learning to speak and understand Italian as a challenge of my resolve to try new experiences and not give up when I don’t succeed immediately, something which I have done too much during my life.

Things to do:

about 100 words in Italian about her trip. We discussed it a lot in class. This is due on Thursday
get list of medication to take to the orthopedic doctor tomorrow

On Thursday, I am eating lunch with Carol U., la prof’s friend who went to the same school I am going to. I have a list of questions. This will be at 1 pm after class which ends at 12:45. Then, at 2:30 pm, I am off to meet my new doctor, a resident, at 3 PM. This is Dr. K., the one I chose in place of Dr. Babyface whom as a patient, I have now cast into exterior darkness, so to speak. The only thing I know I am going to have done is the pee-in-a-cup test to check how my happy little solitary kidney is doing. Oh, and I want to discuss with him the idea of getting a prescription for the medications I take to cover two months at a time. I want to get the insurance company time to get used to the idea before I go to Italy.

QUOTATIONS FOR THIS MONTH: Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

I don’t think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

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Ci vedo dopo…. see you later…

TheWoodsprite

February 27, 2007

I’m so glad that went well! Gee, your professor DID have a lot of troubles on her trip. And I had to chuckle at your chagrin over being the class dunce. I was also the class dunce in my advanced German lit classes because of the six of us, four were native Germans and one had taken the language FOREVER. AND I was the dunce in my high school calculus class also….dumbest, out of seven students! Ugh!! So I can relate! hugs, Weesprite

wickedgood

I think it’s great that you don’t give up even though it’s difficult for you. So many people run away from being challenged.

What the above noter said. You have always inspired me.

I admire your motivation. I think it is awesome that you are continuing to try. 🙂

Violet

Wow…we’re so alike in many ways. If I’m the underdog, I always want to give up. Right now, I’m not the TOP of the class, but I’m not the bottom, either, and it still bugs me. Hooray for both of us for sticking with it. And just think, when you get back from Italy, YOU will be that “yet another student who has been to Italy”! You’ll be right back on top again. 😉

Well done you! You can be proud too at not giving up – it takes a lot of will-power. There seems to be such a huge jump between one class and another and of course it all depends on everyone coming back from italy. Guess what – this time next year, you will be the one coming back from Italy and making others feel nervous. 😉 Thank you for your note Patricia. I really appreciate it. I’d somuch like for someone to have ‘the answer’ but life isn’t like that and I have to work it out for myself. One day I hope I will, whichever way it may be.

rapson Hussein michigan

Well what’s the goal for the class? If you are striving towards that goal, or having it draw you towards it, then you are doing quite well, thank you!!! Imagine your life in 1 year, what will it be like and what is this day doing to make it happen. You’re fine and we know it..you will soon. Have fun…dan

VeronicaCorningstone

I’m glad that the professor understood.

Pat

I think it speaks loudly about your character that you are sticking it out even with the obstacles you are facing. I am very proud of you! (((Hugs)))

RYN: My dear friend, I thought you did a very nice thing by trying to help Mike out. I don’t know exactly what he used the money for though. He owes me $200 still and hasn’t paid it. At the moment, he’s with his mother in Kentucky. I can’t be 100% sure that he did cheat on me but I know something is up. He keeps saying it hasn’t cleared though. I’m not upset with you or anything. Please don’t think that. I think you did a kind thing for a friend. If I was in your shoes, I’d have probably done the same. *hugs* 🙂

I’m so glad to hear that your talk with your professer went well. I know that has to give you at least a little peace of mind. I bet your lunch on Thursday will be very interesting. I’m sure she can give you lots of good tips. My niece also has only one kidney. Hers was a birth defect She actually has two but one is about the size of an eraser on a pencil and doesn’t function at all. Hugs, M

Do you have to drink a lot of water because you only have 1 kidney? Excuse my ignorance.