Saturday started off as another crazy busy day for us. I knew that Matt would have a tour today, but did not realize that his group would be so huge. As soon as we opened, 50 English speakers walked into the store. I was in the back studying and decided to pop my head out to see if I could help with anything. As soon as I got behind the counter, I could smell this horrific odor. Someone apparently stepped in some dog pooh outside and tracked it all through the store. I waited until Matt finally was able to gather the group outside before I started cleaning up. I tried to close the door so no one would come walking through it, but Don Antonio told me to open them. I of course had to clean up the mess, because Mattia was busy doing nothing again. I tired to thoroughly clean the floor, but Don Antonio again stopped me. A few minutes later Cecilia showed up and picked up where I left off. Such is the life of a volunteer. Always doing the tasks that no one else really wants to do.
About 15 minutes after I finished, I heard another English group outside. I already knew that they would want me to give them a tour, especially since Cecilia offered the teacher one. I was actually happy to give this tour. They were a group of college students doing a study abroad, something I know much about. It was a small group and their teacher stopped me at almost every fresco to talk more about it. I really was thinking to myself if he knew all of this stuff, why did he want me to give the tour. He explained afterwards that it would have been better to hear an explanation from someone form their own country. It was almost as if he read my mind.
The weirdest thing actually happened to me and my group during the tour. I was about to explain the chapel of St. Gregory and the fresco of St. Francis of Assisi when some random guy, not in the group, opened the window looking down into the rose bushes outside and made some weird howling noise. It threw me completely off, and my group could not stop laughing. I just told them that I had no idea what that was and tried to continue with the tour.
In the afternoon Matt, Cecilia, and I played another game of scrabble. I of course won again. I don't want to sound cocky or anything, but I am really good at scrabble regardless of the language. I am starting to get better and better with the language because I speak less and less English everyday. Cecilia, Don Luigi, and Clara force me to do so, which I appreciate.
First of all I must write this down as an opening. At dinner tonight the discussion about taking blood was brought up. I know what some of you are thinking; why would we be talking about getting blood drawn. Well Don Heriberto is going to the doctor tomorrow for a check-up. He is nervous, but Don Luigi said it would only be something like them asking you to pee in a cup. Anyway, Mattia of course had to chime in. He obviously said something ridiculous again and Don Carlo didn't let that one slide. He asked Mattia, "Tu Sei Stupido"? Translation: Are you stupid. I laughed so hard that I almost choked on the food that I was eating.
Today was another hectic day in the shop. It first started out with Cecilia actually being late to open the shop. Normally Matt and I would do it, but we had to go to mass at 9. Luckily by the time mass was over, Cecilia had opened the shop. I thought that most of the people who were at mass would just leave, but it seemed like each and every one came into the shop trying to buy something. Luckily Matt and I can handle ourselves very well alone in the shop. I was very shocked by how many people I saw in the morning considering the schedule was completely empty. We had a few tours in Italian that were given by the other tour guide down at Santa Scholastica. A little side note; this tour guide is a pretty cute girl that Matt has kind of fallen for. Cecilia tried to warn us about the type of girl she is, but Matt still has the hots for her. The only thing is that he is shy and doesn't want to approach her. Cecilia even tried to force him into talking to her, being the match-maker she is, but still Matt hasn't talked to her. He kept telling her he will do it some other day.
In the afternoon when I made my way to the store I was bombarded by at least 100 kids. Again this wasn't on the schedule and I knew this would be a very long afternoon. They all rushed into the store wanting to buy this and that. I was fine with it, but the problem was that we were running low on change, that's how many kids there were. We had to go to the vending machines twice to get some extra change. One little girl actually pulled a fast one on me. I didn't know the price of some item she had and was going to go check the price, but she said it was 2,50. I foolishly believed her and rang it up. I checked later and saw that it was actually 3,50. I am not too worried about it though, because I know things will work out in the end.
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