After a lovely summer living in Fair Oaks and constantly emailing my agent trying to find away back across the pond, I have landed myself a nice little gig playing some volley in Reggio di Calabria, Italy. I arrived really late September 15th and was greeted by Valentina and the President Pasquel. Valentina is like the team manager or something, basically she is like a little Italian polly pocket and I love her. My roomie/teammate Meghan arrived that Friday and we have been adventuring everyday since. Reggio is a great city and I cannot wait to learn this language because barely anyone here speaks english. That does not stop all of the men in cars and vespas who stop to stalk you as you walk down the street. We are constantly shouting "non parlo italiano!" Pretty obvi that means we don't speak Italian. The award for most persistent goes to a couple of supposed lawyers: They asked for our number and we said we didn't have a phone (lie), so they had a solution for that: give us a spare phone that they had! Weird life we are having.
My current method of communication is a combination of english/spanish/italian/sign language. Lucky for us, we have befriended some native english speakers who are teachers here. They are loads of fun and we have leaned on them quite a bit to hang out with.
As for volleyball, I have high hopes for the season. We have only had a couple practices, but with some solid girls they already have and then 3 Americans? We should be set. Since only a couple people at the club can speak english, we are a little confused on what our schedule will be like, but as of now it is looking like this. Monday: weights. Tuesday-Friday: volley 9pm-11. Saturday or Sunday: Game. Our team has been very welcoming and I think they will be a great group of people to be around for the next 9-10 months.
This is such a different culture from Sweden and I am fascinated to learn more about it. I will do my best to keep posting on here to explain the weird, weird, weird day to day encounters....there are already to many from the past week to try and write down.....
My current method of communication is a combination of english/spanish/italian/sign language. Lucky for us, we have befriended some native english speakers who are teachers here. They are loads of fun and we have leaned on them quite a bit to hang out with.
As for volleyball, I have high hopes for the season. We have only had a couple practices, but with some solid girls they already have and then 3 Americans? We should be set. Since only a couple people at the club can speak english, we are a little confused on what our schedule will be like, but as of now it is looking like this. Monday: weights. Tuesday-Friday: volley 9pm-11. Saturday or Sunday: Game. Our team has been very welcoming and I think they will be a great group of people to be around for the next 9-10 months.
This is such a different culture from Sweden and I am fascinated to learn more about it. I will do my best to keep posting on here to explain the weird, weird, weird day to day encounters....there are already to many from the past week to try and write down.....
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