Jeremy's First Day!

I understood about 2%. Today, most of the time was spent with dictated forms and some lists.  There were two nice boys behind me who let me use their books to copy when they were done with them.  However, with the Italian handwriting, half of the letters look legible to us and half of them seem to be just vertical lines that are slightly different from each other, so you have to know the language to know which of the possible letters it is.  On one of the forms, when the teacher was done reading it out, she let me see the original (printed) page to copy, which made it a whole lot easier.  But the boys behind me started out liking me because I was American.  And then when they saw my inlaid pencil case, they were amazed and they started worshiping me.  And so I think you can imagine what happened when they saw my fountain pen!  When I took out my pocket watch, there was a cluster of four or five boys around me. 

We have no homework as far as I know, but we do have to get the supplies on the list and copy the forms to take to the parents (yes, handwritten forms). One printed sheet they gave us to take home to our parents was information about a strike that is Friday, and they don't know what time it is, but parents shouldn't be surprised if their kids come home early.

Love,

Jeremy