Italian senior skip day & getting locked out pt 2

In America, students apply to college at the beginning of senior year. Junior year/first semester senior year are, traditionally, the hardest parts of high school. Once students are accepted to college, they can relax a little bit. Well. Some don't. Others do. And a select few start showing up for school once a week. Students plan senior skip days. Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Etc. To some degree, senioritis is a part of American culture.

In Italy there are 5 years of high school. At the end of the fifth year, all students take a big test and the results of this test determine where they go to university in the fall. The concept of senioritis does not exist. I'm not even considered a senior in Italy. Rude.

Instead of periodic senior skip days, Italian students in the fifth year have one opportunity to go crazy. 100 days before the big exam, it is traditional for the fifth year students to come to school drunk and throw salt at people. I'm not even joking.

This year the principal thought ahead and locked the gates. The students still threw salt and danced in the street and drove by honking. At break we all went outside to stare at them.

School ended at noon for a staff meeting! Ludovica and I took the bus, went to the supermarket to buy prosciutto (pro-shoot-oh otherwise known as ham), and then realized we were LOCKED OUT. And it totally wasn't my fault this time.

Ludovica forgot the keys. Ha. I told you. Nobody's perfect.

It turned out to be quite the photo opp.

Then it started raining...

Mom came home!!!!!!!!!

Today my host mom picked me up from school at 4:30. It's Tuesday so I had History of Art and Religious Studies in the afternoon. Sigh. But she took me on a different/beautiful route home. I have pictures don't worry.

Even with the clouds it was still beautiful.

We pass this countryside everyday on the drive to school but it was nice to actually drive through the hills and see the landscape. Ok hopefully we'll do it again when the weather's better. That's it. Love y'all. Ciao.