So last week: Monday was hard. We did three back to back sketch shows and workshops, with only 5 minute breaks in between. We were also set in a corridor, and in the middle of our last sketch the janitor opened the double doors behind us, allowing cold air to blow in and almost knock our curtain over, and students and parents started exiting the school, right through our curtain! Yikes. Not our best day. The school closed early and wanted to squeeze 3 shows in, but it was just difficult. Tuesday we also did three sketch shows (guh) BUT they went so well! The kids loved them and the workshops just flew by because the kids were totally into it. Wednesday morning we had sketch in the morning, then a 1.5 transfer to Bologna for the Oxford Conference. It was a conference about, well, I'm not sure. But Theatrino had a booth there, and we were supposed to do 2 sketches. We got there at 12:30 even though the show wasn't supposed to start until 2. And the guy in charge said they were running behind and said we'd have to start late. Which we did. And halfway through our performance, he walks on stage and motions for us to wrap it up! So ridiculous. We finished our show, but as soon as we were off stage they started introducing the next speaker and we just collected our props and speaker and slipped away. So bizarre. We were annoyed. Which is why we LEFT OUR SPEAKER IN THE PARKING LOT. Idiots. We got to our school on Thursday morning, started unloading our stuff, and said, who has the speaker? No one. Because we left it in the parking lot. In Bologna (an hour away). Luckily the school had an amazing sound system. Backing up--after the Oxford Conference we went to Bologna for some sight seeing. It was really beautiful. We were only there for a few hours, but had a nice walk around, did some window shopping, and had a nice dinner. Lasagna alla bolognese. In Bologna. Mmm. It's known as the Fat City. Good thing I didn't stay for long :-) After Bologna we drove to Cesena to our favorite B&B Mama Ro!! We were so excited to see Lucky they dog, but on arrival learned he'd been poisoned just the day before. SO sad. But we had a glass of wine with Carlo and Mama Ro made us our favorite cake. Mm. We were in a really nice school on Thursday and Friday, doing fairy tales! Hooray! We did three Wizards on Thursday. Caroline and I switched roles in the last show because we couldn't handle doing the same thing 3 times in a row. I was Dorothy and she was scarecrow. We decided right before we went on. Ha. Then we did 3 Robin Hoods on Friday. So many Robin Hoods. But it is our favorite. We also got free lunch in the school cafeteria. On Thursday we had the best pesto pasta I've had since being in Italy, followed by some amazing beef dish of sorts. Friday we had pasta, followed by calamari. That's right. Calamari. In the school caf. And it was GOOD. It was also served on real plates. To 7 year olds. And they all waited patiently for their tables to be served before they ate. So civilized.
Friday night we drove to Rimini, which is a beach town! Right on the sea! We performed for an ACLE conference on Saturday. We went out Friday night in the center. There were so many cute little bars! Then we had a great breakfast in our posh hotel on Saturday morning, followed about 2 hours later by an AMAZING and ridiculously heavy lunch. Then we had to perform. Ha. The conference was full of teachers and we did some warmups with them. We performed a scene from Robin Hood and a sketch called Dr. Doolittle and they went really well! The teachers loved us! Which was good because Arigo, the creator of ACLE was there. Also between lunch and the performance we went to the beach to play frisbee. It was warm enough to take off my shoes. Mmmm. SO nice. It was just so fun to be barefoot on a sandy beach playing frisbee. Then after the conference we set off on our 4 hour drive to ROMA. Yippee. We have no sketches this week, which we're so excited about. But a lot of English Days. Wednesday I get to be locked in a room with 5 year olds who barely speak Italian, teaching them English for 2 hours. Yeahhhhhh.
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