Had a Great Time!

12May07

It’s a little late to post this, but anyway:

After Easter in Italy there’s a Monday, called Pasquetta, during which Romans are used to go out and have lunch in the countryside. We went out to Valleranello, at my cousins’ house, with so much meat we could feed the whole neighborhood (i came back home with more meat than i arrived with… ).

Since i was preparing for an exam, i arrived there even before Carlo, and i started proclaming proudly my notes to the plants and trees, with no success in teaching them software architecture patterns. Standing in the sun without changing position for one hour gave me the tan i deserved: half red on the right side of the face, half white on the other.

Then Carlo came and we started preparing the house: cutting the grass for the afternoon football match, moving chairs and tables cluelessly, and, most important of all, breaking the grass cutter (how is it called?), so we left the football field as it was: savage and scary.

Our friends came in and we set up the barbecue to cook the large amount of meat we wanted to eat, drinking red wine to refresh our mouths. As always, we had too much things to eat, and we were full very soon.

Now the question is: “What would you do after you ate so much you could explode, and you are drunk to the bone??“

FOOTBALL MATCH!!

The field was ready, our legs not so much, but we played anyway: mixed teams, long grass to soften our falls and german girls fighting in the mud to score a goal (just invented this one… ). This is what i call having fun: in the end we had all our clothes green coloured since the grass was wet and when you started running there was NO other way to stop than sliding on your feet for two meters (do you know skimboard?) and falling on your butt… well, maybe that’s not really having fun, but it was hilarious anyway.

The day ended with guys playing guitar for girls (and girls teaching guys how to play) and having a rest laying at the remaining rays of light.

P. S.: We took a bunch of pictures that day, so if you want to see and feel how we felt that day, you could check out some of that on my flickr page.