Spring semester finals passed with minimal trouble. I found that school in Italy was definitely more demanding than in the US, and it showed in the increased hours I had had to study. Italian class was not as easy as I had originally thought it would be. I could speak it, true, but when it came to the grammar, I was at a disadvantage - it completely baffled me. Not ever having had to worry about conjugations, different tenses, reflexives, direct and indirect objects and so on and so forth before, it was hard forcing myself to learn the language through such a strict system. After a while I got the hang of it, realizing it really wasn't all that different than Spanish.
After spring finals, we had one more week of school in which we did absolutely nothing. The teachers let us goof off in cl
