I am an English teacher and student of the Italian language currently teaching in Perugia, Italy for the company Angloville. I am working here for the week and writing about my trip in both English and Italian. My Italian is bad so expect lots of mistakes/Itenglish so don’t hesitate to correct me.

That late night bitch came back to bite me in the arse. We went to sleep at 12.30am and woke up at 7.30pm. Not enough sleep at all. After breakfast it was time for my group of lads to finish their presentation. They smashed it out the park. And even afterwards little Ema came up to me said ‘grazie a te, non ho embarrazzato per parlare inglese –‘ or thanks to you, I am no longer embarrassed to speak English. Very sweet.

At 11.10, it was time for our first conversation session of the day which was all about friendship. It went so well that I can’t even remember anything interesting to mention. Oops. At least this will be easy to translate later on. Actually that’s a lie. After we exhausted the material, I taught the kids how to play blackjack.

At lunchtime, Izzy threw in a curveball of a new game: assassins. We were all secretly given a participant’s name, an item and a location. If we could trick the named participant into taking an item from us by the location, we’ve killed them and won. For example, I had to trick Ming into taking a fork from me by a bench.

Everybody instantly became paranoid. Tricky Nicky started filling everybody’s cups to the brim with water. But if I took the cup and drank from it, then I would die instead. I asked Andrea C, how do I say drinking straw in Italian: Canuccia? Then I asked the server for a drinking straw. Genius.

After lunch, it was free time and we i.e everybody but the Americans went down to the pool to bitch about the Americans. Nick got into some drama with Anayja. During the morning conversation session, he had time off, but our room was being cleaned. He waited in the entertainment room which was where Anayja wanted to do her conversation session. She very rudely kicked him out. All very dramatic.

At 3, our bitch session was over and we had to get back to work with the next conversation session which was all about school life. To make things more interesting, I asked the kids to cancel a subject from their curriculum, some said history and maths. Others said ancient Greek or Latin. Crazy that the kids are learning ancient Greek or Latin in school. What subject would you cancel from your curriculum?

At 4, we our mini-project presentation which was to create our new fashion-brand. I had two competitive boys – Sam and Pietro who had no desire to work with the two weaker girls – Ana and Matilde. Like I have said before, I strongly suspect that Ana is on the spectrum and Matilde has cerebral palsy. I wonder if this is coupled with some type of social anxiety. She is so nervous about speaking at all, let alone in English.

The boys soon became impatient and snapped at Ana who snapped back. It almost turned physical. But the boys didn’t particularly want to include them until Sam unhelpfully told Matilde to draw a girl’s outfit. When she was completely lost, I found a picture online she could copy.

During the actual presentation, I think some of the other girls might have been laughing at Ana and Matilde trying to speak. I was trying to encourage them to talk so I was only semi-aware of it, but it still wasn’t nice. Although I was told later, they might have just been giggling in general.

Anyway, some snack and free time later, it was pizza for dinner. Always the best time. Also during dinner, I let Michael kill me which made him happy. I literally saw him put his water bottle in the fridge. Afterwards he asked me to find it for him lol.

At 8.30, it was time for our final evening activity where we had to make a Jet2 holiday tiktok reel. Thankfully, my group had 3 strong speakers in Alex(ander the Great,) Alessia (the guitarist) and Maya (the writer) but also I had the kids who actually use Tiktok unlike Victoria’s group. Unfortunately, I also had Pietro but it is what it is.

Our Tiktok was quite funny. In the afternoon, the entertainment room was locked by accident and nobody could get into it. Alex filmed I and Pietro banging on the door, begging to be let in then we fell over and started rolling in the stony dirt for whatever reason. From there, we had a shorter conversation session about money including whether the juniors prefer saving or spending money. What do you prefer?

What was next? Bedtime. Although Nicky and the non-Americans were having another late-night bitch, I was too tired to join them. That’s the end of day 6 of my Italian trip. A day of heated conversations, jet2 holidays and assassins.

Purtroppo, questa lamentosa nell notte ritardo ha tiornato con una vengenzia. Mi sono alzato alle 7.30. No ho dormito per lungo abbastanza ma è cosi.

Allora, dopo il colazione, era la volta per il mio gruppo di ragazzi per finire I loro presentazione. Erano benissimo. Dopo, Ema m’ha detto ‘grazie a te, non ho embarrazzato piu per parlare inglese.’ Che carino.

Alle 11.10, era la volta per il primo sessione conversasionale per il Giorno. L’arggomento? Friendship. Il sessione era niente di speciale ma dopo abbiamo finito, ho insegnato gli adolscenti com’e giocare blackjack.

Alle Pranzo, izzy ha introducato il nuovo gioco eccitante: Assassins. Scremente, abbiamo ricecuto il nome di participante, un cose e un luogo. Se we could trick il participante prendere il cose by the location, we would have killed them and won. Per essempio, ho dovuto ingannare King Ming prendere un forchetta vicino una panca.

Tutti ha diventata paranoici. Tricky Nicky ha cominciato filling la tazze di tutti to the brim con l’aqua. Ma se prendo la tazza per bevere, sono morto. Invece, ho chiesto Andrew C, come si chiama ‘drinking straw’ dopo ho chiesto il staff per una cannuccia. Molto intelligente.

Dopo Pranzo, abbiamo avuto il tempo libero e tutti senza gli americani ha una lamentosa di gli americani. Nick avuto di drama con Anayja. Piu presto, ha avuto di tempo libero ma la nostra camera era pulire quindi ha aspettato nella ping pong room quello Anayja ha volute parlare con la sua gruppa.  L’ha detto, ‘devi partire.’ Molto maleducatto. Molto dramatico.

Alle tre, abbiamo dovuto tornare alle lavorare. Il nostro sessione di conversasion di la scuola. Ho chiesta gli adolscenti quello sujetti, annullerebbero di curriculum. Hanno detto ‘historia o maths. Gli altri hanno detto ‘greek or latin.’ Perchè gli adolescenti studiare latin o greechia in scuola? E tu? Quello sujetto in scuola cancelleresti.

Alle quattro, era il tempo per il nostro ‘mini-project presentations.’ Abbiamo devuto creare ‘a fashion brand. Ho avuto due ragazze molti competitive – Sam and Pietro. E ne vogliono lavorare con Ana e Matilde. Come ho detto primo, Ana e autistica e Matilde ha cerebral palsy. Forse social anxiety anche. È molto nervoso per parlare Italiano al meno inglese.

Allora, presto I ragazzi hanno diventato impazienza con Ana e ha gridato alle lui. Ha gridato in ritorno. I ragazzi non li compresa a le fina Sam ha detto Matilde disegnare il vestito per ragazze. Molto aiutamente. Quando ha trovato questo molto difficile, ho trovato l’imaggio online quello potresta copy.

Duranta la presentazione, penso che gli altre ragazze hanno ridato alle Matilde e Ana ma non sono sicuro. Allora, non era simpatico.

Allora era tempo per cenare. Pizza! Bono. Anche, durante la cena, permesso Michael to kill me. L’ho visto mettere la bottiglia di acqua nello frigerifero e m’ha chiesto ne trovare.

Alle 8.30, era la volta per la nostra activita di Giorno. Abbiamo devuto fare un ‘jet2 holiday tiktok reel.’ Gratuitamente, ho avuto un gruppo molto forte in Alex (ander the great) Alessia qui suona la chitarra, Maya (the writer) e Pietro ancora..è cosi. Ma piu fortunamente questi adolescenti usano tiktok. Non com’e il gruppo di Victoria.

Il nostro tiktok era molto divertene. Nello pomeriggio, il ping pong room era chiuso e chiave accidentamente e l’ingresso non permettere. Quindi Alex filmed Io e Pietro ‘banging on the door, begging to be let in.’ E dopo, no so perchè, Pietro ha detto, dovremmo buttarci a terra e rotolarci nella polvere. Era divertente ma stupido. Dopo, era la volta per il l’ultimo conversasione per il Giorno: soldi. Ho chiesa gli adolscenti, preferiscono saving or spending money? E secondo te?

E Adesso? Andare il letto. Ero troppo stanco per un altro lamentose con Nicky etc. E tutto per il Giorno 6 di il mio viaggio Italia: il Giorno di argomentazioni, jet2 holidays e assassini.