We enjoyed a pretty good week. We were looking forward to getting paid on Monday, unfortunately we didn't get paid until Friday but it's cool because our landlords know that it's common place in Italy not be paid on time. It's also the norm to only be paid once a month, which is slightly disconcerting.
The ups and downs:
Starting with the downs. I (Charles) was on a train home one day after work and suddenly it just stopped in the middle of the tracks. This isn't all that strange but after 15 minutes the Italians were starting to get restless. After 20 minutes of not moving the train crew sent out a sacrificial lamb to the angry passengers. He told them something which I couldn't understand of course, but the reaction of the crowd told me we weren't going anywhere soon. The Italians starting yelling at this poor guy and I was sitting back trying to understand any words possible and basically watching the show. After an hour, we finally started heading home. Of course, by that time, the bus which I take home was long gone so I had to walk my sorry self home. Woe is me.
The Downs for Allie were that many of her students cancelled on her and so she had to sit around for hours waiting for the next lesson to start. However, she did get paid for the boring hours because the students didn't cancel before the designated time. So, basically she made 24 euro to sit around bored as can be.
The Ups. We got paid! Well, Charles did, Allie gets hers on Monday. It's hard to describe how great is feels to be paid after 4 months of no paychecks.
With our money in hand, we were off to eat some pizza!
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