Calcio, rabbit, and TV

Calcio! 9/16

I went to the Siena football game today (soccer, Calcio)! They have a huge stadium pretty close to where I live, and my host mom Cinzia and her son don't miss a game.  My goal for this week is to find out what the fans chant and sing at the games. They get so into it and I have no idea what it means.  We stood with the rowdy section of the fans which was pretty entertaining.  Its kinda neat, they bring these HUGE flags to the games and wave them around while they cheer, it looks awesome.  I bought a A C Siena shirt today too so I'd be in the right apparel; their colors are black and white.  I bought it earlier before the game and when I came home with it the whole family was SO excited that I had the team shirt! 

Before the game I was very frustrated.  My host mom had bought me and one of the other girls our tickets earlier this week and that was before everyone else from school decided to come to it. She had said she was interested so since my host mom was going to get them I had her get both of ours.  But then after everyone else got their tickets, she decided she wanted to sit with them instead, but didn't really confirm with me that she wasn't going to be meeting up with me ahead of time.  So anyway I couldn't get ahold of her today at all and my host mom couldn't understand that I didn't think my friend would be meeting me, so we walked to the piazza and she kept asking where my friend was and I couldn't figure out any better way to explain that she wasn't coming with me anymore.. GAH. I want to be able to speak so badly! broken Italian is so frustrating when confusing situations come up.

On a different note, I ate rabbit today. Coniglio.  It is actually really tasty.  I've been bold and have been willing to try everything my grandma Carla cooks for me, and I haven't found anything I don't like yet!   She also made this amazing giant plum torte/ cake thingy today as well!   I seriously think she slaves away in the kitchen all day while I'm gone, and then today Cinzia told me that Carla is worried that I don't like her food!  I don't know how she can think that, she and Loriano are constantly pushing more and more food at me and I eat PLENTY at every meal, but when I start to say "basta" (enough) they look at me like I don't like it haha. 

I got excited today because my grandpa was watching Top Gear UK on tv!  I love watching that show back home with Kaleb. Unfortunately, however, it is not very funny when dubbed over in Italian that I don't understand : (   That is something they do all the time over here.  They take all these American or British shows and dub over them in Italian. It always sounds like the same guy's voice for everything.  It reminds me of having a narrator or something for a play.  Its kinda weird.  

On that note, Italians like very strange game show type programs.  Every night I ate dinner at Cinzia's house they watch some kinda dance competition show, but its like a bunch of women dressed pretty slutty sorta just shaking their asses.  And as far as I can tell, no one seems to ever really win anything.  There's also some strange guy always coming out on stage wearing wigs, dressing like a woman, and singing obnoxiously.  The host then smashes random items over the man's  head and he walks off stage.   

At my grandparents house, Loriano watches more of a game show type thing where they answer questions for money, but that also has really weird characters involved.  They dress up all creepy and come out on stage and ask the questions.  I don't even know if it would really help if I understood Italian better, it would still be weird either way…