Sicilian specialities: arancini and cannolo

What is same and what is different......

Ok, to be honest, Catania is completely different from Slovakia. In which way? Soooo, for example: people here are so open-minded and friendly. First I thought it is only klise, but it is true! They would go out of their way to help you, to welcome you and everyone in my school wants to be my friend, they invite me to their homes for a dinner, it is amazing!
Secondly, a family is the most important thing here. When somebody has a problem, it is discussed among every single member of a family. And parents need to know everything about their children. When I go out, they need to know when, with whom, where and how and when I will come back. It is extremly important that family has dinner together.
And also big parties at weekends where you can meet like every single member of a family are very usual here.( mamma, papa, nonna, nonno, zia, zio, ciugina......)
I do not want to talk abot food a lot here, because it will make me hungry and I am pretty sure that I would go to the kitchen and make me sth...., but I will do it anyway, so :)
Italians do not eat pasta as a second meal as we in Slovakia do, but as the first meal. This is the first big difference. Then, sicilian food consist of many many many vegetables, fishes and of different kind of seafood. And also sweet cakes are popular among sicilians.
It is good to know that it is impolite when u leave food on your plate. It might mean that u do not like it, and sicilians may be offended:(
Architecture is splendid!!! I cannot discribe it with words, I think it would be better if u have a look at he pixs, which I have posted here.)
The traffic, on the contrary, is awful!! Drivers do not respect the traffic sings and from 2p.m till 9p.m it is sometimes really dangerous at the streets :)
As far as fashion is concerned, girls wear to school only jeans and t-shirt and ....trainers. That's all. Nothing more and nothing less. They dress beautifuly only for Saturday night.
And people warned me before I went to Catania that it is typical for italians to speak very loudly and that I should not panic when their conversation would seem to me as a quarrel....OMG they speak REALLY LOUDLY!!! And when speaking to you, they are very close.
According to a southern way of life, I got used to it! Italians have a lot of time and ALL THE TIME!They seem they are never in a hurry and they are always late. ( exept at schools, there they are punctual)

Just an (extra)ordinary day.....

I have spent an amazing day with my super classmates. After the school we decided to go to the chinese restaurant. We had a lot of fun! We were speaking about the school(OMG I feel so cool when I am able to speak with them about the school staff and everything:)They are incredible. We spent the whole day laughing, italians are having fun all the time!
What I appriciate about my italian friends is their patience. The way they listen to me when I am trying to explain something in italian( trust me, I am trying really hard all the time:)is unbelievable. And when I make a mistake or when I apologize for what I have just said, they always tell me : tranquilla, tranquilla. I cannot translate it, it means something like calm down, do not worry.
Their mentality is just sooo different from ours, I feel it everyday, everywhere..e mi piace!! :D