Our First Assigment-Day 10

We actually had to do homework last night because we had to give our first group presentation this afternoon. The 25 of us are divided into four groups: The boundaries, the relations within the boundaries, the relations across the boundaries and the stories about the boundaries. In the context of where we are studying, this focuses on the Italian minority in Slovenia and the Slovene minority in Italy, with the ethnic boundary the boundary of focus.

I am in the Relations Across the Boundary group, so we focused on discrimination and ethnic conflict for both minority groups. Slovenes in Italy are less fortunate than Italian in Slovenia because of multi-ethnic acceptance and legal protection for the Italian minority.

So, we all had to give 30 minute presentations. It was not so bad. No problem.

After that 2.5 hours (technical difficulties), we were released for the day. We started at 1:10, and I figured we would be done by 3, so I only had a coffee just before because I had a big breakfast. I was so hungry by 3:45 when we were done, so Meichen and I went back to Guiseppe Cafe and ate a ton of food for Lunner. I had vegie soup, turkey filet and fruit salad. The soup was amazing, with a light vegie broth with carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, peas, onion and basil. The turkey roast was not as great, but still good. It was three pieces of turkey breast, which were rather dry, olive polenta (polentas good, olives made it taste funny, though), and grilled cucumber and eggplant (which I didn't eat) and sliced tomato and oranges (which were good). The fruit salad was epic. It was a couple layers of canteloupe, topped with strawberry and vanilla ice cream, surrounded with kiwi and pineapple, and topped with whipped cream and diced pineapple and melon.

So full. Still, an hour and a half later.

After, we stopped by the market. I bought cookies, pineapple and Qtips. Their Qtips are ear shaped, with a large bulp and a little tip. Like awkwardly shaped boobs. I'll post pictures. They're awkward looking, but they get the job done.