About Me

April 21st 2020: I have learned quite a bit about myself during quarantine. Some of these are things that people have told me and I never accepted and others are totally new!

• I love spoilers. My sister, mom, friends (anyone who has ever watched a show or movie with me) would always tell me to stop asking questions during the viewing because they didn’t know what was happening either. I’ve been known to bribe people to tell me what happens in movies and then once I know what will happen, I finish it! Maddie and I used to watch movies together and at the beginning she would say to me “Abs, this is my first time seeing this too, I don’t know anything about it so don’t ask.” I thought everyone in my life was exaggerating but on Day 40 something of quarantine I was scrolling through my search history trying to find a recipe. Without anyone here to answer my never ending questions and with all the time I have to watch bad tv, my search history was full of ‘what happens in —-, do Lola and mark get together, what happens in season 6.’ Once I know what will happen I have no issue with watching it….as evidenced by Mamma Mia!
• I love people. In class we had an exercise about ‘le nostre priorità’ and mine were all about family and friends. I’ve also learned that my people help me to hold myself accountable. Setting up a Skype workout helps me to actually do it at a certain time and check it off. Teaching my friend how to cook over FaceTime forces me to make what I had planned to do and not use up all our groceries trying things out.
• Reflection helps. I saw this awesome idea online where you make two lists and add to them each day. The first side is things you are grateful for during this time and the second is things you took for granted before. I add two or three a day and am loving it! Some examples: FaceTime Hallmarks with my mom, a cup of tea, laughing on the phone with a friend. These are all on my grateful side. On my for granted: making s’mores and laughing at the campfire, singing in the kitchen while cooking with my dad (Babbo!!!), driving my friends (of all ages!!) in the Mamma Mia Mobile. This has been a really fun way to remember very specific things that made me happy and I will have this list once I am able to do them again so hopefully I will enjoy them so much more knowing that I thought of them during quarantine. I encourage everyone to try this!!!

In other news: during class we learned the four tenses of the Subjunctive! To help us understand the difference, the teacher asked us questions and we had to respond in the chat. All of my answers were about mamma mia! because that’s how I understood the tenses. At the end of this activity, my classmates answers were also about mamma mia! and the teacher decided we should all watch mamma mia! together in Italian some time. My work here is done.