Today began with a buffet breakfast. There was scrambled eggs, bacon, fresh fruits, an assortment of pastries, an assortment of juices, cold cuts, and yogurt. Unfortunately Nat did not sleep a wink all night and got up at 7am to go downstairs to work on her computer. Since there was no symphony of noise coming from her, i slept soundly for a good seven hours. (I can't wait for James to accompany us in London. I'm sure the whole orchestra will be heard each night from the both of them - oh goodie, surround sound for me!)
Last night we had loosely decided not to attend the first meet and greet. It was a buffet brunch and I'm not really into buffets unless it's a buffet of sashimi -mmm...i miss that so much right now...And to be very honest, we had met some of the Reggio participants that are staying in the same hotel as us and I'm not a big fan of theirs. Maybe I'm just a snob or maybe I'm having way too much fun making fun of Nat, i mean writing my blog that i basically just keep to myself. But majority of the people we've met seem too pretentious and full of themselves. Everyone is throwing around what rank they are in the field of ECE. This is not my cup of tea. It's a long and difficult story to explain so I'll leave it at that. The people here seem to have found "God"; they worship Reggio. Now, i know i have travelled half way around the world myself and have, since i started in this field, been very interested and intrigued with this philosophy, but by no means do i think this is it; this is the one and only way to teach children. Okay enough with this tone, it's time to recap the highlights of today!
Sadly, not much happened today except we missed everything. So, as i was saying, we had loosely decided not to attend this buffet aka our first meet and greet. I've been dying to see what Angela (the liaison between Reggio and North Americans) looks like. I picture her to have dark curly/wavy hair with very fair skin and glasses and on the heavier side. I'll report back tomorrow to see if i was right! Nat wasn't feeling so great this morning and my desire not to go made us leave the hotel late - we left our hotel at around 11:50am when the bus was leaving the meeting spot at noon. As we casually strolled along the main street in Reggio, we soon began to realize that 95% of the shops were closed because it was a Sunday! With only two minutes to go before the bus was scheduled to leave, we raced to the meeting spot only to get there 10 minutes after. As we approached the big parking lot, we saw a bus pull out. Now picture this, two Canadians running with their arms waving like mad towards the big bus, the bus slowly and hesitantly stopped. We asked if the bus was for the tour but it was just their regular Reggio transportation and no tour. We had missed the bus! Darn it! We then strolled back to the closed shops area and found a nice restaurant for lunch. We made reservations for 2pm and went back to the hotel for a short snooze and then meandered back out. We had it all planned out - we were going to have ample time to consume a delicious homemade meal at the first original Reggio restaurant ever opened in this town. After this delicious meal we had plenty of time to have a tea. Then we realized we were running late again!!! We ran to the meeting place again and looked around. There was no bus, no large group of tourists...we missed our second attempt to a group event! We missed the city walking tour! We dragged our feet off this deserted parking lot and decided to make up our own walking tour when we bumped into one of the five tour groups! We finally made it and note, this is a tour that was already paid for with our tuition money and entitled to. We weren't being cheap this time! We learned a few facts here and there and left the group about an hour after.
Oh, but the biggest lesson learnt today was that Nat can shop even if the stores are closed! OMG! Window shopping is even more boring then the actual thing!
Today was a very uneventful day and hopefully tomorrow I will have more stories to share. Time for bed as our first class begins tomorrow and we all know that we can't be late for that! Wish us luck!
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