First week of CELTA course completed...

Well, sort of. As the Italians take May 1st as a bank holiday, and school is closed again today, I've actually only done 3 days of college. Still, it felt like a full week. This course is going to be way hard work, just like I've been warned (approximately one million times). Harder than my degree, though? I'm not so sure.
The course is good and I think I'm going to really like teaching, although it's totally nerve wracking...we went into college on monday and were told we'd be taking a class the following day, with just 24 hours warning...still, I think it's probably good that they drop us in at the deep end like that - no time to get worked up. I've taken 2 classes now - there are 5 of us trainee teachers taking an upper-intermediate english class of about 8 students - great teacher/student ratio!! Standing up in front of them is a bit terrifying, since every lesson we take is assessed and there's a trainer sitting at the back taking notes the whole time, but it's fun and the standard of english is actually quite good, so we can do interesting things.

My housemates in our hallway - we don't have a living room so we're trying to improvise
I'm living in a flat with 2 guys, one from Canada and one from Bristol. They're cool and we get on well.

There's another girl and a guy in a college flat just down the road, so we've been hanging out quite alot.

Yesterday there was a fantastic, free, open-air concert in the piazza outside San Giovanni church, which is just one block away from our apartment, so we went down there at about 4pm.

It was great - all the italian youth really letting their hair down, great (italian) bands, singing, dancing, lots of beer drinking, climbing up lampposts, etc. (One of our students, an older Italian lady, had told us it was 'like Woodstock'...weren't too disappointed!)And all in a historic square with a huge, ornate church overlooking the whole event. Surreal.