Daje!

Here is a little post about a proud moment I had. It also contains a little grammar lesson: 

Last night I had my first spontaneous Roman slang outburst along with a combined pronoun command. Sounds complicated but I said it all without thinking. There were some folks with a dog who had a water bottle in his mouth. They took it and put it on top of the trashcan and told him to wait. I guess it was some sort of trick, but they made him wait for so long. I felt bad for him because he was clearly upset. Without thinking about it I said "Ma daje, daglielo!" Which basically is "Come on, give it  back to him." Daje (pronounced "da-yeh") is the Roman version of "Dai" which means "Come on" or "Go" etc. You'll especially hear it a lot at sports games. "Daglielo" was the other accomplishment because it had the combined pronouns "gli" (to him) and "lo" (it). Usually it takes a bit of thinking to get these right and our homework for Tuesday is 3 worksheets about them. 

 

Today I went to find some new jeans because mine ripped yesterday. I did not end up finding any but I did stumble into the women's protest against Berlusconi. It was really cool to see. I couldn't understand all their chants or signs but they were basically saying that his behavior is disrespectful to  all women and that he is stealing dignity from women. I think they were protesting more than just that, but I will have to wait and try to read about it in the paper tomorrow. Also went to the top of the Spanish steps.

 Here is a picture of a bag of cookies. I thought they looked cute. "Abbracci" means "hugs" in Italian. They were very delicious. On the back they suggested having 5 cookies for breakfast...