Friday night I experienced something very different than what I'm use to...not in a bad way, just different. Simona, Mattia and I headed up to Prato Friday morning. Still no snow on the ground but serious hopes that it was off somewhere in the distance waiting to release it self right over our little mountain! I'm trying to be optimistic here! Its almost February and still no snow. That creates a serious problem for a ski resort. Anyway, after Simona came home I was off to Mondole to meet up with the girls. Come to find out there was a disco going on in the conference room by the pool. Not just any disco...a special disco. :)
Four bus loads of English Autistic, Down Syndrome, and Mentally Retarded kids had come to Prato for the week to ski and snowboard, and at the end of the week they had a disco. It was so awesome to see these kids just shake it like nobody was watching on the dance floor. This one little autistic girl was in the middle of the dance floor just breaking it down. She was so good. The DJ started playing Grease "You're the One that I want" and this one kid John started singing it to Amy. They were going back and forth. It was so funny. Dan, one of the English coach driver's started dancing the Tango with John. That was also hilarious. It was good, because I'm normally the kind of person that tenses up and doesn't know how to act in situations like that. I think I played it pretty cool.
After watching the kids for awhile I went upstairs and had an interesting conversation with one of the Coach driver's named Dutch. Dutch looked like one of those Harley Biker Dude's. During our conversation one of the kids came up and started screaming "2" in Dutch's face. So then he screams back "4". This went on for like 5 minutes meanwhile a group of kids starts surrounding me and Dutch while they're all screaming 2. I'm just standing there wondering what the heck is going on. Amy rescued me from the crowd to tell me that Dutch was the bus driver for bus #4 and the kids were on bus #2. I guess 2 was supposed to be better than 4. I just kind of felt a little awkward standing there being yelled at by the a bunch of kids screaming "2"!! It was pretty funny though.
After the kids went to bed we were all chillin in the hotel lobby with all 4 of us Au Pairs and the 5 Coach driver's. It was so nice to be able to talk to new people in English! I didn't have to try broken Italian. The conversation just flowed. We got on the topic of what Americans and Brits were known for and I almost said that the UK was known for bad teeth. I'm glad I caught myself though because Dutch was probably missing about 5 teeth and the teeth he did have were a nice little shade of yellow. Anyway, it was a good Friday night.
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