Super Sunny Sunday

It was the hottest day of my life. That's probably not true but today I walked all the way to Rubiera, a "nearby" town under the blaring heat of the unforgiving sun...it is definitely as dramatic as it sounds; and that's why I will deem today, the hottest day. My throat was so dry and with no room on the itsy bitsy skinny streets for pedestrians it was slightly terrifying. There was a good 6 inches between me and any passing car.....I know I exaggerate a lot, but I'm serious...it was either 6 inches our less. So of course to not freak out and give up on my trip to Rubiera I sang Adele songs and songs I made up about dying... very loudly and badly for a whole hour on my trip there...I was so thirsty, I got there and downed a coke, a water, and a frizzy water back to back.  
    Oh  wait before my adventures today however, I woke up at six today to say goodbye to Lisa and it was wayyyy toooo early to be sad :(...but i'm saadd.
I wrote her a note with games to play and random stuff...like pictograms and pick up lines to use. .you must know how long and horrible Italian train rides can be in order to understand what a great gift I gave hahaha ;)
Ok so I woke up thinking we were doing strawberry stuff today but really that's tomorrow. Today was free so I actually lied(is it lay?) in bed for 3 hours until I went downstairs and stupidly tried to bike the bike/motorbike that was illegal to use on the streets; one of the farmworkers said i could ride it around on the farm. I was innocently planning to only use the biking aspect of this hybrid jigmajig and I started to bike it with the pedals, when all of sudden it started blaring up and motoring! holy shizz! I was motoring around on the farm until I realized I didn't know how to break. I dug my foot in the ground and jumped off the bike, but it was still going so i just ran along side this bike that was driving away from me. It was like trying to tame and calm down a wild horse...so the farmer guy came and turned it off...very easily. I still want a vespa when I get back though...however traumatizing this experience was. :)

    Anyways I wanted to go shopping at that huge mall/supermarket because it was too hot to be walking outside in Rubiera. It's a super charming city however! It would be really fun if I actual saw people that were outside on the streets...to prove that people were actually living... but it was a Sunday and Italians literally do NOTHING. NO shops are open, maybe 1  out of every 30 shops are open. I was trying to get to the supermarket now because I had already enjoyed the backstreets as much as the heat allowed. I asked some dude where to go...it was apparently in the opposite direction and I started to walk...after 30 minutes I thought I might be fried by the sun and I had no water. The same man I asked for directions stopped on the side of the road. STAY AWAY FROM STRANGERS..my "taken" instincts yelled! "I'm going to Grand Emilia...do you need a ride? I'll take you there." I'm sure this is not close to what he said...he could not have said all this with the less than basic english skills he had.it was so hot that I have no recollection how understood anything. Anyways I said NO right away and he was like "ohh okay" and was about to leave and then I ran after him and was like "Wait OK!"
So I got in and was freaking out as I did, making sure, however I could, to check if this guy would be a weirdo or something...I've never done this test on anyone but I made up my own theories.  I also had my hand on my seat belt the whole time in case I needed to jump out....I had my french teacher in mind the whole time...Once, she got a ride from a creepy stranger and bolted at a stop light. I deeply regretted getting in the car after because I thought of all the ways he could kill me, but seriously.....everything was good. I did my own way of checking up...if there was anything wrong. First of all...scanning the car, I see a baby seat in the back! that's good right?! Then I kept on confirming the direction and talking about where is the market and stuff. Then I ask him about his family... you don't look Italian, where are you from? Sri Lanka. Good you wouldn't be a foreign murder...that's too complicated. Why are you going to the market. Just to buy water. That's a perfectly sensible reason to go to the market. Where is the market now? Right there... he points to the left! YES I"M ALIVE and I was saved from the heat!

God knows, it would have taken me at least an hour or two to get to the market....with all the winding roads and  stuff... I was very thankful. And today I was reminded that not everyone is trying to kidnap and sell people. It's still scary though and hard to know when to trust and if you should trust people, so I think... I will just be aware of signs and be safe but also open. It's very hard actually to be all of this at once hahha, you just have to do what ya gotta do. Anyways I bought drinks, drawing materials, and something else. I can't say what it is just yet...but anyways I bought it. Okay so I've got the fan that used to be in Lisa's room so I am in a good mood. The two wwoofers are coming tonight and I don't know what to expect. I just know now that one is an American girl but she now lives in Rome...weird. We'll see anyways tomorrow.
Good night/day!
<3 Em