Irksome
Now that you live with them long enough, you’ll notice a handful of irritating habits that you’re just uncomfortable with. To list a few:
1. My laundry is done once every 2 weeks, but my host siblings got theirs done in 3 days. Not that I’m not thankful, but 2 weeks is quite a long-long time, and I’m running short of underwares.
2. When you’re watching Titanic on TV (in Italian, tsk tsk), your host sibling will be flipping through the encyclopedia (Internet is quite a luxury here, in my house) and gasp…’Mama mia! About (i’ve forgotten the figures) died in this tragedy,’ etc etc. This lasts until the ship is about to hit the iceberg then only they shut up for the first time in 2 hours. Honestly, do you do that in the cinema?
3. When you’re listening to Laura Pausini (Italian singer, comparable to Celine Dion), your host Dad will be shouting from one end of the house to another for your host Mum because the window in the bathroom is not shut. Later, your host brother go into your host sister’s room to tease her, and she shouts as if she saw an alien emerging from under her bed. After that both your host Mum and host Dad will be scolding him, and by the time everyone is quiet the CD ends.
4. When you tell your host sister you’re thinking about getting a haircut this afternoon, she has to take 17 hours to deliver that message to your host Mum and Dad. Not that the translation job is difficult, but she was talking about, I believe, other issues more important in the family i.e. who should do the dishes after this, what’s the answer for the question in the TV game show.
5. Your host sister is away to Rome for 4 days, when she comes back she spend 6 hours imitating how the person giving a speech during a congress she attended wave his hands, speak in an extreme falsetto, and how the crowd remarked. Well, you can do that, but not to the extent of standing up on the chair and holding a real microphone right?
6. There’s this ad. on TV, and everytime it’s showed your host sister will repeat what the boy in the ad. said after drinking the milk, with her voice an octave higher. This doesn’t just apply for the milk ad., but also the detergent ad., the supermarket ad. and the car ad.
