Today was the first day of the marathon 10 day Italian exit exams that Olivia gets to take IN Italian. We were early to school and she was confident that all would go well. About 10 minutes into my drive back home I got a frantic text from her: 1. Need my passport for identification and 2. Bring a long sleeve flannel shirt!!! What???? It is 8:00 a.m. and it is already so hot the ac is on high in the car.
Apparently everyone knew that for this occasion you had to dress for the test. In other words there is a dress code...no shorts or shirts without sleeves! They forgot to tell us and some teacher started yelling at Olivia in the hall asking who she thought she was wearing her shorts and summer top! When Olivia looked at the lady with confusion the teacher shot back, "What don't you understand? Do you think I am speaking Arabic?" I guess that remark can be seen as a good thing because she thought Olivia was a native Italian speaker however we were a little worried they wouldn't let her take the exam. To our relief she was the only teacher who had such militant views and Olivia was able to take her exam today in a very cool outfit while her fellow students sweated away with longer sleeves and long pants. Alas, tomorrow she will conform.
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