colds and achiness and sore throats

last night i went to bed with a terrible cold and achiness. i was a little better this morning . . but now morgana has a sore throat and is not feeling very well. we normally go ice skating on friday mornings, but morgana will have to stay home. she has an interview in sturbridge village saturday afternoon for their summer intern program. she and greg are supposed to drive up saturday morning. they'll go right to sturbridge and then stay with my sister for saturday night.

it was a grey, rainy day, and morgana broke three dishes! (i think this breaking of pottery and glass is catching!) she and chanda worked on math and latin and italian. after having soup, morgana went to ballet, but came right home rather than going to chorus. (sigh) she probably shouldn't have gone because she felt worse when she got home . . , while she was gone, and before her own chorus class, chanda practiced the song she's doing with her repertory group for the string stravaganza at third street music school saturday morning.

last night they sang along with an italian tape from the library. they were remembering some of the italian songs their teacher marta taught them several years ago.

one of them is about an elephant swinging on a spider web:

un elefante si dondolava
sopra il filo di una ragnatela
e ritenendo la cosa interessante
andò a chiamare un altro elefante.

due elefanti si dondolavano
sopra il filo di una ragnatela
e ritenendo la cosa interessante
andarono a chiamare un altro elefante . .

in english:

an elephant stood on the web of a spider.
she felt it was strong, it couldn't be tighter.
along came her friend. She called to invite her.
two elephants stood on the web of a spider.

two elephants stood on the web of a spider.
they felt it was strong, it couldn't be tighter.
along came their friend. They called to invite her.
three elephants stood on the web of a spider.

three elephants...
etc....