Hey guys!
So since i wrote last its been about a month and quite a few things have happened since then. Not in the sense that events ahve happened, but a lot of changes have occured and a lot of my opinions have changed. Or maybe my ideas have been changing all these past months, but im just noticing them now. When i got back from Paris, it was really hard to get back into my life here. Id been with americans for a little over a week, and just being around my own culture kind of took me out of this one. It made it really hard for me to want to come back to Italy and continue with this last stretch. I'm not really sure what my feelings are on these last months though to be honest. I'm having a lot of fun now, yet at the same time I miss my family and friends at home too. I only have about seven and a half weeks left, which seems so soon, yet so far. These past two months, I've made really good friends and now the fun is just beginning. At the beginning it was hard because I didn't speak a word of the language, and I didnt know the social customs, therefore making friends was really hard. After a while though it got better, and I branched out more. Now I'm having much more fun, especially since the weather is getting much better. I'm so lucky to have been placed in Sicily because the weather here is amazing and I live almost 10 minutes from the beach by bus. Once school lets out, my friends and I can go to the beach all the time. Although now school is getting much tougher. At the start, I wasnt required to do much because I had no idea what they were saying, but now because I do understand I take part in the lessons. Which I actually prefer becuase sitting in a classroom for 5 hours a day with nothing to do can get a little boring. So now Im participating in classes, which gives me something to do, yet now it gives me something to stress about too. We have to do interrogations, and I have a few coming up. I'm also participating in an event Palermo apre le porte (Palermo opens the doors), which is where students go to different historical sites and give tours of the sites. So i've been preparing for that as well. These last three and a half weeks of school are going to go by pretty slow though because of all of the work that has to be done, and how close we are to the end of school. Thats how it always is though, whenever you look forward to something it always takes forever to get to that point. But to make it go by I've planned something for every weekend to get me through it.So I hope these next three weeks go by at a decent pace. The sad thing about wanting time to go by is that it will. By the time school is out I will only have four more weeks left, which is a sad though. I have gotten so accustomed to life here, it's going to be wierd going back. So in some ways I want to be at the end of school but in other ways I dont. Well Im gonna go its late and I have school tomarrow morning bright and early!
a dopo,
olivia