Benvenuti!

Welcome! I'm a high schooler from the US who will be leaving shortly to spend six months studying abroad in Italy as an AFS exchange student. Hopefully it will be a chance to learn the language, appreciate good food, good art, and good music, and learn how to live life like an Italian!

There isn't much to report yet...

Other students are starting to hear about their host family placements, so hopefully I'll be finding out soon! I was totally wrong about second semester students being placed in the south - everyone I've heard about has been placed in the north- so there go the dreams of escaping New England winters.

Learning Italian is coming along, albeit slowly. It's at least very amusing to make up new ways to practice- I think the people who pass me while I'm walking George might think I'm crazy, because I've started reading the numbers off of license plates to try to process their names faster. I'm counting on at least being able to follow what's going on in math class... And most recently, I've finally found a way to make use of the fifty-five minutes I spend every day translating Vergil with Mr. De Boo - a new Italian journal! Unfortunately my vocabulary and grammar are so limited right now that no one will ever be allowed to read it to tell if I'm actually writing things correctly. Hopefully eight months from now I'll be able to recognize all the grammar mistakes on my own.