winding down

Wow it's been a while since I've updated my blog! Sorry!! The last few days have been relaxing. No beach. No school. No walking around all day. We've just been relaxing and watching some movies. (I saw The Notebook in Italian! It was awesome! Lol)

At night we still head out to go to the center of town, but I have fun when we go out! Her friends know when I'm leaving now, and I think they're getting a little sad (I know I am). They keep asking me will I remember them when I get back to America (awww!!) I say"how can I forget you!?

So, a few days ago my host family and I went to Bari to do a little shopping. Well, I don't think "little" really justifies the shopping I did :/! On the bright side, though, I got a lot of cute shirts and a purse!

Now I only have a week left in Matera and I think about how time has really flown. When I left Chicago at the end of June I was nervous and a little sad about leaving, and now I'm sad about leaving Italy! How ironic, right? As time is quickly winding down I keep asking myself "Where will I get some good gelato now?!" Lol


Until next time, Arriverderci! :)

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life in matera

I've been with my host family for almost a week now, and I couldn't be having more fun! Everything is so beautiful here just like I thought it would be.
So far I've met a lot of my host sister's friends, and they are all so nice and they ask me everything about Chicago and America.

My host mom makes theeee greatest pasta!! She doesn't know english at all, so when she talks to me I need my host sister around to translate! My host dad is hilarious! I have no idea what he's talking about half of the time, but his gestures are always so funny!

In the past four days, I've been to the beach more than I've ever been in my life. It's fun though, and I'm really getting a good tan (like I need one).
Well, so far, I'm having the time of my life here in Matera, Italy. The food is good, the people are nice, and the sales in these shops are amazing!

I couldn't have asked for a better host family either. My host sis is cool and she tells me everything about Matera and takes me out everywhere. We made a deal with each other when I got here: I speak to her in english and she speaks in italian so we can learn the other language a little better. Right now our mutual language is french so if we really want to have a conversation, that's what we speak!

Until next time, Arriverderci :)

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my photos

I have taken hundreds and hundreds of pix and I'm putting them on Flickr slowly but surely. See the link to my pix on the left of my blog. Keep checking back because there are many more to come!!

Until next time, Arriverderci! :)

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