the end

Ok, so I've been home a little bit over three weeks now, and I'm sorry for not updating! :(. Adjsuting to life back at home was much easier than I thought it would be (except for the fact that the weight of all my traveling came down on me the next day!) If anything, the food was the most difficult thing to get re-adjusted to, but like all other things, my american appetite finally came back around.

I miss Italy so much, and this was definitely an experience I will remember for the rest of my life! I'm so blessed to have been able to have this kind of opportunity. It's so hard to believe it's over, though. A few months ago, I added friends to my facebook that were apart of the AFS-Italy group and finally getting to meet all of them and become friends with them was great. We had a lot of fun together! I'll never forget my host family either. In the four weeks I spent with them, they became like my own family, and I miss them so much! I'm definitely going to go back to visit them when I get a chance. I also have to start visiting the friends I've made from the AFS-Italy group in places like L.A., NY, and Boston!

Thank you to everyone who contributed to my trip, and thanks everyone who has been following my blog. For those of you going abroad, whether it be to Italy or somewhere else, I hope my blog has insipired you, and you will have as much fun as I did. Make the most of this and I hope you have a great (and safe) time. Enojoy every minute of this wonderful experience, because the time will fly.

I'm so used to saying "Until next time" at the end of my blogs, but sadly my blog and my Italy experience is finito. So...

Arriverderci :)

when in rome....

My last night in Matera was so much fun! Around mid afternoon my host sister and her friends took me to the bar for my goodbye party. Later that night we went on our usual walk of the town, passing by shops, talking, eating, etc, and then my host sister went to her boyfriend's car to get her laptop and showed me the most beautiful slideshow ever!! She and her friends put it together for me and it was pictures that I took from the beginning of my stay in Matera. I cried watching pictures of me with my host sister and her friends go across the screen. It was so beautiful! :)

My leave was very emotional so I won't put all the details here, but now I'm in Rome and back with all the other AFSers! When we got back together it was like we never left each other. We played cards almost all night and told each other everything about our host families! The AFS leaders took us on a tour of Rome and we were allowed to go shopping!!! Now, I only have today left in this wonderful country because my traveling starts at 6 a.m tomorrow. After having such a great summer, I am happy to finally be coming home.


Arriverderci :)

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