Sorry Sorry Sorry... I promise that from now on I will attempt to update you mare regularly.
I have now been in Italy for two whole months. Althought the days seem to be very long the time seems to have just flew by.
I have had my orientation camp with Afs and it was great lots of really kol people. It was great to speak with people who understood everything you wee thinking and feeling. It was also wonderful to hear another New Zealand accent. The camp was in Ceasenatico. There are pictures on my facebook.
Ive alsotravelled Venice with my school were we visited an art exhibition. It was amazing the worlds away from little old Christchurch. It as really funny to see a boat go past saying 5 San Marco just like a bus would.
I am really enjoying my time in Italy and slowly ( very very very slowly ) I am learning Italian.
Short and Sweet
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Written during italian lesson...
Ciao My italian adventure is going really well... Or should i say awesome... Im sorry that none of my posts ever seem to be a literary sucess but im trying and hopefully as the year goes on they wll get better and better... I think if i go through a normal day i may be able to remember all the things i want to say...
Its really weird to go from being very independant to having almost everything done for me... In the moring i get a knock and a soft Shelby instead of the harsh ringing of the alarm clock... My host parents make my breakfast before i even get down stairs.. ( the toast here is nothing like in New Zealand its really hard and crusty but if we look at it in perspective is double hard and crusty since Italian bread is hard and crusty anyway...) Mauro drives me to the bus stop and the bus comes at 6:40 and goes all the way into florence it takes about 30minutes and i then catch another bus into the heart of florence so all in all it takes me about an hour to get to school...
Schol is really kol.. It of corse has ts good and bad bits lol... like anything.. I go to schol from monday to satarday and go from 8 until 2.. We have classes ranging between 1 and 3 hours.. This is different.... Its really good for painting but 2 hours of maths and italian is seriously not kol.. ( both of these teachers are really strict )
If you think of all the clothes that are really gay and wouldnt be caught dead in... Yeah well they are all in fashion here lol.. At the bus stop i saw this guy and he was wering sunshine yellow pants and a purple pocka dotted over sized jersey... not pretty lol...
The teachers here just sit at the front of the class and talk for hours on end lol... In maths the teacher calls out your name and you have to go up and answer a question by yourself on the board... not kol lol.. i hpe i never have to lol..
In the afternon it takes me slightly longer to get home lol... about another half an hour because i dont finish early enough for the first bus... Mirella picks me up from the bus statuion and we come home and have lunch.. Im always really hungary because its almost 4 by the time we get home... and ive had breakfast at 6 and some biscuits at 10...
All the mosquitos are starting to die now... YES!!! Die suckers die...
When it rains in florence it really rains lol... Like when you watch in movies and there in the jungle were theyre like drenched in seconds by these big fat and heavy raindrops thats how it rains here...
Something i find hard yto get used to is all the teenage smoking.... They like go out to the courtyard and have a fag lol.... Its really weird lol.... You would have to hide in NZ and here theyre like lighting up on there way out the door...
Yesterday i went to the movies with my italian family and some of there friends and feel asleep like 10 minutes in... If im not careful theyll stop taking me places lol... cause there scared im gonna go to sleep lol... I almost did at a concert they took me to lol... and in my italian classes lol...
Ive made a bargin with my friend sofy that i teach her english she teaches me italian lol...
We are doing poetry in english.. Like seriously can i not get away from this subject.. anyway i have to go now... ciao for now...
Its really weird to go from being very independant to having almost everything done for me... In the moring i get a knock and a soft Shelby instead of the harsh ringing of the alarm clock... My host parents make my breakfast before i even get down stairs.. ( the toast here is nothing like in New Zealand its really hard and crusty but if we look at it in perspective is double hard and crusty since Italian bread is hard and crusty anyway...) Mauro drives me to the bus stop and the bus comes at 6:40 and goes all the way into florence it takes about 30minutes and i then catch another bus into the heart of florence so all in all it takes me about an hour to get to school...
Schol is really kol.. It of corse has ts good and bad bits lol... like anything.. I go to schol from monday to satarday and go from 8 until 2.. We have classes ranging between 1 and 3 hours.. This is different.... Its really good for painting but 2 hours of maths and italian is seriously not kol.. ( both of these teachers are really strict )
If you think of all the clothes that are really gay and wouldnt be caught dead in... Yeah well they are all in fashion here lol.. At the bus stop i saw this guy and he was wering sunshine yellow pants and a purple pocka dotted over sized jersey... not pretty lol...
The teachers here just sit at the front of the class and talk for hours on end lol... In maths the teacher calls out your name and you have to go up and answer a question by yourself on the board... not kol lol.. i hpe i never have to lol..
In the afternon it takes me slightly longer to get home lol... about another half an hour because i dont finish early enough for the first bus... Mirella picks me up from the bus statuion and we come home and have lunch.. Im always really hungary because its almost 4 by the time we get home... and ive had breakfast at 6 and some biscuits at 10...
All the mosquitos are starting to die now... YES!!! Die suckers die...
When it rains in florence it really rains lol... Like when you watch in movies and there in the jungle were theyre like drenched in seconds by these big fat and heavy raindrops thats how it rains here...
Something i find hard yto get used to is all the teenage smoking.... They like go out to the courtyard and have a fag lol.... Its really weird lol.... You would have to hide in NZ and here theyre like lighting up on there way out the door...
Yesterday i went to the movies with my italian family and some of there friends and feel asleep like 10 minutes in... If im not careful theyll stop taking me places lol... cause there scared im gonna go to sleep lol... I almost did at a concert they took me to lol... and in my italian classes lol...
Ive made a bargin with my friend sofy that i teach her english she teaches me italian lol...
We are doing poetry in english.. Like seriously can i not get away from this subject.. anyway i have to go now... ciao for now...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Finally In Italia
Okay yes... Well... Im sorry ity has taken me so long to update... But well i forgot my password... And well i was having some trouble trying to find it out because well everythings in italian lol.... S ive been in Italy under a week and it feels like ive been gone for ages... Lol... Technically i left NZ a week ago... Oh my the amount of things that have happened in that time lol... THis first blog will be really bad lol because I have so much to say and im not sure how to condesnse it down or put it into something that resembles consious thought lol... As some of you will already know i am a seriously bad speller so writing on a funny keyboard is definitly not working lol.. Okay i think im gnna try just making statements and then following them up with shit lol.. Okay... Here wee go...
Italians do whatevery they want! This seems like suchj a funny statement but it is seriously true... They will drive where ever they want... They may have a line that could fit four cars nicely next to each other... But no the italians just drive were ever they want lol... and it doesnt even have to be in this lane... They also drive at whatever spead they want lol... And the smell of brakes is almost always in the air... So as you can tell driving is different in a car but wait you then have to add vespers,cyclists, busesw and people... No these people can be just walking on the road or they could also be selling newspapers etc.... I know for sure that my mum could never drive in Italy lol...
Okay ill go back a little bit to actually coming here lol... Well now.. I suffer from motion sickness so i was aproslutely dreading the 28 hour flight here... Now during the first half of this flight i was lead to falsely beleive that things were actually going to be okay... Well thats how it seemed on singapore airlines... Well then i got on to a luftansa plane and boydid things go down hill... That my friends is a increadibly awful plane... I am dreading the flight home... wellthe first half anyway...
Everybody that is part of AFS is like seriously kol... The people travelling from NZ, the volunteers, the families and just like everyone lol... Thos os such an amazing experience and i wish that more people can be involved..
My host family are really great... I dont think i copuld ask for a better set of peope if i was to outline what i wanted lol... My sisters speak english from there 2 years at an american school in Africa... Yes africa lol... and my parents speak broken english but well its better english than i can speak italian lol...
I had my first day at school today and that was different... I will depending on the day need to catch 2 or 3 buses... I will go to school from 8 till 2 with a 15 minute break... and unlike a lot of the schools in itlay i will actualy have to change classrooms... This brings me to timetables good god are they different... But they dont seem to make any sence or seem at all benificial... Which seriously sucks because i hate not knowing... Which is going to make this experience very very hard for me lol...
But i am enjoying it so very much and I am trying not to miss anything out but i think from now on my blogs wil be easyer to read because i wont have to condence so much... Not that i dont love to babble lol... Which of corse i do... Like you didnt know that lol...
LOVE YOU HEAPS
Italians do whatevery they want! This seems like suchj a funny statement but it is seriously true... They will drive where ever they want... They may have a line that could fit four cars nicely next to each other... But no the italians just drive were ever they want lol... and it doesnt even have to be in this lane... They also drive at whatever spead they want lol... And the smell of brakes is almost always in the air... So as you can tell driving is different in a car but wait you then have to add vespers,cyclists, busesw and people... No these people can be just walking on the road or they could also be selling newspapers etc.... I know for sure that my mum could never drive in Italy lol...
Okay ill go back a little bit to actually coming here lol... Well now.. I suffer from motion sickness so i was aproslutely dreading the 28 hour flight here... Now during the first half of this flight i was lead to falsely beleive that things were actually going to be okay... Well thats how it seemed on singapore airlines... Well then i got on to a luftansa plane and boydid things go down hill... That my friends is a increadibly awful plane... I am dreading the flight home... wellthe first half anyway...
Everybody that is part of AFS is like seriously kol... The people travelling from NZ, the volunteers, the families and just like everyone lol... Thos os such an amazing experience and i wish that more people can be involved..
My host family are really great... I dont think i copuld ask for a better set of peope if i was to outline what i wanted lol... My sisters speak english from there 2 years at an american school in Africa... Yes africa lol... and my parents speak broken english but well its better english than i can speak italian lol...
I had my first day at school today and that was different... I will depending on the day need to catch 2 or 3 buses... I will go to school from 8 till 2 with a 15 minute break... and unlike a lot of the schools in itlay i will actualy have to change classrooms... This brings me to timetables good god are they different... But they dont seem to make any sence or seem at all benificial... Which seriously sucks because i hate not knowing... Which is going to make this experience very very hard for me lol...
But i am enjoying it so very much and I am trying not to miss anything out but i think from now on my blogs wil be easyer to read because i wont have to condence so much... Not that i dont love to babble lol... Which of corse i do... Like you didnt know that lol...
LOVE YOU HEAPS
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Hey Just A Little More
So I of course just got my blog and have finally figured out how to use it after much help from a friend... Sometimes its not so hard to imagine that I might actually be stupid... So im going to Italy on the 9th September... I will be living in about an hour out of Flarence in Lastra A Signa... I will have a Mamma Mirella, Babbo Mauro, and five sisters Chira, Maria, Sylvia.. Who will be in Italy with me and Luisa and Rosa who are going way on and exchange at the same time... To the Dominecan Republic and India... I am very excited to meet them... I will be going to a school called 'LEON BATTISSTA ALBERTI' an art vschool in the heart of Florence... Could it get any better??? So I will try to update you as much as possible... But hopefully more exciting and better writing... (This sentance being a very good example)....
One Week
One week... In one week I will be travelling for 26 hours on an airplane to stay for a year in a totally different country... Especially since the only time I've been on an airplane was a month ago when I went up to Auckland for the night.. And I suffer from motion sickness...(Pity Laugh).
Im so excited to be going to Italia... Im so woried about my italian.. Not going very well. Im kinda unsure what to write.. Just sounds a bit like babble... Hopefully theyll get better while im away...
Im so excited to be going to Italia... Im so woried about my italian.. Not going very well. Im kinda unsure what to write.. Just sounds a bit like babble... Hopefully theyll get better while im away...
