Okay so ive been in italy for 6 months!!! yes thats wright 6 whole months!! and boy am i annoyed abut how many times i am asked "so how many kangaroos have you seen?" a non because ive never been to AUSTRALIA!! "But you guys do have koalas?"NO they live in AUSTRALIA!!"gosh! You must be cold living here especially since a part of you big country is really close-ish to the equator" OH MY GOD!!! I DO NOT LIVE IN AUSTRALIA!! the kiwi is also no stupid retarded bird. Lots of birds dont fly! Well maybe not LOTS but there are others its not just the KIWI!
Whle im saying these things i do love it here in Italy!! it is of corse the most amazing thing ive done in my life.... Lets not forget Im only 17!!( but not for long!!!!!!!!)
Im pleased to say that my italian is improvingbut it is still a challange and i think i may of let it over come me but know that ive realised im ready to fight!!! (lol im a egg!!) and move on with my experience to make it even better than it would of been in the first place!!
Im not going to deny about being homesick and at times have had to fight thoughts of home off because they upset me to much!! I think what made me so homesick is all the changes that have gone on back home in NZ!! Some off them really good and others im not really sure i know what to think!! But i think all of the changes will help my family and friends move on into the future!!
Nothing extremly interesting has happened in the past months well not really nothing but the things NZers think are really are kind so so... ever day life for me now but right now Im reading my diary what do i have to tell you! um.............
- Oh i baked a cake with funky biscuits and marshmellows really yum!!!
- I went to the carnival!! ts really just a parade of some of the awesomist coolest floats ever!!!!! Theyre huge and they do really kol stuff like split in half and so thing comes out the middle.... of the heads of statues move!!! check out my pictures on facebook!!
Yeah have a snoop on facebook and yeah... stay chilled
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Firsts!!
Italy for me has been a lot of firsts
1: Time ive been on a train. Which i know use rather regularly.
2: Time using the subway I used it in Milan to go in to the centre city. ( And yes I did have to stand next to a crazy weird smelling old dude.
3: Time being the oldest in my class. Because Im in the year below lol. but there is another girl who is also almost 18.
4: Time doing designa geometrica.... geometric design... and yes it sucks it must be perfect. And i just happen to be further from perfect than pluto is from the sun.
5: Time at the discotec. Was coolish but hunny if you dont want to dance why the fuck are you on the DANCE FLOOR!! give me the evils! just watch yourself what if this fat bich falls on you ae? Thwn whats gonna happen... (just confirming yes i am a dick still!!!)
6: Time eating octopus and squid. Kinda a mind over matter thing. It doesnt taste bad i just cant seem to make myself eat it!!
7: Time going out to a bar and drinking an alcoholic drink. It was tiny and my family were all OMG alcohol shes only 17. Im like fuck! obviously havnt heard about NZs binge drinking problems.
8: (This is a big one) School on Satarday. What kinda crazy fucker desided that shit ae??? I wake up at 6 and im like yes this is what i love about Italy!!
9: Time getting lost (wait let me finish) getting lots and literally not knowing what to do and how to fix it. You know? At least in Chch i could catch a bus to like the city centre or just sit on the bus till i figure out where the fuck i am. But here i could get on a bus and if its in the wrong direction i would end up 45 minutes out of town.... SHIT.. buts all good i sorted my shit out lol...
Gay update number 3.... Love
1: Time ive been on a train. Which i know use rather regularly.
2: Time using the subway I used it in Milan to go in to the centre city. ( And yes I did have to stand next to a crazy weird smelling old dude.
3: Time being the oldest in my class. Because Im in the year below lol. but there is another girl who is also almost 18.
4: Time doing designa geometrica.... geometric design... and yes it sucks it must be perfect. And i just happen to be further from perfect than pluto is from the sun.
5: Time at the discotec. Was coolish but hunny if you dont want to dance why the fuck are you on the DANCE FLOOR!! give me the evils! just watch yourself what if this fat bich falls on you ae? Thwn whats gonna happen... (just confirming yes i am a dick still!!!)
6: Time eating octopus and squid. Kinda a mind over matter thing. It doesnt taste bad i just cant seem to make myself eat it!!
7: Time going out to a bar and drinking an alcoholic drink. It was tiny and my family were all OMG alcohol shes only 17. Im like fuck! obviously havnt heard about NZs binge drinking problems.
8: (This is a big one) School on Satarday. What kinda crazy fucker desided that shit ae??? I wake up at 6 and im like yes this is what i love about Italy!!
9: Time getting lost (wait let me finish) getting lots and literally not knowing what to do and how to fix it. You know? At least in Chch i could catch a bus to like the city centre or just sit on the bus till i figure out where the fuck i am. But here i could get on a bus and if its in the wrong direction i would end up 45 minutes out of town.... SHIT.. buts all good i sorted my shit out lol...
Gay update number 3.... Love
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Worst cheater in the world....
Okay.... im copying and pasting emails..... but i swear now to make regular updates.....
Email one:
Before now I had never travelled out of New Zealand. My trip to italy has not only did it envolve 28 hours of flights to the other side of the world. But also my first trip through a time warp. Italy is and amazing and beautiful counrty full to the brim with history and culture. Were ever you turn you find elderly women hanging out their sheets and towels from the third floor of there old stone building with its green shutters. Sometimes when I walk down the street with vans and vespas screaming past me horns blaring i can close my eyes and see the horse pulled carrages shuffling down the bumpy streets of Florence.
I live just out of Florence in a small comunitee surrounded by vineyards and olive groves. I travel into the centre of the city Monday to Saturday were I go to an artistic school were I am studying drawing.
The Italians are such wonderful and affectionate people. I have made many friends at school and my house family are absolutely wonderful. I am very greatful of you for giving me the chance to meet so many wonderful people and i have only been here for 2 months.
With AFS I have traveled to Ceasenatico a small port town on the east side of Italy It was very well organised and it was really good to talk with people who also understand the things and changes that are happening in my life. Afs Italy has taught me somethings that I cant wait to bring back to New Zealand and introduce to my chapter.Last week I travelled with my school to Venice with my school. We vistited the world art exibition it was amazing. We are now planning a trip to Milan.
Email 2:
WOW! It is now 2010! Last year was such a big year for me. With many big endings and new beginnings. Now is a time to reflect on the happenings of an important time for everyone and that being our childhood. At 17 i have lived in 3 decades and witnessed 2 millenims. I have been here for almost 5 months now and the time has seemed to fly by. They have brought about a lot of change in my life including the scenery, waking hours, buildings and ultimately the language. Its amazing the things you wish you had appresiated more you had them, when you dont have them. Italy has a beautiful countryside that looks similar to the canterbury plains but different kinds of greens. Its sometimes hard to apresiate them when you driving down the autostrada at 150km/h admist the grey tagged sound proofing walls really makes you appresiate the winding to laned roads admist the fields and the trees in NZ. But its easy to forget the grey when you enter the wonderful old and grand cities or the small villages with beautiful little churchs in there centre. During the christmas vacation I travlled with my host family to the north of Italy. I visited Milan, Brecia, Begamo and many small villages where many extended members of the family live. I also vivited the families summer house ( which during the winter is extremly cold with -7 outside. But its not all travel. I go to school everyday because I love it. But Im not going to lie getting up at 6am in the morning to go to school on a satarday is not an extremely happy time for me. In the afternoons i go to my Itialian corse with is alot of fun. Thwe teechers are really good and I feel my Italian getting better everyday Although I know my Italian is getting better I feel it is happining to slow especially when I know that other people on the afs programmes are picking it up really fast but I try not to let that get me down and always remember the great chance I have been giving and I know that I will eventually reach there level and the harder I work the faster it will come. To reach the top I need to build myself a stedy set of stairs. Speaking of stairs. In italy there are alway stairs you must climb. To get into a building and up to the level you want. At my school all my classes are on the forth floor so i generaly have to climb them at least twice because at interval i generally move down to the courtyard. But my school building is old and mismatched but increadibly welcoming and the people are just as nice someone is always willing to lend a helping hand or share a smile.
Yeah yeah i know there not good... but well... im sorry...
Email one:
Before now I had never travelled out of New Zealand. My trip to italy has not only did it envolve 28 hours of flights to the other side of the world. But also my first trip through a time warp. Italy is and amazing and beautiful counrty full to the brim with history and culture. Were ever you turn you find elderly women hanging out their sheets and towels from the third floor of there old stone building with its green shutters. Sometimes when I walk down the street with vans and vespas screaming past me horns blaring i can close my eyes and see the horse pulled carrages shuffling down the bumpy streets of Florence.
I live just out of Florence in a small comunitee surrounded by vineyards and olive groves. I travel into the centre of the city Monday to Saturday were I go to an artistic school were I am studying drawing.
The Italians are such wonderful and affectionate people. I have made many friends at school and my house family are absolutely wonderful. I am very greatful of you for giving me the chance to meet so many wonderful people and i have only been here for 2 months.
With AFS I have traveled to Ceasenatico a small port town on the east side of Italy It was very well organised and it was really good to talk with people who also understand the things and changes that are happening in my life. Afs Italy has taught me somethings that I cant wait to bring back to New Zealand and introduce to my chapter.Last week I travelled with my school to Venice with my school. We vistited the world art exibition it was amazing. We are now planning a trip to Milan.
Email 2:
WOW! It is now 2010! Last year was such a big year for me. With many big endings and new beginnings. Now is a time to reflect on the happenings of an important time for everyone and that being our childhood. At 17 i have lived in 3 decades and witnessed 2 millenims. I have been here for almost 5 months now and the time has seemed to fly by. They have brought about a lot of change in my life including the scenery, waking hours, buildings and ultimately the language. Its amazing the things you wish you had appresiated more you had them, when you dont have them. Italy has a beautiful countryside that looks similar to the canterbury plains but different kinds of greens. Its sometimes hard to apresiate them when you driving down the autostrada at 150km/h admist the grey tagged sound proofing walls really makes you appresiate the winding to laned roads admist the fields and the trees in NZ. But its easy to forget the grey when you enter the wonderful old and grand cities or the small villages with beautiful little churchs in there centre. During the christmas vacation I travlled with my host family to the north of Italy. I visited Milan, Brecia, Begamo and many small villages where many extended members of the family live. I also vivited the families summer house ( which during the winter is extremly cold with -7 outside. But its not all travel. I go to school everyday because I love it. But Im not going to lie getting up at 6am in the morning to go to school on a satarday is not an extremely happy time for me. In the afternoons i go to my Itialian corse with is alot of fun. Thwe teechers are really good and I feel my Italian getting better everyday Although I know my Italian is getting better I feel it is happining to slow especially when I know that other people on the afs programmes are picking it up really fast but I try not to let that get me down and always remember the great chance I have been giving and I know that I will eventually reach there level and the harder I work the faster it will come. To reach the top I need to build myself a stedy set of stairs. Speaking of stairs. In italy there are alway stairs you must climb. To get into a building and up to the level you want. At my school all my classes are on the forth floor so i generaly have to climb them at least twice because at interval i generally move down to the courtyard. But my school building is old and mismatched but increadibly welcoming and the people are just as nice someone is always willing to lend a helping hand or share a smile.
Yeah yeah i know there not good... but well... im sorry...
