Hi, long time no post.
It's been a very hectic 4 days. To make a long story short, our directors had to do some last minute adjustments to our living arrangements and it turns out that I am in a home stay with another girl from my program, Natasha. Our italian mama is Carmen. She she speaks no english, provides us with 2 meals a day, and does our laundry. Pretty great deal. Her house is beautiful and in the medieval part of Ferrara, it's only a 20 minute walk to class, but after class is over, pretty much everything else is also 20 minutes away so it ends up being a lot. Tomorrow I'm renting a bike.
Today was our first day of class, we have two weeks of intensive italian classes, as in 6 hours a day. I was quite nervous this morning because I'm in the "advanced" class, but it turned out fine. I understood (mostly) everything but speaking still needs some work.
Considering the amount of time we are having to spend in class plus our non-english speaking italian parents, I better be damn good at this by december.
Everyone in my group is great, there are 16 of us and we all get along well. We all have each other's phone numbers and we all meet to go out so it's great.
I haven't taken a lot of pictures in the past few days because we were in orientation from 9-11 and then we've been settling into our homes.
New Pictures to come. . .
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