Sunday, November 16, 2014

Arrivederci Italia!




It's late, and I'm sitting in my room packing up the last of my things before I fly back home tomorrow. But I thought I would write my last blog post about my Italian Adventure. And what an adventure it was! I had the time of my life, and I learn so much about myself and life over these last three months. I did things I thought I would never be able to do, I saw so many places, made so many friends from all over the world. And I now have an awesome Italian family :) I will be forever grateful to them for giving me this amazing adventure. And I'm going to miss them so much. 

Romeo :) 

Aurora 

Today me and the family walked into town to go to a puppet show. It was super cool to watch, even though I can't understand half of what they were saying. Then we went to see the Lecco Rugby team. Let me just say they are quite attractive haha. After that we came home, had dinner, and just talked. It was definitely a wonderful last day here. 

It is going to be so hard to say goodbye tomorrow. This is definitely a bittersweet moment. But I am ready to go home and see my family and go back to my normal life. I've missed it a lot. I still can't believe I had this amazing opportunity to live here. And I can't wait to come back and visit everyone.

 So it's been a great time but it's time to say goodbye to the beautiful Italy! 

Ciao! 

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Bergamo

Today I went into a town called Bergamo. It's about a 40 minute train ride from where I live. I spent most the morning and early afternoon looking around, it's a really pretty town. There are two parts of Bergamo. The lower Bergamo. And the higher Bergamo. I went into like 5 different churchs, which were really nice. I love finding random churchs and going to look in them. It's amazing how you can literally just find a church between like a few stores or something, and It looks really small. But when you go inside its actually way bigger. 

The view from the higher part

A random path I found.

Fall colors 

It was my last little trip before I go home this weekend. And my last time on a train here haha. Only a few days left until my adventure is over...

Sunday, November 9, 2014

Last week...

I'm leaving Italy in one week. I can't believe it's my last full week here, time has gone by so fast. But I'm ready to go home, and see my family and friends :) I've definitely had the most amazing time here and I will never forget it! 

The past two weeks have been good. Super busy and doing a lot of things. My friend Courtney (who is studying in Rome) came up to Lecco for Halloween! It was so much fun having her here. Last Saturday Carolina took us all to a town called Verenna. It's about a 45min drive from Lecco and its at the north part of the lake. It's was so beautiful there! 

The sunset was amazing

Courtney is adorable :) 

On Sunday me and Courtney went to Milan before she had to leave. We met Amy there (one of my Au Pair friends.) and I got to say goodbye to her before she went back to Africa. So yeah, it was a great weekend with Courtney! 

I've definitely made some amazing friends from all over the world. And I hope to be able to visit them someday :)