Hii friends & familia - aka amici e genitori! Its Lisa - we are sitting in the quad of la villa rosa, picking out classes that we're going to take this semester. Kristin already explained how crazy our Prequel trip was, and i have a ton of photos i want to put up right now but this stupid site isnt working! I'll do it later.
First of all, Greece is the most amazing place. Although we didn't make it to the beautiful islands, we fell in love with the culture and unbelievable historical sites. We made our way through the country studying about the ancient mythology of the gods, and did presentations on the sites themselves. Greece itself was our classroom, and it was incredible. We listened to the history of Mt. Etna in Sicily while physically standing on the volcano, and were able to dig into the ground and feel the warmth from the lava below. We learned about the acropolis while looking up at the beautiful temple with the city of athens to our backs. We saw temples, stadiums and theatres that have been intact for thousands of years. It was amazing.
The life in Athens, Sicilia and Roma is so perfect, everyone goes at their own pace and enjoys life day by day. The minute we got there we felt at home, even though we couldn't speak the language, it didn't matter. The friends we made were awesome, we loved everyone and didn't leave each others side for the entire 10 days. Words honestly can't describe this trip, it was the best time of our lives.
Now we are finally in Firenze, and we met our host families last night! Kristin and I are living with Onelisa and Mario, an older couple who live about 15 minutes from the school... and speak ZERO english. Figuring out how to talk to them is interesting.. between kristin and I we can somewhat form sentences. They are so nice, they have a little dog and their family lives nearby. There is an amazing gelateria down the street from us.. thats gonna be a huge problem. Dinner last night was amazing - italian food is soooo good. We'll basically be italian by the end of this trip.
k thats all, we'll write more later, now i have to teach mich & lena how to use this blog haha
miss & love, ciaoooo bellas
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