Last day of 2016

December 31st, 2016

The last day

And then a new beginning

I'm always asked myself why people care so muc about the last day of the year. But i actually can understand why because i'm the king of person that loves thinking about the last year and dreaming about what may happen in the next one.

I love thinking and write down what i'd like to do the next year and what i did this year because it helps remember how much lucky i am. 

So here we go, writing my list of the BEST MOMENT OF 2016

-New's Years Eve 2015, first of all

-Limited birthday in Milan and at Bianco bar

-School bc even if i complain a lot about that, i still love going to school

-all the moment when i feel proud because i get a good grade

-and my final school grade (proud of it!)

-night at the disco with my friends

-muppet driving around the town

-Madonna de Marz

-skiing with my cousin and friend in the Alps

-finally find out who's my host family

-meeting my host family

-application and meeting before leaving with other exchange student

-Macklemore concert in Milan

-Grest 2016

-Moneglia with my favourite schoolmates

-visiting the Milan cathedral with my mom and aunti

-barniz evening

-visiting and touring milan with Limited

-driving to Monza

-going to the lake with friends 

- in milan with bbf the day after Easter eating at Eataly

-Paris and all the memories coming with that

-Getting ready to leave

-New york prep course

-say goodbye to everybody and cry a lot

-visiting New York City

-making new friends

-going to an American High School

-Packers game

-black friday shopping

-hunting and deer day

-fourwheel tour

-visiting the UP all around

-join cross country and swim, and going to the meet

-Homecoming week and homecoming dance

-Football games on friday night

-Skype call with my family, friends and the others exchange student

-Halloween and carving pumpkin

-Christmas and Christmas eve night away from home

I can't list every thing i've done this year. While i was writing i realize that so much thing happend that it feels like it has been 3 years since the last January. I can't even remember everything!

Now that's what i would like to do in 2017:

1. Finish end enjoy everything of my American adventure 
2. coast to coast in the us
3. Study hard this summer t demonstrate my teacher doing this experience doesn't let me behind my schoolmates 
4. Going on vacation with my best friend
5. Spending time with my family
6. Study hard for the last year of school
7. Go to the gym or do something at east twice a week
8. Have fun with my friends
9. Sing in to take my license
10. Decide where i want to go to college
11. Organize a trip for my h-family so they can come and visit me
12. Go somewhere in Europe 
13. Win at leas one swimming event
14. Go to prom
15. Graduate and having a graduation party
16. Say goodbye to everybody and hi to everybody again.

That's all i can think about right now. I know 2017 deserves some beautiful surprise for me and i can't wait to find out what are about.

December 30th, 2016

Can't believe i'm finally writing this post with my new and super beautiful keyboard i just got last day from Amazon! A week ago i sent my"old" laptop back to Italy because it still desn't work. So i basically came here all proud of my magnificent and super high tech pc but i've never used it because the first time i tried to switch it on it didn't work at all. i'm still so piss for that. How is possible that i broke it whiteout touching anything? They told me there some water inside it but there is no way for it to be near water for the all voyage. i just don't get how possible that everything i touch breaks (my mom was probably right, i should known that). Anyway, all this only to say that ne that i got thug new keyboard is gonna be so much more easier for me to write post daily. I wan t be realistic: let's just say weekly. I'm so behind to write post and so many things happened in this past few months that i don't want to thing how much time is gonna take to write everything down!

one big change that happened to my life in this few months is that Buddy, our boxer, started loving my bedroom. You can say this is a huge change because now my bedroom and my pillow smell like dog. But i love Buddy so much that i don't really care. He's so sweet, always looking for attention. And you can't gnome him because he always looks so sad!

Second thing is that i actually feel like my english is finally improving a little bit. I mean, i watch my first movie at the cinema yesterday and i was so proud that i understood everything they were saying. If you're wondering (probably no, but i don't care) the movie we went to watch is "why him?" Which i s a very good movie an d the actor is pretty hot too. After have seen that movie i said that i don't still think the f word is as bed as they told me because is pretty much what the main actor says for the whole movie. But i guess is not how i think because they confirm that yes, the f word is REALLY bed here. And that's so weird because even if you speak a very broken english you now he meaning of tha word... anyway, another example for why i'm saying my English is gradually improving is that i feel so much more confinement writing this post in English, sometimes is even easier than writ it in italian because you can't write what happens in American in italian. I know it probably doesn't make any sense for most of people but it does for me and it's hard to explain.

Damn i love this new keyboard so much that i won't stop writing!

We wen to the movie again tonight with my h-family and we watched Sing which turned ut to be a fun cartoon.

Can't believe this year is almost gone. I'm so excited and scared at the same time for tomorrow because i'm going to celebrate New Years Eve at one of my friend's boyfriend house. I have no idea who's going to be there. But i hope is gonna be as much fun as what my New Years would be if I would lived in italy. I got some crackers and dip and some fake wine without alcohol for the party. I'll write a different post to tell about it next year! 

I have so many things to say that i don't know where to start from. But i guess this post is becoming too long and boring. And it's late now too. So i guess i'm just going to make a list about all different post i would like to write and then go to bed so i can have a rest and be ready for the last day of this awesome year!

So, goodnight peeps (i know nobody is reading my post, i just like to pretend that's not true! )

 

Here we have a normal picture that shows what happens when you go grocery shop with your crazy funny h-family after a movie night!

THANKSGIVING AND BLACK FRIDAY SHOPPING

November 24th, 2016

THANKSGIVING

When you're on exchange you experience thing for the first and last time. One of these is the local festivity and in particular the most famous American Holiday ever. Yes, I'm talking about Thanksgiving.
I experience my first thanksgiving ever and I can say that the thing I was most excited for was -of course- the turkey! And no body can blame me because e the very first thing you think when you talk about Thanksgiving is the turkey dinner. That's the reason why lots of my friends and relatives from Italy ask me a picture of a turkey.
I had three (THREE) turkey dinner during the day! But let's start telling you the story from the very beginning.

GET WELL SOON

Remember the post about very weird things you can find on a Michigan road.... now I'm ready to tell you another one which is so much better than anyone else! Two days ago we were driving back home with my host sister from my daily swimming practice. We were talking about something I don't remember when we saw a road killer on the side of the road. It wasn't a big surprise for both of them but this time was different. In fact, there was a balloon over the porcupine. And a writing on that balloon saying "get well soon". For a dead porcupine. On the side of the road. It was the saddest e funniest thing ever! I was shocked and amused at the same time. I became more shocked when talking with vee she told me this is not the first time she saw something like that. But I felt better when my host mom was as shocked as me when we were together driving back home the day next and the balloon was still there. 

And last but not least this morning a dear hit the side of the car while my host mom was giving me a drive to school. It's the fourth dear in six month she hits with her car. And her obviously reaction was: "stupid dear! Stop hitting my freakin' car!" Screaming, obviously! That's why I love her! 

PRIMO PACCO DALL'ITALIA

PRIMO PACCO DALL'ITALIA

Ieri, venerdì Novembre 18, -come potrete facilmente intuire dal titolo del post- ho ricevuto il primo pacco dall'Italia! Ho ricevuto questa sorpresa ieri sera quando sono tornata a casa dagli allenamenti di nuoto, prima di andare al camp. Non potevo essere più felice! Era da settimane che ogni volta che chiamavo mia mamma mi chiedeva l'indirizzo di casa o cosa avrebbe potuto spedirmi o cosa mi sarebbe potuto servire tra le cose che ho lasciato a casa ecc... ma le mie risposte erano sempre negative perche effettivamente non mi serve nulla per ora. Continuavo a dirle che eventualmente avrebbe potuto spedirmi un pacco per natale con dei regali per la famiglia e qualche tipico cibo italiano. Così ho creato un promemoria dal telefono e l'ho condiviso con lei così ogni volta che mi sarebbe venuto in mente qualcosa che lei avrebbe potuto spedirmi lo avrei potuto scrivere li. Ma naturalmente mia mamma aveva già progettato tutto ed era ben decisa a spedirmi il primo pacco per il giorno del mio compleanno (che è il 29 novembre). Così -non chiedetemi come perché mia mamma non parla assolutamente inglese- si è messa d'accordo con la mia host mom per sapere l'indirizzo e spedirmi questo benedetto pacco (in tutti i sensi!) Ora vi starete chiedendo cosa c'era dentro questo pacco. Ebbene ecco la lista delle cose Made in Italy che ora sono finalmente qui con me!-fist of all, alcuni vestiti invernali e estivi (per quando andrò in Florida durante le spring break) -costume per nuoto -cappello e sciarpe varie-prodotti per il viso e per i brufoli causati probabilmente dai troppi cookies che sto mangiando i questi giorni-vitamine... esatto, vitamine... non chiedetemi per quale motivo mia mamma abbi sentito la necessità di spedirmi delle vitamine/integratori alimentari. Ma questo vi fa solo capire come sia preoccupata per l'inverno e non voglia che io prenda freddo e mi ammali... dimostrazione che le mamme non cambiano anche se sono dall'altra parte del mondo-regali per il mio compleanno che naturalmente aprirò il giorno del mio compleanno perché sono una brava bambina e mi piace aspettare il momento giusto (anche se questo h causato un grande disappunto da parte della mi host mom che sperava vivamente di poter vedere cosa mi avessero regalato). In tutto o regali sono ben cinque: due dai miei genitori, uno dalla nonna rosa, uno da mia zia e mia cugina e l'ultimo dalle mie sette bbf, amiche di vecchia data -come si suol dire- e compagne di classe prefe! Non mia spettavo assolutamente che mi avrebbero fatto il regalo di compleanno! Mi hanno reso la persona più felice del mondo e mi sono sentita così tanto amata come non mai anche se di fatto sono dall'altra parte del mondo. Mi sarei aspettata una reazione diversa, del tipo un attacco di nostalgia, malinconia che mi avrebbe fatto sentire ancora di più la mancanza di casa e delle mie amicizie, ma fortunatamente non è stato così! Non so proprio come ringraziarle! Mi mancano tutti un sacco e ho capito quanto gli voglio bene ma ora torniamo alle cose importanti, perché le prossime cose che elencherò saranno principalmente cose da mangiare. E devo ammettere che sono state le cose che mi hanno resa più felice di tutte per ora! Più volte mi hanno chiesto cosa mi mancasse del mio paese e la mia prima risposta è sempre e solo stata la stessa: il cibo. Non perché vengo dall'Italia e, modestamente, abbiamo il cibo e le abitudini alimentari migliori del mondo, ma semplicemente perché è difficile abituarsi a mangiare in modo diverso. Almeno così e successo a me. Ma questo non vuol dire che non mi piaccia il cibo qui, perch e credetemi mangio come non mai. È solo che è semplicemente diverso e mi ci vuole del tempo per abituarsi. Potete solo immaginare la felicità quando ho scoperto che la mia dolce e amatissima mamma mi ha spedito le cose che più mi piacciono:-baci perugina-torrone-castagne che lei stessa ha cotto in casa -marron glacé -pesto-parmigiano reggiano (la parte migliore devo ammettere)-panettone-tutto l'occorrente per fare il risotto allo zafferano-tisana al finocchio (la mia prefe in assoluto!)