September 10, 2010

We moved into our host family yesterday! Our host family is this 70-year-old lady who has 2 daughters (37&38yrs old) who both still live at home. One just had a baby, Matilde, who's 3 months old now. They have two cats as well, named Mojito and Bloody Mary! :) The older lady doesn't speak any English but the two daughters speak English pretty well. Both of them work. I think one is a psychologist and one works in sales (at least that's what our Host Family Description said).

Our "apartment" is really nice! There's nice artwork all over the walls! Our room is bigger than what we thought it would be. We each have our own wardrobe, desk, and I have a small chest of drawers and Meghan has drawers underneath her bed. The ceilings are really tall and we have a pretty snazzy view out our window.

We live about a 15 minute walk away from the campus and we get to pass by the Piazza della Liberta on our way. The whole walk is really nice and completely safe the whole way plus it'll be good exercise for us everyday! Oh, and their floor is the 3rd floor so yesterday when we were moving in we had to haul ALL our luggage up 3 flights of stairs because there isn't an elevator. We were pretty pooped afterwards.

Today, we only had two meetings and I'm about to take my laptop to a computer store and I think they're going to back up my hard drive for me. Once I do that I'll package it up and send it home! That might be Monday though just depending on how long they take to back up my hard drive. It's been a pretty relaxing day but I had a lot of emails to send and things to reply to on facebook. I'll try to update my blog as much as I can and keep in touch with people but right now, without my laptop, it's so hard for me to get on the internet and reply to everyone all the time. Not being so dependent on technology is actually kind of nice right now but I'll do my best to keep in touch.