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Danielle's First Report September 19, 2005 |
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Ciao a tutti,
I am here safe and sound in Italy. I arrived on Thursday afternoon at
about 5:30. I met so many people. I was lucky because the only time I
was by myself was in the airport in the Bahamas and in Miami. When I
got in Detroit I met a guy who is doing an exchange with his college
to Italy, that helped the time to pass and I also learnt alot about
the exchange program for college students. It was very interesting
specially seeing that I had three hours to wait in Detroit's airport.
the plane ride to Rome was very long but I also met a woman from Las
Vegas and her husband is the chemist for Diet Coca Cola and the sister
to Gatorade.. Powerade. The flight was also very interesting. It was
hard to sleep on a eight hour flight but I managed to get a few
minutes in, maybe an hour. When I finally arrived in Rome I was so
lost. I was on this tiny concourse and they didn't have any signs that
could help me, so I stood there with this map and that couldn't even
help me, but thankfully I managed to use the little Italian I knew and
found my way to where I was supposed to be. There I had to wait three
hours to take my final plane to Cagliari. I met a woman from Cagliari
who now lives in New York and I spoke with her a little and then on
the plane ride I met a girl from Cagliari who was in canada for the
summer. Everyone was so nice to me and willing to help me. Therefore I
had a great first impression of Italy. The first night was so hard, I
was so tired because I hadn't slept in over 24 hours and it just hit
me I am going to be away from everyone and everything I know in a
foreign country for 1 year. OMG.. and beacuse I was tired it made it
so much worse, but my host mother and her sister and a guy named
Gerardo who is just like family, tried to help me so much, but at that
moment I just wanted to go to sleep to make it all go away. Well thank
God that was the only bad time. Off and on I ave been a little sad but
I have been so busy, I have had little time to think about everything
back home. Everything has already been un believeable. In the bahamas
we only have the beach, here You have the mountains and the beach and
you can see the mountains from he beach it is so BEAUTIFUL. The only
weird thing is the su is so hot but the water is so cold...
I love it here so far
and I have met so many people. I will begin school on Tuesday, I don't
know if I am excited or not yet. But that will be another experience,
(my first day of school) wow.. I met the friends of Ilaria and they
are very nice to me, they try to help me so much to learn the
language, my Italian is coming along slowly but surely. I now can
truly say I learn something new everyday.
I just want to say thank you
to everyone, Rotary and my parents, who made this all possible. I will
right more later and send pictures.
Miss you all in The Bahamas!!!
Ciao everyone,
Danielle Chestnut
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