Vannesa's Report

September 9, 2007

well i just arrived here yesterday, i got to travel with Audrey up until rome which was great. Being alone and going through something like this is hard. HAving someone you know makes all the difference.
When i got to the airport at cagliari i thought, " okay its tiny , I'm here so nothing can happen, now i can relax." Boy was i wrong. hahaha The airline lost my bag to make a long story short, and in this bag are ALL OF MY essentials, such as underwear. GREAT! (My luck is that my host mom, Silvana is really nice so today she took me out to buy those essentials.) So while im kind of freaking out about that i have to do a lost baggage claim in my bad, broken italian. ( all i know is pure conversation, like how are you? where do you live? yes, i like it here.) My host dad, Vicento had seen me walking back and forth from baggage to customs to check-in counter and came to rescue me. THANK GOD!!! In about two second he told the guy everything i had tried to in about 15 mins.Atleast his italian is good, vero? (right in italian)

He showed me the way to the exit and that is where i meet my host mom, silvana and my "tutore" ( can't spell) louie?. They then showed me cagliari and where i'm going to live. They have a house in construction which is going to be my main house and one in Tortoli which is about 2 hours from cagliari. After that i meet simone, their son ( which is dany's brother, the inbound) we had lunch and then were on our way to Tortoli aka the bEACH! yay!

After a few hours on the beach, vicento got off work and came to have dinner with us. Some of the family members showed up. We stayed talking and eating for hours. ( they want me to try everything even when I'm full, it's really funny. I tell them no thank you I'm full and they answer no always space!) After that there was a show of a musical running here in italy about the hunchback of Notre dame, the employees of the place were the actors which was cool.

Finally we went to the house ( in tortoli) and i slept for a long 10 hours which was WONDERFUL! hahah.