Billgoestoitalia0910′s Blog

I’ve been lazy balls since i got here i’ll be dead honest and i just thought you know it wasn’t too important to do this well anyways, I have 29 more days left until i go back to america its going to be insane i can’t even believe it!! this yeah has seriously been amazing i have some of the craziest  and funniest stories and friends to leave with, i’m reallllyyy going to miss it all!! these days i’m just sort of annoyed and bored and tired, school ends in 2 days!! but then after school what do I do??? I know i will hardly see my classmates when school ends because everyone goes on vacation!! and I have to stay in brescia. I am planning on traveling to a lot of places in italy before I leave but, the 17th-20th of june is the last AFS camp we have together and after that my host sister from america comes home on the 23rd of june, but this sunday we have an AFS brescia party with all the families and students it should be fun it will be exactly like the one back in september that we did haha. 29 days will go by realllly slow i know like everyday i think about what day it is and i realize thats its just one day more than the last but i’m gonna not try to think about it. Everything is just dead now hahah i just don’t really understand what i’m doing here at the moment like there is no more school, a lot of my friends are gone, and my host family is just too busy to hang out with. I feel more lonely than when i first arrived. I definitely changed sooo much during this trip and I love it, I’m gonna go back a new man and i can’t wait to see all my family again.  This trip gave me a life lesson on how lucky i am to have a family that is sooo supportive and nice back in america like when i get back i’m gonna cherish every moment with them. I do not however look forward to starting school, i mind as well go back to freshmen year because all my classes are with juniors and i have to take double gym and all this boring shit hahah it sucks. I don’t really have any regrets on this trip, but there is many moments i would love to relive again. I have soo much to tell when i get back but for me i think its better to just keep it all to myself this trip was for me and its tooo difficult to explain everything that happened this year i think the only people that will really understand is the other exchange students. People don’t really realize things clearly when they are living in the moment or life of the party but once you’re outside looking into everything you start to realize and understand things more clearly. I have a lot of shit to do when i get back too, i’m also a bit upset i never kept this site updated but it will always be in my brain. Trust me i would love to share all of it but it would take months to write it all down. To get back and to just be american again and everything american will be sooo different i honestly feel a bit like i did before i came to italy not knowing anything and feeling like someone new or a tourist haha i still can’t believe soon i’ll be back in buffalo. I definitely plan on traveling a lot after i get back in america, I have a new perspective on everything now, its insane!! But i hope my friend from belgium will come to america this summer, I’ve been talking to her and she has been working and saving up money the whole year and she is just psyched to come to buffalo, but she has to wait to see her grades from school to see if she did good enough and passed and stuff. But my amazing friend vanessa went away and she will be back in brescia the 27th but i will see her for like 2 secs to say bye but i just feel soo fucken lonely without her and my other friend leaves sunday. The worst part is saying goodbye to everyone, it really doesn’t hit you until you’re gone and think about all the funny shit that happened and all the crazy fucked up memories. But right now i’m trying to just live my italian life to the fullest for these last few weeks, I hope to go crazy and have a lot of fun and i’m gonna stya positive and not think about going home at all!! but now i gotta go eat dinner hopefully i will write again before i return!!

Ehi! finally its march, i haven’t wrote anything is such a long time i don’t now why i just like totally forgot but right now the weather is nice i love it like today is a really nice day and like hot and sunny. But everything is swell italian is just annoying for me now like i’m just sick of it but whatever. I have like literally like 4 months left here and then i’m back in buffalo, i can’t believe it. School is alright like its good but since last time i started music classes in my school i went to England for a couple days and i went to genova, milan, venice for the carnival and thats it i think. But soon i just wanna travel a lot because the temperature is starting to get better. I hope to go to rome for like a bit i wanna stay in rome for a couple of days because its huge and there is no way i can just go for a day my host family even told me that. But anyways also I hope to go to the Black eyed peas concert in milan may 12th! Also not this weekend but next weekend i am going to catania which is sicily its a really nice city and its big. I hope the weather is hot and the other exchange student from buffalo is going with me and we get to go to the beaches, climb a volcano, go to taormina and just chillax and hopefully party A LOT. But i will be in sicily during my birthday, not really but we leave on the 13th of march and come back the 21st which is my birthday but i will be back to celebrate it with my host family here. I’ve been having a few probs with the host fam but i don’t know i try to just like it fly by i’m just trying to be busy a lot because i hate it when im bored here. I don’t know what else to say but lately yes i’ve been having fun but not like the first months i was here when i was partying like crazy but its getting better i have italian friends finally like that i can call and just hang out if i want to and also i still have a few exchange friends that i can hang out with too. Well next time i write i hope it will be soon! oh yeah and i found out the day i return its July 3rd so i doubt i will be back for the 4th of july but whatever thats alright well i gotta go PEACE!

Well now I can just say that I’ve spent about a whole semester in Italy or an foreign country it feels really nice to have accomplished it. But everything is good not great and not horrible, I say that because I’ve just started school up again and waking up early morning long school hours and sitting in the library is not fun or entertaining at all. The thing I hate here is that they have school also on saturdays also which blows. My Italian is much better it is like amazing like compared to when I arrived here when I absolutely knew nothing at all. Its january which is probably the coldest month here my host family told me but the weather ain’t too bad its like just fresh out but no freezing. I can’t wait till spring I am just dieing for nice weather here and I would say that I am more glad when the weather is nice its too depressing here right now because the sun sets really early and it is always sooo foggy and gross. I have like only 6 months left here which gives me plenty of time to go out have fun and learn more of the language. Well I should go now I will post soon!!!

Sorry for not posting in awhile for like almost what 1 month or 2? well anyways it doesn’t matter well christmas went by and im glad its over because it was a bit depressing to be away from family but its alright. Right now i am on vacation and i can finally sleep and just relax its really nice because also my friend from belgium came back to brescia for 2 weeks and i am going to her house to celebrate new years it is going to be sick. But everything is just normal now like there is nothing exciting or nothing bad going on im sort of just chillin now really just hanging out. But I can’t wait till january starts because then i know that ive made it like a semester in italy and it feels really nice but now i sort of just want to become professional in italian but it is sooo difficult but ive been studying my ass off a bit and i really just want to be fluent by the end of the trip or i will be upset. It is possible because i still do have like 6-7 months left here so i have tons of time. Also it might sound crazy but my knowledge of english is not as great as it was before like i am forgetting things i don’t know why its weird and i type much slower too but whatever. Well the weather is shitty its all gloomy and rainy most the time but also at times it is a bit sunny but i just want spring to come by because winter sucks but i should be glad that there is no more snow i hope. When i arrive back in america i know it will be different its gonna be weird to see everyone again. I feel like i now have a second home because i know everything about this city like where everything is and how to get places, i just have everything down i feel like i know more about Brescia than Buffalo. But yeah i will try to post soon with some exciting information instead of just typing random shiz but yeah soon i think i might be going to southern italy for a week with AFS its called exchange week but they haven’t told us when so I don’t know when its gonna be but anyways i gotts get going i will post soon! Ciao

Wow I’ve been here for 48 days and I can’t believe I made it this far even though I still have like 8 more months but I will just not think about that. But everything is alright it is definitely not great. I love my host family here they are soo nice and amazing but I still haven’t found like really good italian friends yet. I have a bunch in my class but they aren’t the kids I enjoy hanging out with. But I love the other exchange students they are like family too me, we have became soo close to each other. Brescia is beautiful but I don’t feel like going through a cold dark winter because its depressing. I love it here when the weather is nice. My italian is pretty impressive it is soo weird like I can actually understand like a lot of things people say and I can speak italian easily at most times with my classmates and stuff. School is stressful because they want me to learn 3 languages at once Italian, Spanish, and German. Spanish is rediculously hard like its takes my mind away from italian and then I can’t remember a bit of italian. German is interesting but I don’t like it too much. I feel like i am forgetting sooo much english like when I write or type english I always have to think and I don’t like that, its making me nervous because I don’t want to loose my english when I have to go through my hardest year of school next year it would suck. I need to start planning for college soon too, I am looking forward for college because its gonna be soo much fun….I hope. Holiday season is coming up so its gonna be upsetting to be away from my family for the first time during the holidays. But I think I can pull it through. Soon I hope to start music classes at my school because I attend a music school so they have piano and all types of music classes and I would love to get more into music for college. I am going to also start music classes in the afternoon soon but I don’t know exactly when yet I still have to figure a lot of things out. Alright well i should study and go to bed soon so I gotta go, I will try to post something soon!

Ci vediamo dopo

Ciao!

I almost made it through a month in Italy and I am really proud of myself so far because I’ve been having a great time and I am doing good. Tonight I am going out with my friends to a club for the first time! I’m really excited and I’m also going to a pub! But anyways tomorrow I am going to Venice and I am really excited to see how it is and it is susposed to be nice weather so its gonna be perfect. School is super boring like always but I love my classmates and I’m starting to make really good friends in school and outside of school. I hope things keep going in the right direction! But I am having the time of my life here, I definitly recommend Italy to any exchange student looking to go on exchange but it also is very frustrating because trying to learn the language is really stressful if you are american or asian. Other europeans or south americans will have no problem with the language. But I am trying my hardest and I wouldn’t be surprised if I start dreaming in italian in a few months. But the weather is still really nice here and i don’t want it to get cold but its fine. I will try to write soon!

Ciao!!

Ciao!

I am finally adjusted to italy and i’m sorry i haven’t been posting much because i’m so busy with school friends and family so Brescia is AMAZING so far haha i love it soo much i don’t want to go back to Buffalo ever. But all the kids are soo nice and i’m already making friends and everything. I am going to venice either this week or next week and its gonna be a boat trip so its gonna be really fun! School is boring like always but i made some friends at school that are really nice. I am taking italian, german, spanish, gym, math, philosophy and theater so its not bad at all but i have to spend most time in the library because i don’t have a lot of classes. I will try to post some pictures up if i can. I will make sure to update stuff soon!

CIAO!