#9 First 15 days

15 days are gone, a lots of things happened and I'm sorry I haven't update the blog before but I've been and I still am reaaaally busy.

The first few days have been weird and kind of difficult because of the cultural shock. All new, all different and everybody ask you things and talk about stuff you don't understand...so basically you just smile and nodd.

At the beginning I admit that with all these kids around I was going crazy because I wasn't ready for all that energy that they have in their small bodies. Ater few days they calmed down a little bit and I started to love them because they are ssssso cute, sometimes they don't listen but cuuute.

Also with the hostparents was a bit weird because I didn't know what to do and when and if I can do certain things. The best things is asking, there's nothing wrong in it and it helps a lot. Fortunately my hostfamily doesn't have a strange accent so I understood almost everything since the beginning, sometimes I have to ask to repeat things many times before I get it but it's fine because they are here for that and they are very nice.

The first day I sleep a lot because the jetlag is really long (9 hours) and I still feel ut a bit, then we went to the store to buy things that I haven't brought with me from Italy like toilets stuff etc.

The second day we went to visit the high school that will be our (me and my exchange sister, I will talk about her in another post) school for the next year. I can't describe the way I was feeling in the moment I walked inside. I though I was dreaming, all rhe lockersand the classrooms with chairs attached to desks, and the library inside the school, and the cafeteria. And then we went to the gym and there were volleyball girls who were having a Camp and so I talked to the Coach and she said I could take part even the next day and I was like "Waaaa sso excited".

Now I'm part of the Varsity Team and I'm ssso proud of myself. I'm getting along with my team mates and that's amazing. Saturday we will do Team bonding.

The first Sunday we went to church and I though I would meet people of my age and make friends buuut nope...only kids, looots of kids everywhere between 3 months an 10 years, yyyayy. Here there are a lot of families with a lot of children (a woman was pregnant of the eleventh one). By the way we eat breakfast at the church all together and then we set to hear the mess. After we went to my first fast food in the USA: Tacos something...I don't remember the name and I obviously two tacos which were really good.

A really positive things is that my hostfamily eats very healthy because the hostmum and one of the children are celiac and so they have to eat gluten free. This means a lot of vegetables and fruit and healthy products.

I know it's strange admitting this but I can't wait for the school to start, because when I don't have anything to do and I'm in my bedroom to rest I think about my friends and stuff in my country and feel weird.

In the next days I'll post more :)

Feel free to comment if you want to.

P.S. Here in America everything is sooo big, I went to the store to buy some cotton swabs for ears and the tiniest pack was 600 pieces. I MEAN 600.

P.P.S. All these English everyday is becoming always more normal and sometimes if I have to write in Italian I have to concentrate hahaha

Finally I and Pauline find Nutellaaaa  (our hmum is allergic to hazelnuts too so they don't eat it). It is very expensive here, one tiny pot like this one 5 dollars...crazy Americans.

(Oh and on the pot there's written made in Canada...I almost felt sick)

We went at Detroit Lake for three days last weekend and we ate hot dogs and smores (marshmallows plus chocolate plus biscuits: divine) around the bonfire and one night we cooked spaghetti, they were delicious and not really different from the Italian ones....or maybe I'm saying this because I've already forgotten the taste of my beloved pasta (so sad).