3 Months In

Wow! I can't believe I have lived for 3 months in Italy. I have been so busy lately that I didn't even remember to update my blog. I have so much to write about that I'm not sure that I can remember everything. Let's start with my new family. I am so happy with my new family! I love my host sisters so much. We hangout all the time and they are some of my best friends. With my new family I have learned so much more Italian which has made life so much easier for me. I've been going to a lot of parties for people in my class so I have made some great friends. Then I went to Florence with my class for 4 days and one of them just happened to be my birthday :) It was so much fun. I spent all day with my friends looking at the beautiful art and history of Florence and then my class threw a little party for me after dinner. It was such a nice surprise! I was vey shocked when all of a sudden my best friends came out of the kitchen of the hotel with 2 cakes and some bottles of champagne. It was so much fun. I got so much closer to my classmates over that trip and now I feel like a part of their family.
School is sometimes still hard. I do something in all of my classes except for French, Philosophy and Maths. I think the most challenging class for me is Latin...translating from latin to english and then to italian is a lot of work and very time consuming. Luckily my teachers don't expect anything from me so I am just mostly taking notes in order to improve my italian.
In addition to Florence, I've gone to Lecce, Matera, Polignano, and Trani. All of these cities are beautiful and I hope that I can go back again before I leave.
Thinking of leaving is very depressing but now I have to think about it. I got an email about my returning plane tickets. I have to buy a train ticket from New York to Boston. I have to think about how I am going to fit all my stuff in only one suitcase when it barely fit coming over (and i have bought A LOT of things).  Also a few days before I go back, one of my host sisters will leave for Australia for 2 months so she is counting down the days until then.Little things but they all mean that I have so say goodbye to my life here.
Bari is honestly like a home to me and it makes me so sad to think about the fact that my time here is slowly drawing to a close. I have crossed the halfway point and it scares me thinking about how I will have to go back to America and try to resume a normal life.
But I don't want to dwell too much on these facts. Right now I just want to go to the beach with my friends and maybe go to the cinema later to see the Hunger Games in italian :)