Twilight&Food

This is what I ate for lunch today. :) It was delicious. I figured I'd post a picture of it, because my lovely mother asked me to start showing off more of my Italian food that I brag about so much. So here it is.

I don't think I've ever explained the typical Italian day on here as far as food is concerned, so I guess I'll attempt to do that. I eat breakfast when I wake up. Breakfast consists of a mug of milk, that I fill with cookies. :) It's really good. Dinner is served at about 2pm. It's a big meal. The first course is Pasta, followed by a meat. Often times there is salad and bread following or along side of that. Then anywhere from 8:30-10pm is supper, it's a smaller meal basically the same as the second course of dinner. 

 This is my calamari I had for Dinner today. It wasn't my kinda thing. I am not much of a fish person, and so I didn't really like it. My host dad saw my reaction after my first bite, even though I didn't know I'd had a reaction. And my host mom got up and made me a hamburger instead. This picture is for Alyssa Nelson!! :)

Sorry this picture is a little bit blurry looking. :(

Some of you guys might have seen the new twilight movie, Breaking Dawn, but unless I've met you in the last few months. I can guarantee you didn't see it in Italian. This was my first time at the Cinema here in Italy. I understood most of the movie, but I've read the book so I'm sure that helped.

Sorry this is a really uninteresting blog post, but not all of them can have feeling in them. I don't have that much to write about always, and I am just kind of posting pictures to keep you updated a little bit.

Protest.

I can't exactly tell you what the protest was about. Because I didn't understand it fully. They students were opposing something to do with the school. I was pretty much just there because it was that or attend school, and I'd gladly ditch school any day. My friend Mayca and I broke apart from the protest and went to the seafront and bought ice cream, because we were kinda tired of the noise, and the smell of weed.

Camped out in the middle of the road.

My drink of the day, don't ask what it was, because I have no clue. It looked cool though, so I took a picture.

The lovely sandwich my future host sister made for me.

Supppppper! :)

After sleeping 2 hours this afternoon, I have no idea why I am tired. But I am. So I think I will head to bed pretty soon. Tomorrow is just a normal day I think. We're going to see Breaking Dawn.

Appreciation

Life is full of decisions. You can pick if you want to look at things on the good side, or the bad side. I could write a post about my morning today, which wasn't so awesome. But instead I think I will write about what an amazing day I had yesterday. I personally think that is a slightly more interesting subject. Plus, I got to see the most beautiful sunset ever, and I think I feel like bragging about it. ;)

I didn't have to go to school yesterday, due to the fact that I went to see Footloose in a slightly not nearby city. Footloose was pretty good. More enjoyable was the food I spent the day eating.

My Thanksgiving dinner! :)

My friend Larisa let me copy some of my country songs onto her phone, so that we could listen to them together on the bus ride, and so I'd have music that I love to listen to. Her favorite was "Cleaning that gun" which is a really good song. In Cosenza, the town with the theater, I saw Tom, one of the Australian boys who I met awhile ago. I went and talked to him, it was cool catching up.

We went shopping. It was a pretty nice mall. I guess. Shopping can be kinda boring sometimes, but they had a food court, so I was happy! :) On the way home as we were weaving alone the mountain side, on the cliff hanging over the sea, I got to watch the beautiful sunset. As the sun was going down, I did a lot of thinking. I don't know exactly how to express it through words. But I can't believe how I ended up here. It's so incredible to me. I am so incredibly blessed to be able to experience this.

I hope that everyone had as wonderful of a Thanksgiving as I did.

Ohh and I might be switching classes at school, but I'm not sure. We'll see what happens!

Today I said goodbye to my friend Jacqui. She's been such a great friend to me. When I feel homesick or down she reminds me that it'll get better, and that I just gotta be tough and it takes time.

 My delicious Gelato of the day. :) Did I mention about a week ago I asked one of the workers at the gelato place to marry me? I think it was a yes, but I'm not sure.

 Tonight's sunset.

 I like scenery pictures.

My mountain!!!! :)

Jacqui and me!!!! We've already made plans to visit each other's countries in the future. I saved this picture for last because it's the most special.

Wait.. one more thing. If my grandma reads this, which I think she will. I looked at the stars tonight, remember we're looking at the same ones! We aren't so far away. I love you grandma!

You can stand under my Umbrella

It's raining, again. It rains like crazy here! It's really cool I think though. It's been an amazing day. Nothing that great has happened, but I'm alive! And surrounded with blessings from God.

School was boring, like always today. Buuuuuuuut tomorrow I'm going to a nearby city to see the theater performance of "Footloose"! I'm really excited for that because I love that musical. It's for English class that I'm going, so everything will be in English too.

Today my host sister, Elisa, made us a delicious pasta for lunch. I can't wait to try making a bunch of these different things when I get back to Minnesota! I'm so lucky to be in a family with amazing cooks!

My school is really, freaking cold. They don't even use the heaters. We have them, but we don't use them. Why? To save money I think. Personally, I also think it would be worth the money so we don't die of hypothermia this winter. On Saturday the whole school is protesting and so we won't be in class on Saturday.

On Friday I believe Jacqui is coming to visit because she's leaving soon. :( I think she flies out on the 28th. I'm going to miss that girl, but at least I know if I ever want to go to New Zealand I have a place and a friend to stay with! :)

Also, I'm sorry if my English is bad right now. I'm trying to be careful with how I write, but I haven't been talking normal much lately, so I have kind of picked up a few bad habits, and I don't remember completely how to speak right, so I hope my typing isn't terrible too.

I don't know why posts need titles.

I have nothing interesting to say today, so I'm not even gonna pretend.

This is what my sunset looked like tonight, still amazes me sometimes.

"But where I come from, rain is a good thing"

Sunday night Elisa(Brunette) and I went out again. We met up with several of our friends, and just relaxed and talked. It was a nice evening! No annoying boys. I did see the boy from the night before, but as soon as I saw him I grabbed Elisa and we decided we were going a different direction. He did follow us and come up behind us to talk for awhile, but he wasn't as... crazy.. like the night before.

Paola, Me, Martina, and Elisa :)

I have no clue who the boys in this picture are, but the girls are Paola and me.

Today I had school. I had English class today for 2 hours, that was nice. I took a test with the class even though I didn't actually have to. They were surprised when I finished after about 15 minutes. I was like "Guys.. I grew up speaking English." It's been raining off and on all afternoon. It's a pretty gloomy day outside, but as we drove past the sea today I was surprised at how beautiful it still looked. God made an amazing world. I like rain. I might be kind of crazy, but I think rain is fun. Here people hate it though. But it does rain a lot here, so maybe that's why.

I hope there's food in heaven

This is what my meal looked like last night. It was delicious. Last night Elisa(Brunette), her friend, and I went out.

My pizza was raw meat, lettuce, and cheese. This is my favorite kind of pizza so far!

I like going out. Last night got a little overwhelming, because guys here are so much more "loving" and stuff, than in America and it's hard to get use to. There was a guy last night who was kissing my neck and stuff and I kept telling him to go away that it was annoying. I think the guys here probably think I'm cold, because I'm not really use to it and so I don't react well to it. But to me I kind of need my space. I know they don't mean anything by it, it's just something friends do, but it's really hard for me to get use to. I guess eventually I will.

The night was fun for the most part though! Today I'm getting ready for church right now, and after church I think we're going to a family dinner! :) Life is good!

Ahh yes, and one more thing, I changed the settings on comments people make on my posts, so that I have to read the comments before they post publicly. I did that just so I know to look at a comment when someone comments, because before I wasn't always reading all of them. So everyone still comment!! But your comment won't show up right away just so you know! :)