parlo italiano!

This week was pretty long, had a lot of work and im exhausted but made it through! haha almost felt like actual school this week, not just the extended vacation it felt like the first few weeks! but now i have a lovely 3 day weekend to relax :) I will go out for a lil but tonight but nothing too crazy, i think we will do a wine tasting in Chianti tomorrow for the day which should be alot of fun and than saturday i leave for the school trip to Arrezo, Cortona, and Montepulciano which should also be awesomeeeee. Also cant wait to stay in a nice hotel, who doesn't like staying in comfy hotel beds? I just finished up dinner a few minutes ago and it was delicious it was pasta with a mixture of seafood, than tomatoes with mozzarella and tuna, anddd anna made some leftover chicken for me too haha and of course bread and olive oil. it was delicious. Im so happy im really starting to understand and be able to speak enough italian to communicate with Anna. I can tell shes loving it hahah she hates wen we speak english at dinner, even though we actually have convinced her to sign up for a course to learn english! which is amazing bc shes been hosting students for years, she said shell still pretend like she doesnt know english if she learns it hahah italian is such a cool language, knowing a lil spanish is helping but sometimes makes it more confusing. the only hard part about italian is the grammar, it makes NO sense and even italians admit it! its just all these weird rules and stuff but as long as i have the verbs dowwn they can usually understand me. its just so cool being able to understand it too, speakings harder, but still we can have conversations at dinner besidesss what is your name and where are you from hahah and worst comes to worse i say Come se dice...? How do you say...? and i try and explain the word im looking for through some charade act and Anna gets it hahah or if i dont know a word she said i say Que significa....(the word i dont know)? and she can help me understand it. its just so cool. im so happy i did the homestay. also the new turkish girl that is living with us, Nil, she is really funny. She speaks such good english and idk how bc she said she did an exchange program in the USA in high school for a year in minnesota (whyyyy minnesota i have noooo idea?! of all places in the US! haha) but thats how she learned english and its amazing bc she speaks perfectly. its so impressive. she just says a few phrases weird. and also wenever she says "im sick" she says "im ill" bc in turkey "sick" is actually the F curse. me and lauren were dying wen she was telling us the story of how it was so hard for her to get used to saying the word sick in the USA ahahah shes trying to learn italian and go to architecture school IN ITALIAN! and she doesnt even speak it yet, i think thats a bold move, shes strugglign right now but well see how goes i hope she learns fast! but judging by her english i guess she does hahah