Thursday, May 19, 2011
Just when I thought I couldn’t get more excited for this trip, I received my host family assignment. I AM SO THRILLED! I will be living with the Nicolai family for my 5 weeks in Tuscania. The father, Felice, is a farmer and the mother, Manuela, is a housewife. They have a daughter, Oleania who is 18, and a son, Patrizio who is 23. I will have my own bedroom and bathroom, and they will be providing three meals per day during the week, so I will be getting some real, home-cooked Italian food! Also, to make things even more exciting, the family travels to Rome every weekend to sell their goods from their farm at the market, which I will now be part of! So when I’m not off on an API excursion, I will be able to travel to Rome with them and participate in their family business.
I am starting to meet some of the other people on my trip through facebook, and we are all so excited, and counting down the hours. There are only five other people in my program, so we will get to know each other quite well. Three of them will be living in apartments about 5 minutes from my house, and two of them are also with host families. My house is in the historic center of the city, and only a five-minute walk from my school, Lorenzo de’Medici Italian Institute.
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