As I said before I used to live in the center of Rome at Piazza Del Popolo, it went well. Life in the center was really fun! I lived exactly at the end of the best shopping street in Rome, coincidently right when the after Christmas sales just started happening. In the center I walked around everyday probably on average for three hours a day and it was just beginning to become nice and warm again. Rome typically is known for its sunny skies and nice weather so that was nice to see. My host sisters were amazing, it was alot of fun to live with them. I met a lot of people from different places because of their different friend groups. Their family's really international so we talked a lot about... international things. My Italian improved a lot thanks to the course that I took, I learned the grammar and also met some really fun people. Now I'm back at my first house and here to stay until the end.

I still keep in touch with some of the people from the Italian school, one has gone back home to Brazil but we talk on facebook often and sometimes I go out with another friend from Libya who has moved her with the whole family because of the current situation in Libya. We talk in Italian together which is probably alot of fun for Italians to easedrop on because neither of us speak it perfectly. It's like dumb and dumber trying to survive in Italy.

In February I went to yoga class and swimming at the gym many times, to the disco, alot of eighteen birthday parties for friends from school, to the sea, and then to the mountains. For a few days my friend from Bologna came to Rome she's from the states but is part Mexican so we went out for Mexican food one night. We also went to a Van Gogh exhibit and the next day to the sea. It was really sunny out but not warm enough to swim.

This past weekend we decided to go to the mountains for a ski weekend. In Rome it's a really diverse place. I've never been to the sea and then few days later snowboarding in the mountains. It was weird actually! We stayed over Saturday night in the house of my host families friends and me my host sister, her friend and my host mom went out in the snow for the first time this year. I love snowboarding so I really had fun and I also tried a new food typical of the northern Italy called Polenta. it looks like baby food actually, but made with corn and you can get it with cheese, mushrooms or sausages and tomatoes on top. It was delicious and warm. The mountains wern't actually to cold, or maybe I was just working out a lot because I hadn't snowboarded in a year but it was really nice. My body hurt for three days afterwards but it was worth it.

For Italian I think it's coming along well, I really like speaking the language and now it's alot easier to get around and communicate. At the beginning it's one of the hardest things ever to do because you feel like a baby who can't do anything! Without the language it's like without a voice. My Italian got better but English got worse, so then it was just a mess all together! Now Italian is the language I use everyday and really often my dreams are Italian. I love it when they're not in English because sometimes English-speaking people speak Italian in my dreams. Weird stuff.