Getting Closer!

Well several months have passed and I'm getting closer to my departure.  I have been accepted to AFS-Italy and Maddie's Family is working super hard at hosting me but AFS-Italy is being difficult.  I really hope that they do because that would mean that I would get to stay in her Italian VILLA right outside of Venice, near where my mommy was born, and have someone who speaks so English to help me out but I would be going to a different high school so I wouldn't be totally dependent on her.  Thats prolly good.

This weekend was my AFS-NM orientation for going abroad.  I basically knew all of the rules and stuff so it was pretty boring.  But we got to hang out with all the students who are here this year and i love them all to death so that was fun and i got to meet all the kids also going abroad next year. They are super cool.  I really got along with them really well and felt really at ease with them.  During free time i even hung out with them instead of going off on my own or hanging out with Pongey or Maddie like i normally would have.  I really felt like I was part of the group.  ;)

I'm not going to lie, this weekend got me really excited....and a little scared.  I'm worried about learning the language, will i even be able to communicate at all?  But I'm also SO excited for MY year, as Maddie put it.  The students who are hosted here this year gave us some advice and the biggest thing was to try everything even if it doesn't sound fun cause the experience might be and if we don't we WILL miss out and that would be terrible.  One student said, "Say YES to EVERYTHING." lol, but i know what he meant.

I'll prolly be writing more that summer is here so I have more time and also because I'm getting to closer to leaving.  Here I go!