Week 1- La Dulce Vita

So far my life in Italy has been Amazing. On the first day I was here I arrived at about 8:00 pm. My host family and picked me up at the airport and then we went to there summer home in Alghero, the same town where the airport was. That night we ate the biggest Pizza of my life like literally the size of the table! Here we meet a really awesome girl named Guilia, the daughter of friends of our host parents. Throughout the week we spent time with her.

The next day we went to an amazing beach called Stintino. There was an ancient castel is the middle of the water. We went swimming at a little beach with a plat form. The water is so clear here that you can see all of the fish swiming without putting your head under water.

Later that week we went to a place called Grotte Netunno or Neptunes Grotto. It was a large limestone cave that was reallly amazing. We walked 600 steps down to the Grotto and 600 steps up so it was a long walk up!!

Then we went to a beach called Bosa, which also had a castle nearby. Here there was also a little town with old cathederals and stuff. I found out that here they also roast wild pig under ground and wrap it in leaves like we do in HAWAII! (this was really weird).

After leaving Alghero we spent one night in Sassari and then went straight to a religious festivle in a town called Thiese. Theise is the place where both of my host parents grew up. We stayed in a mansion (the house of Giovanni's mom). Here in Thiese we meet a lot of new people.

First we meet two sisters Elisabetta (15) and Luisa (11) (kinda like our host cousins).

Throughout our 5 days in Thiese we meet many of Elisabetta's friends. We had so much fun in this town and the people were so nice. We meet Beatrice, Silvia, Jon Maria, Francesco, Paulo, Luca, Giuseppe and several others. We found out that some of them will be going to our school with us.

After five great nights we left Thiese  and went back to Sassari. It was really sad leaving Thiese because we made so many new friends there, and also Guilia went back to her home on the mainland of Italy.

Back in Sassari we meet some new friends that go to school in the same class as us. We meet Katarina (Kitty), Francesca (Sole) and many others. Sassari so far has been a lot of fun. We also meet two other exchangers to Sassari, Timothy (Florida) and Kelsey (Lake Taho CA).