Oh snap another weekend

So it is thursday night, and we are approaching another weekend. How crazy! It has gotten really cold here in firenze and I hear rumors that they dont turn the heat on until November. Well its not really that cold. The days are beautiful, perfect weather for walking around in my opinion. But at night I usually get cold, and in the mornings it is hard to leave the warm shower!

I ate the most delicious pasta today. I am learning that Italian food is simple but fresh and delicious. It was pesto mixed with tomato sauce. It was incredible though. I wish I could eat it every day. It was the sauce that my co-worker made and brought in for lunch today for us all. How perfect!

My roommate returns this weekend. I have been living da sola for about 3 weeks now. I have really gotten used to it. Leaving and cleaning dishes when I want, and making all sorts of noise whenever.

It will be nice having more people around, to speak and learn Italian.

Work was great today. I am still adding color to the wholes to match the original, and I am starting to get the hang of it. I am not perfect, but I am much better. When my boss came to look at it, he couldnt tell the real from mine! I wish it was like that al the time. Sometimes I get it good, and then other times I miss. I just need to keep practicing and keep looking at more colors! All the better to keep my brain more active.

I cant believe that my time here is coming to an end. I am on the second half of it. I wish I spoke and understood Italian better, but am comforted by a fact that I read….its take 5 years in a country or of studying to be fluent in a foreign language. I am so much better than when I first came, and I can speak and have people understand me, but it still is not very pretty!

I dont know if I will ever stop missing people! I have made new friends here, but it is impossible to make friends like I have in a few short months! I think this experience has really changed my outlook on so many things. I remember coming home from Vanuatu, and I felt so different, I had experienced so much. It will be hard coming back, like it was from Vanuatu, to feel so different.

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