finalmente!

april is the rainy month alright. i've spent the past few days dodging puddles and hoping i remembered my umbrella. luckily i have, for the most part.

these are some pics from france and some from italy. it was a fun trip, even if my wardrobe doesnt seem to change from that green jacket and white scarf. it was sort of cold, which was a bummer, but the sights were good and the food even better.

milano

yet another month has flown by without even telling me.

schools been going good, we've moved onto plato in philosophy and sine and cosine in math. theres a picture of my classroom, the one i sit in every day for 5 hours excluding sundays. the gyms been going good, this is my last conversation with my best friend/trainer guy claudio:

me- claudio, what was your favorite subject in high school?

claudio- well there was this girl with a red jumper, i liked her a lot.

me- no, i mean like, school subject

claudio- oh i know, that was my favorite. all of my effort went into that one. i had an a +. haha, no i'm just joking.

me- yeah, haha, i figured

claudio- i had a b-. hahaha.

yeah, hes the bomb.

so we went to milan the other weekend to check it out. i actually hooked up with an italian girl who lived in gettysburg for one year as an exchange student and hung out with her most of the day, luisa is her name. she was really sweet and we talked about her host families, the hubers, you know with the twins sam and the one that dated sydney cullison, and the levans, dont worry, i've already informed dani.

we walked around a lot, ate some of the delicious cuisine, and chit chatted it up. we had lunch with two of the other exchange students living in milan this year. one is from connetticut and the other just got here a few weeks ago from australia. they were both pretty nice, having a good time, you know.

then this weekend i'm off to rome with my friend alana from canada. meaning even more picture and a little bit warmer weather. and probably a more timely update. haha.

hope all is good, love megan

ski time.

so even though my feet did not seem to have a great time, skiing has been the thing to do this month. instead of skiing down the same mountain for 6 hours, you just move from town to town, crossing streets and passing houses and seeing some kickin mountains. we ususally go to zoldo, which is about 45 minutes away. i've stopped falling, which is a plus, but have a long way to go to match my skills with the 12 year olds racing down the mountain beside me.

i totally rocked out christmas eve at church. it was pretty packed, but the choir sounded awesome as usual. church is basically the same, but way colder and way more awesome paintings. i really dont think they heat it, and the tile floors are no help.

today i went up to belluno with my friend alice to hang out with her grandma. its really crazy how even old people versus young people have different dialects. ho capito, meaning i understood, becomes ho capi. bello, meaning beautiful, becomes beo. they basically just cut out letters and sounds where they want, and yet it still makes sense. every region has its own dialect and accent. thanks for the heads up italy.

the saint day of my city is wednesday, so no school. i'll be drowning myself in shopping/pizza/hot chocolate. seriously, the hot chocolate here is comparable to thick runny chocolate pudding. none of that swiss miss crap. i dont know if i'm going to be able to live without it.

i've got to get back to my knitting. i'm trying to average one a month, and this month needs some work.

love