After that, summer. And after summer, ITALY. As an exchange student. For my entire senior year. Oh, gosh. Every so often the incredible-ness takes me by surprise. I am going to live in Italy. It is so amazing it hardly seems real.
I ought to be studying for exams right now. I don't feel so bad that I'm not though, because making this blog is something I've meant to do for an awfully long time. I'm just getting started and I already feel like I'm behind! Studying can wait. For a while, at least.
The title of this blog, "I Jump Over the Sea," comes from an Avett Brothers song called "A Slight Figure of Speech." The whole line comes after some bizarre, but wonderful banjo-rapping (I can't explain, but it is super cool.) and goes like this: "A jet plane and a big idea; I jump over the sea." Which is appropriate. OH! Can I put videos on this thing?
Okay, hopefully that worked!
So as far as preparations for Italy go, I have a host family, which is super exciting. I've talked to my host sister some on facebook. She's 16, a year younger than me, and seems really nice. She has told me all about the area where I'm going to live and particularly about the fun weekends in Italy. DISCOS. My mother has emailed some back and forth with my host mother, too.
The place where I'm going to be living is Botticino Sera right outside of Brescia, in Northern Italy. Brescia is one hour from Milan, forty minutes from Verona, and close to Venice, too. In other words, PERFECT.
Just yesterday, AFS updated my school information, and of course I rushed right to google to gather every piece of information that I could, so now I know a bit about my Italian school. It is in Brescia, and looks like it might be private, which is sort of unusual, because usually AFS exchange students are placed in public schools. Anyway, I am in love with the place just from looking at the website. The facilities are super nice and absolutely beautiful. Here is the website, if you're curious. Please notice the stained-glass windows in the gymnasium as well as the fact that the institute is run by Franciscan monks. Once again, I can't believe this is real!
Okay, I seriously need to go study now. Hopefully I'll manage to keep this updated. Until then, ciao!
