Today I didn't go to school (woohoo sleep in!!) instead we did a WEP tour of a place called Vigevano. We went to a museum dedicated to Leonardo Da Vinci. The tour was in Italian and I understood most of it and I was one of the translators for the people who didn't understand as well! We were taken to see lots of different works by Leonardo, we saw his notebooks and blueprints etc. and also saw some of his paintings (mostly everything in the museum was an exact re...

I am going to start writing my blog every second day from now on!! So her goes. Today was a good day! I had school for 5hours with subjects I could understand (English, maths, we had Latin but I did Italian work) and we found out that our Spanish teacher has broken her ribs so we won't be having any Spanish lessons! After school Sara and I rode our bikes to the shops and we looked at lots of clothes (I didn't bring any money oops so I didn't buy anything) and we ...

I had a good day today! I had 2hours of PE and I am actually enjoying PE in Italy!! It is very different and more fun compared to Australia (and shocker Cobey is actually doing something in PE!) after that we had English and then English conversation so I helped the class out with that. Last lesson was Italian. It is getting a little easier to understand my teacher but I still am confused. Lunch was pesto pasta! And afterwords I did my homework and chilled. Dinne...

Today was an easy day. I am getting used to my routine now and am not feeling as tired in the mornings and afternoons!! Today I had the first 5hour day of school. We started the day with 2hours of Italian and then we had Science, then History. My class met our history teacher and she is nice. When I told her I was Australian she said that her daughter had an Australian teacher once. Last period was Latin and I brought my Italian grammar book to practise. I was do...

What a day! Woke up at 9 (sleep in yay!) and headed off to Lake Como for the day!! The drive there was a beautiful one and I saw parts of Italy I hadn't seen before! When we got to Lake Como we were able to get into the first ferry which took us to the different towns along the lake. We had a 2hour ferry ride to the first town called Belagio and we walked around and had lunch there. I had a pizza!! The village was so amazing!! While we were walking I even saw an ...