What a day today has been!! Sara and I made an eggplant parmigiana for lunch and wow that was amazing! Who would have bought I would like eggplant! I am thou got try lots of new foods while I am here! When the Formula One started we gathered round the TV I was going for Daniel Riccardo (obviously) but Michela and Sara were going for Ferrari and Lewis Hamilton. After the race we went to the Villa Borromeo Visconti Litta and boy was it beautiful!! The villa was bui...

Day 1 Lissone! I woke up at 6:00 after a good nights sleep very excited (and extremely nervous) to meet my host family. The other exchange students and I went to the train station and spent a few hours there wandering around. We saw a man playing the piano in the train station and he was very good!! It was really weird to have to say goodbye again and now it think that my exchange is actually happening and it's not just an overnight trip!!! When on the train I h...

Last day in Rome! Today we woke up very early to have breakfast and then caught the bus into central Rome again for some more exploring. We were dropped at the Colsessum and we met up with a guide that was going to give us a tour through Ancient Rome. We saw lots of unbelievable sites and it's crazy to think that these were made without any power tools or cranes! I learnt so much from the tour and I really enjoyed it! Then we stopped to have a gelato and I had Nu...

An absolutely amazing day!! Words cannot describe how unbelievably beautiful Rome is! We spent the morning playing more games and then head off to central Rome at lunch time. We walked first to Saint Peters church and it was so pretty!! Unfortunately we couldn't go in as there was a mass going on. We then walked the streets looking at the amazing architecture and other historical sites. At about 5 we went to the Colosseum I was speechless as it is so well preserv...

Day 1 of Italy! My orientation course in Rome has been so far amazing!! We went to the post office (Italian post offices are also their banks!) and it was an experience! Only four people could enter the post office at one time and we had to go through a lift to enter the actual office. There were security guards standing outside the post office wearing bulletproof vests on and they had guns so it was pretty full on! I have made friends with some of the other exc...