Nearly about to start October now which is scary how quickly time is passing on by! Not long at all now until im home, although dont think im ready! School is school, very hard at the moment with lots of tests, english mostly on Shakespeare which I dont understand a thing and a lot of italian, but its good and I get along really really well with all my new class mates! Extremely tiring now that im back at school and seem to be asleep every night by about 9:30 whi...

Hi team, I'm currentky still in the process of putting all the photos up from summer, its taking a very long time because I have to do them all one at a time. The last weeks of summer was very good! I started a sports club so I spent a lot of time there swimming and at the gym. And also cycling with Cecilia. School started back on Tuesday and I've changed classes which is good! Theyre so much friendlier and including so I enjoy it! Its hard getting up at 6am agai...

When I got back my host family meet me at the airport in Milan and we drive back home. The next day we went out to a really nice restaurant in the country side with friends and the next day I had for a wee rest and catch up on some sleep then on Monday Anna (my 7 year old host cousin) came and stayed for the week, it was a tiring week because looking after kids can be hard but also much harder when they speak another language. So it took a lot of concentration, w...

Today we had a bit of a sleep in and to enjoy the last day and it being 37 degrees we went to one shop the one bar then one shop then one bar etc for the whole day. We did a little bit of shopping and my family got to meet two of my Irish friends and three Italian friends, Sara Irene and chiara! It was Nice to be able to introduce my friends to them. Tonight we all had dinner together with my host family at my house and mum dad Matt and Nicole experienced just ho...

Matt arrived on Tuesday but somehow we had wrong time for his arrival so we were an hour early so we had to do what all kiwis would do and have a drink while we waited! He arrived in jeans shirt and boots thinking it wasn't very warm and when he went outside into the 32 degrees that morning he nearly died! We looked around Parma and did a little bit of shopping and showed them my school etc. We had lunch in the centre and that night (7pm so Italian day) we went a...