Ciao! I have finally made it to Palermo! It is so beautiful here! My apartment is right in the city's center (downtown area). It is just like you imagine Italy to look like with high towered buildings to live in..each having an entrance that looks like you're entering a hotel. Right away, driving from the airport with the mom of the family I will nanny for, Angheli, I noticed every single car is tiny! They all drive small little cars so they can zoom around in lanes that don't exist and honk constantly (Angheli did not honk, but she did just nonchalantly move from lane to lane while talking to me and looking at me haha). The first night, Wednesday, Jan. 20, I ate dinner with Angheli and Antonio, the dad. They're home is beautiful...all homes so far that I have seen have a very historic look to it, but it makes it really pretty. They are actually moving next door sometime in the near future because the next door place is bigger..haha. But anyways, I went with Sugar, Angheli asks her to take me places lol, to the supermarcado (supermarket for those who don't know Italian hahaha jk) and we went to the cellphone place called Wind. I didn't have my money exchanged yet, so no, I don't have a working phone yet, but I will soon! Anyways, we ate this amazing fish dish with fresh vegetables..no wine!!....it was delicious. It was weird because my roomate, Sugar, who is very very sweet and helpful from the Phillapeans, is obviously my roomate, but she serves/is the made for the family...so she was serving me and taking my plates, etc..kinda wierd. They also set the table all fancy with all the silverware settings out in the correct place around my plate. So far I have had that fish dish, and this pasta with vegetables, and for dessert, we always have fruit available. I had a chocolate last night (Thurs.) We usually eat dinner around 8:30/9pm.
Wednesday night, the first night here, I slept about 14 hours haha. I was super tired and jetlagged. I am finally kinda getting used to the time change..it is still weird to think that back home, you just are starting your day basically when I am ending mine! Thursday, at around 1pm :), I woke up to loud Italian boys talking loud outside my window, which is right above a pretty busy street around the city's center (my windows are not very soundproof!). I was dreaming when I half woke up to that--then I realized it was real and I AM IN ITALY!! haha...so I stretched out on my huge bed (a little bigger than a double...huge to me, cuz I've never called a bed of my own larger than a single or twin lol) Thursday afternoon I was reading in my bed because it was raining outside and I haven't started working yet, I heard a car go by blarring I believe it was Evenessence?! lol Many cars go by blarring American music..I also heard "low" :)
Yesterday, Friday Jan. 22, I got to meet a family that I will be working on English with...the triplet family as they call them...they have triplet boys, Pietro, Francesco, and Sergio, and a girl, Sara,12, and 2 older boys, Cesare,13, and Giuseppe, 15. They are a beautiful family, very nice and funny. Again, Sugar took me there with Giuseppe, the main boy I will nanny for (he's 6), and I talked to the older 3 kids and the mom, Ilde, the whole time. We had tea and some bread lol. They made me feel very at home and were very welcoming..a great family. The older Giuseppe knew the most English of anyone so it was kinda difficult..one of the triplets, Pietro, was soo cute! well obviously they all are haha, but he would come up to me and jus smerk and smile and say something in Italian..he just didn't understand I DONT KNOW WHAT YOUR SAYING! haha but he was cute...it was funny how 2 of the triplets are identical, and 1 isn't..poor guy! :) This family I will call them the Morgante's..they're last name.
What else is funny...the shower's just have little handheld spouts..no shower heads, so that kinda sucks to have to hold that the whole time, oh! no shower curtains so you're jus kinda out there if anyone accidently comes in! The doorknobs in this building I live in are in the middle of the door..you wouldn't believe how sometime simple like that is hard to get used to! A lot of doors like the bathroom door pushed out not in...thats tough too haha.
Today, Saturday, Jan 23, I am going to meet another family I will work on English with/nanny for part-time. Today I will meet Monica's family...she has 2 girls and a boy. I will tell you how that goes later! Until then,
Miss you all!
Love,
Britt
Friday, January 22, 2010
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