September 23rd, 10 o’clock p.m.
Dear Clare,
I’m here, in what will be my room for the next three months. I arrived in Vicenza just this morning and I want to tell you everything! At 10.30 a.m. my plane landed at Valerio Catullo airport, near Verona. I was so excited to be in Italy! Since I was ten years old this has always been my dream: I really wanted to visit Italy and the place where my parents were born. They have always told me how beautiful this country is, but now I am starting to know it myself.
When I got off the plane I was really surprised to see so many people walking around, somebody was running but everyone was smiling. This reminded me of Barcelona, my city, a place where everybody is always happy and friendly.
At first I got scared because my luggage didn’t arrive, but a kind hostess helped me and she showed me the way to the gate where I saw my host mother for the first time. She is quite tall and a little bit chubby, but she has a nice, friendly smile. We introduced each other: her name is Lucia and she is a housewife, I suppose she is around 45 years old but she looks younger. She kindly offered to carry one of my heavy suitcases and then we went to her house.
The Bianchi family, this is their surname, lives in a nice apartment on the second floor of a block of flats near the centre of the town. In the house there is a warm and welcoming atmosphere. They have a dog called Sissy, she is a two-month-old golden retriever and looking at her I really miss Henry, my little dog. Lucia showed me my room: it is really nice, bigger than mine in Barcelona, the walls are light purple and there is a big french window through which I can get to a balcony. The bed is large and comfortable and I have all the space I need. I really like it!
Then she showed me the way to the living room where I met the rest of the family: there was Francesco, my host father, a 50-year-old man with dark hair and strange bushy moustaches, he seemed friendly. Then there were Chiara, a 7-year-old girl and Andrea, who is 18. He is cute! He has blond curly hair and green eyes.
They all started to ask me questions about me, my family, my country; I was embarrassed and quite nervous but Lucia saved me! She proposed to go out for dinner so we could get to know each other and that would have been the right occasion to show me the centre of Vicenza.
We went to a little pizzeria where we spent all the time talking about everything! Slowly I started to be less nervous and I enjoyed this first dinner all together, it was fun! I told them all about my country, my city and my family. All the family was friendly to me and they all tried to make me feel comfortable. After dinner we went out for a little walk and now I am here in my room.
I am really tired and I think IT is time to go to bed. I hope this experience will be as amazing as it started! I am excited to start school and I cannot wait to see how I am going to live for these three months! I am glad to be here but I know I will miss my family and I am a little be scared to be in Italy on my own, but I will face this little problem!
Goodnight Clare, see you tomorrow.
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