It's getting real!

Ciao ragazzi!

So, here I am sitting in physics after I bombed my test. I pull my phone out and check a text that my mom sent me while I was failing miserably taking this test. Yes it was really that bad. Anyways, something prompted me to check my email while I was still on my phone, and right there, on my screen an email titled "Welcome!!!!". I had gotten an email from my host mother that went something like "I'm Miky, mother of Francesca... Genova *insert heart emoji here*", really vague I know, but it was enough for me to, loudly, whisper to my best friend that I finally heard from my host family. I found out that my host family consists of a mother, Michelangela, a father, Roberto, and a 13 year old sister named Francesca. And I can not forget to mention, there are two dogs, two big dogs.

I will be residing in the gorgeous town of Genoa (Genova), Italy!


I'm extremely excited!!! Not only did I get my host family information, I also got my flight details! As happy as I to find out the exact day I am leaving, it is scaring me too. I am constantly wondering if my host family will like me, will I fit in, how much I will miss everything over here in America. It is never to early to say the most obvious things that I will be missing while I am abroad. So here is my list:

• The Superbowl! I'm a huge football fan and it kind of stinks that I am leaving the country just a week and a half before the game.
• Driving, I literally JUST got my drivers license and  I am going to be missing my court date to get my physical plastic licenses, it's kind of a really big mess right now, but oh well I have my license and that is all that matters.
• My family!!
• My friends for sure
• This one is weird, but my high school. I've said it many times before, as much as I hate it here, I'll miss not even more.
• Starbucks. If I hear someone tell me one more time "You are going to Italy, they have great coffee over there", sure they have coffee over there, but they don't do frappechinos in Italy.

 That concludes this post I guess.

a little extra note, I literally have been struggling with this post for like 2 weeks.

Swanging, eyes closed just swanging

Ciao!

So basically this post was too embarrassing to keep, basically all I did was talk about a drake concert shocker, if ya wanna read it ill be happy to share it again but it was too much. Also, this blog talked about me getting a 90 on a physics test and getting accepted by AFS Italy. Also Halloween.

Also since we know I love drake, I will keep  the picture I used in the post up.

What do you mean I'm "too skinny"?

It's me again...

I know it hasn't been that long since my last post, but a few new things has happened. Since my last post, I have had my in home interview *gasps* my application was reviewed and accepted by AFS-USA *double gasp* AND it was sent to Italy! I have actually already heard back from Italy, just not in the way that I wanted. I'm a girl that is 5'4 and 101 pounds. I'm not ashamed of how tiny I am, but the Italians found it pretty scary since they got back to me just days after they got my application. Before Italy can accept me, they requested that I get a letter from my doctor saying 'I'm healthy'. What I don't get is why they would question this, I wouldn't have applied to go if I knew I wasn't healthy. Aside from that nothing else has really happened.

Longest process of my life

First off, My name is Shushu, I'm from the lovely town of Springfield, Virginia. I call it a little military town since a majority of the families that move in and out of Springfield are military. Anyways, the reason I decided to blog was to keep all my little stories and rants about my semester in Italy. Yes I said a semester in Italy. I honestly wish that I found out about AFS back when there was still time to register for a full 10 month journey abroad. But hey, beggars can't be choosers *Kanye shrugs*.

Back to the title of this blog post, this has literally been the longest month and a half of my life. Not only has school started and all the work from that has me stressed out enough, I'm honestly so giddy for it to already be January so I can already be heading over to Italia. I started my application on the 5th of September, I honestly did not give my self enough time to actually look through and thoroughly complete the application since the original dead line was September 10th. Believe me when I say I rushed my application. I really wasn't so surprised when they sent it back to me to finish, I literally started it from scratch and in a matter of a week I was able to hit the submit for a second time. Sadly my application was sent back again and this time I was majorly upset, I saw it got sent back while I was sitting in Starbucks with two friends and I almost ripped my hair out. I fixed this little things that AFS wanted me to and after that it was a waiting game. About three days later I got told that my application was finally finished and I had one last thing to complete before they could actually hit submit, the in-home interview. UGH! The story behind my interview was that I had emailed someone who over-looks the Virginia branch and I never actually heard back from her. After two weeks of not hearing back from her, AFS found a local volunteer and helped set up an interview. The interview took place last night and I am hoping to hear back from AFS later this week.

Till then,
Shushu