Well I have been here almost a week now and seem to be adjusting just fine. Even though my bed is the hardest bed I have ever slept on, I seem to be getting more sleep than a lot of other people who have had a lot of troubles falling or staying asleep. I am not adjusting to the horrid mosquitos though! They love me so much and I hate them so much. I don’t understand how I am such a target but I probably have like 10 bites on each leg at all times. Kind of anxious for the weather to get cooler so I am not showing skin for mosquitos to attack. It has been quite hot here!.. And humid which I am not used to living in.  But I like the humidity because it makes my skin feel niceJ

My apartment is still taking some getting used to. We still don’t have wifi ugh! (the only apartment our that doesn’t have it.. something to do with the service) So that is REALLY annoying. But it has kept me very scholarly I would say, reading every night before bed and when I have some free time haha. I guess it’s also a good break from my usual over connectedness with the social media world. It’s just gotten annoying when having to buy flights or now that school has started. Our kitchen does not have a dishwasher or a microwave so adapting to that is still in the process too. Using our oven has been a challenge too because it’s only in Celsius and we don’t have the wifi to look up the conversion. I blame myself for not remembering this conversion in school. We cooked (what we think was chicken) in the oven a couple nights ago and what we estimated should take 15 minutes ended up taking like 40.

Other than being at home, I have LOVED exploring and walking around Orvieto. There’s just so much history in all the buildings! You can see which walls have been renovated recently and which haven’t been touched in centuries, and dents in the walls where maybe cars have swiped parts of it off. It’s like the buildings tell the story of the city. It’s fascinating to me. It’s also crazy to me that in America there’s techniques to create to look of the walls here that are just naturally beautiful with age and distress. Also, when walking around the city, there are not only a lot of stray cats, but a shit ton of WIENER DOGS!  I feel like everyone who owns a dog has a wiener dog! It’s so weird! But I love it because I have always loved dogs with short legs so I’m digging all these hot dog dogs walking around with there million steps just to go a short distance. Hehe.

Ciao,

Danielle