Helloooooo!

Well I'm finally here! The flights were ridiculously long, but surprisingly none of them were horrendous. I had the row to myself from Sac-Portland, where I bought some sweet books and met two other Italian exchange students. From Portland-Amsterdam (10 hours of flying) I was sitting next to this sweet guy from England named Edwin. We played the plane trivia game on our mini tvs, where I got first place on the entire plane... Sweet. Thennn we just talked about stuff for a couple hours, and switched iPods, which was cool. He hacked onto mine and ripped all my music onto his computer with his crazy skillz. Thenn I took a nap and slept over all of Hudson Bay, woke up and watched Ever After and Finding Nemo (Josh, that intro is magical) those and presto! we were arriving. In Amsterdam we met four other exchange students from Canada and the US, then all of us boarded the flight to Rome. Two of us had a mini luggage fiasco in Rome which ended up costing me 90 euros, but we did get to leave the airport, so technically I was in Rome... cool? Okay. Rome-Alghero I was sitting with this sweet guy wearing orange pants. He was a chatterbox. He had a lot of questions about America. And ironically the Rotary president of Alghero sat behind me, and he helped me with my luggage in the airport. Thenn I found my family, who was with two girls, Maria and Miriam. Everyone was very nice. Cool. Drove to Sassari, which takes about 25 minutes (which should be 45-an hour, but my host dad drives like a freakin' MANIAC and passes every single car he comes across. Speed limit: 50 km/hr, he drives 120, no joke I have not yet seen the speedometer below 60). Then my host parents went out to dinner, so their daughter (Giovanna, 24) gave me a tour of the house then we went out to pizza, where her friend Antonio (SAM! Tony!) joined us. Got home around midnight, I unpacked and went to bed.
Saturday, my host parents brought me to the beach to meet Maria and Miriam. We hung out there all day and I met Maria's huge extended family, including cousins Cecilia and Enriquo, who was tight. He's around 12 but was super friendly. We all went swimming (the water's ridiculously warm, but they all shiver in it) and then got gelato. NICE. Got home, showered, and went to dinner with my host parents at a pizza restaurant around 9pm. We met two other couples there and their children. Enriquo, Mathilda and Mietta were all my age but awkward and unfriendly, so I talked to Riki mostly, who was no older than 10. We played his video game, Brain Train. He was nice. Afterwards we all walked to the Centro, which is a big courtyard in the city surrounded by ancient buildings, with some big statue in the middle. There was a huge stage set up and some local band was playing covers of American songs. We stayed there until about 1am, then went home.
Today, I met Maria and Miriam at the beach again. Buuut it started to rain so we left around 7, went home and had dinner with my host family. We set up my computer afterwards with internet, so now I am here.

About my life: Sardinia looks like a mix between Hawaii and Napa. It's hot, but not deathly hot, but it's always very humid, which I'm so not accustomed to. My house is like a mansion, so crazy. I'll have to take some pictures eventually. My room on the other hand has posters all over it which makes me feel so not at home. Tweety bird and Orlando Bloom and Zac Efron and the Backstreet Boys and cute dogs. And the Pope. And my bed is hard. Lame. But I have a sweet balcony off my room, which is cool. And my friends are nice. I mean, I only really have two so far, but at least they're cool. My family's nice, though I don't have any idea what they're saying half the time. Giovanna isn't here this weekend because she's meeting the Pope on the Southern part of the island, so I'm stuck fending for myself and drinking hot milk for breakfast because I don't know how to say I really don't want that.

Welll I need to get up at 8 tomorrow morning so I'm off to bed. Goodnight!