What were you grateful for this week? Good memories and fantastic friendships. 

What was the most difficult or challenging part of this week?Leaving my host family.. and my heart in Tuscany. 

Tell us about a “wow” moment you had this week. They really spoiled me this week.

Tell us about your week! This week we did many fun things, and I had many more things planned to do. But mostly my heart is broken to have left my wonderful host family. I really do love them, and gosh it was extremely difficult to leave. They have showed me endless amounts of charity and kindness, which I am realizing is just a common trait of Italians. 

They showed me their actual home, we stayed at their vacation home, and it was so fun to see where they live. I looked at their photos and they told me stories and I just get at home there. We all went to dinner together and just had an excellent time. I had to say goodbye to my host mom first, and geez that was rough. She told me how wonderful I was and hugged me. It got me all emotional! The next few days I had to say good bye to the kids from the street, and then the rest of my host family as well. They are great people and I look forward to our continuing friendship.

If I wouldn’t have already paid for the rest of this trip and traveling other locations I would have cancelled it all and stayed with them for the final week. But this week will be good as well, I am going to visit a place my dad lived for two years and meet some people that he knew. It will be very exciting. No matter what I do though, a piece of my heart is forever in Tuscany, more importantly with my host family.