What were you grateful for this week?
A city that has so much to offer. 

What was the most difficult or challenging part of this week?
I’ve been feeling like the “vacation stage” of this whole experience is wearing off which has been kind of hard. Realizing that this is a long term thing. If that makes sense? 

Tell us about a “wow” moment you had this week. 
I somewhat made my host mom dinner when she got home. I was making it for me and decided to make some extra and she ended up actually wanting it so that’s good!
 

Tell us about your week! 
This week was filled with a lot of good and honestly some hard things! I think it finally has hit me that I am in Italy and here for a while! It took me a few days of thinking, “holy crap I still have two months left” but now I finally feel like I am settled in and I am comfortable with my host family and the area that I am living in. 

 

I take my older two boys to soccer practice on Wednesdays, and this past Wednesday taking them honestly made me so excited to get to be there and enjoy watching them. 

 

S and I did not have any real plan for the weekend so we decided to take the advice of her host mom and take a day trip to the beach! It was so nice to go relax and swim and see some more freaking beautiful things Italy has to offer. We went to a little place on the coast, a little south of Rome, called Sperlonga. Neither of us had heard of it but decided we should still go get away for a bit. The train ride was only about an hour and fifteen minutes. We got a nice little hook up with a taxi driver who agreed to take us back to the train station later that day for way cheap so we were happy. We enjoyed the day at the beach and I had literally the best pizza I have had yet.

 

We finished off the week by walking around Vatican City as well as exploring parts of Rome we hadn’t seen yet! It was a good, calming week.