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Hello all!
Today was a very chill day. I got up at about 9:30 and my roommate Jenny made everyone french toast. I had never had it before so it was a real treat for me. I liked it but I probably would have liked it more if we had syrup or jelly or something to put on it because by itself it was kind of bland. I tried a little bit of Nutella on it though and it was delicious! After breakfast we went on a little walk/run. It was a beautiful and very peaceful area. It was out in like the outskirts of town with a lot of farm land. We saw lots of cows and sheep and dogs. It was really calm and peaceful though. Perfect place for a morning jog! Yes I know it is hard to believe that I went on a jog this morning, but believe it!! It really happened. I have 3 witnesses! Yes, we did more walking rather than running/jogging but I still do it! After that we came back and did some abb exercises also. We all want to lose weight here so we are trying to push each other while we are still motivated! oh! I am also a flippin genius!! I finally figured out how to use our DVD player in our apartment! before we were just using our laptops for the DVDs but me, being the genius that I am, figured it out finally!! Yay me! :)
While we were running I had my clothes in the washer. They still werent done when we got back...and we were gone for a little over and hour. Its nuts how long everything takes here. Then I had to hang dry them outside. Of course the day I do laundry it is cloudy out so the sun couldnt dry my clothes so I had to put them on a drying rack in our living room when it got dark out later on tonight. At least it is done and hopefully they will be dry by the morning. I pretty much hung out at the house today. It was kind of nice to just chill out for a while. I watched some American MTV and did some of my homework. Then I went to meet up with people at around 5:30 so that we could watch our movie for our cinema class. The movie is called A Special Day. It is a movie from the 70's about the fascist era in Italy and is set in Rome on the day that Hitler came. It is an interesting movie but very slow moving and it is hard to pay attention to it for 2 hours, but at least I am done with it now! After watching the movie me and my three roommates went out to eat with the food vouchers that we get from the school. Basically our school made a deals with a few restaurants around town where we can get 4 free meals a week. An example from tonight is we went to a pizza place and got 2 slices of pizza and a drink for free. It is a really good deal! So it was nice not having to pay or to cook my own meal tonight for dinner.
It was nice to be a little lazy today but at the same time I kind of hated it. This whole time that I have been here I have been doing something nonstop. I have always been on the go and had something to distract me. After today though I am really starting to miss home. Then I feel stupid because I have barely been gone for a week and I am gonna be here til May! If I feel homesick already then this is not a good sign! I think that it just really hit me how long I am really going to be here though. If I was only here on vacation then I wouldn't be homesick at all, but since I know I am going to be gone for 4 months, it makes me sad that I can't see or talk to any of you. I just really miss seeing familiar faces and talking to familiar people. My roommate Caroline seems to always be skyping and facetiming with everyone all the time! I have skyped once since I have been here and only facebook chatted with one person. It is really hard. I know that the time difference sucks since I am ahead by 7 hours, but I just really wanna see someone I know and really wanna hear their voices. Since I didnt have anything really to do today all I could do was sit and think about all of my friends and family and how I will not get to see them until May and it is absolutely killing me right now. I scream at the computer because no one is ever on skype! I just wanna see your face!! It is not like how it is at home where I can just drive home when I feel like it. Usually I dont feel this way and if I ever do feel this strongly about missing people then I do something about it and just get in my car and leave. Now that I finally do feel this way I wanna get on a plane and just go home. Please don't feel like I am being ungrateful about being in such an amazing place and dont think that I regret my decision to come here because it truly is a magical place to be and it is a once in a lifetime opprotunity and I am loving my time here, but I miss you. I miss everyone. I just miss the familiarity. I wish it didn't cost so much to call or text people otherwise I would be doing it alot more. What is the point in having skype if ur never on?! Please please please get on more!! I know it is hard to match up the time, but any time that I am at my apartment I have my skype on hoping that someone will sign on and no one ever does! It is really frustrating and it makes me sad. I just want a little taste of home at this point. When I am busy and have things to do I am fine because I do not have time to think about missing home, but days like today do not help anything. Basically I miss everyone so so so much and I wanna talk to you all!

Miss and love you all very much!

Ciao!