All settled in!

Alright so the program is actually a lot different than i thought.  Only 4 people, including me, are going to be in Tuscania for the whole semester.  The other 10 people are leaving in a month (they're doing a three cities tour-tuscania, rome, and venice or florence).  I really hope they all want to travel around europe as much as i do!  One of the girls (shes staying the whole time) is from Croatia, which is somewhere i've always wanted to go so hopefully a trip there is in my near future!  Today, we had our orientation.  We had to be at the school at 9:30 am for them to explain everything to us about the program and all the rules and all that nonsense and then had a break for lunch...and then i had to take my italian placement test.  All the people that signed up for classes above the beginners level had to take one.  I'm kinda worried!  I think I did alright, and I know my italian is alright for getting around in the town,but I havent studied it since early December so I've forgotten a lot...so hopefully they dont move me down a level.  
After that, Massimo, one of the school administrators, gave me and the other 3 students staying the whole time a tour of the town and explaining all of the history of certain buildings and stuff.  He actually took us down under this restaurant and showed us this really old and creepy tuscan tomb.  it was like a dark, wet cave.  eek.  We then got one of the other advisers to take us around in the van to show us good restaurants and also introduce us to the locals.  Got a free glass of wine out of it!  
The town is really safe and stuff even at night by yourself.  I really like that, especially since I have the whole 'taken' thing still in my head and have the fear of being sold into sexual slavery (haha...but seriously.)  Tonight, from this restaurant where we just got a bunch of wine (and got harassed by creepy (yet kinda cute) italian men) I walked back part of the way by myself and felt totally fine!  Everybody in the town is really nice, and the fact that they can tell that you're not italian (with the blonde hair blue eyes thing) actually makes them more friendly.  Stacy and I's apartment is really cute and quaint.  I don't have very many good pics of it but heres our living room and kitchen before we moved in!

Tomorrow is the town's local outside market. It's something that they have every friday and sells everything from like scarves to fruit and stuff.  We're gonna go!  Maybe buy some fresh fruit or something there....it's actually amazing how many orange and lemon trees there are all around the town!  You would think that they would only grow in a hot climate like florida or something but they seem to grow fine here, and its freeeeeezing!  Alright, well, it's bedtime here, it's still pretty hard to wrap my head around the fact that it's not even dinner time at home...but here's one last picture!

 Also kinda looks like a senior picture...but oh well.  I MISS EVERYBODY SO MUCH!!!! COME VISIT ME! buona notte