Salve, Ciao, e Benvenuto!

Hello There! For those who don't know me, I'm Brittney de Alicante, and I'm planning on spending the spring semester of my junior year in Italy, specifically Sant Agata. To my slight understanding, it's a quaint little town outside of Naples, but that's about the extent of my knowledge. Goggle Image has also filled my imagination with pictures of a beautifully aged town happily teetering on a cliff edge, but they have yet to be verified. In S. Agata, I will be living with a host family and attending an Italian high school. I will have a host dad, Marino, mom, Maria, older brother, Giulio, and slightly younger sister, Roberta. I have finally been able to talk to Roberta via Facebook. Funnily enough, she has fallen under the impression that I speak almost perfect Italian. Boy is she in for a surprise when I show up! After I responded to her email in Italian for the sake of practice, she replied with a page long Q and A email all in Italian, congratulating me on my foreign language skills. Little does she know those simple five sentences took me no less than three hours to "perfect." No parlo Italiano. Uso il dizionario. Immediately after receiving this email, I went to Powell's and got an Italian workbook, which I have actually started and plan to continue using for at least ten minutes each day. With or without my broken Italian, Roberta seems like an absolute sweet heart, who is as excited for my arrival as me. I cannot wait to find out more about her and her family. A Happy and Prosperous Belated New Years to Everyone!