ITALY!!¡¡!!¡¡!! :Ω)

I am at my new home. I will be here for six months with Antonello their oldest son of fifteen, Alessia the next oldest she is thirteen, and Acriso the youngest he is four. Their parents are Ilario the father and Aldabella the mother. Ilario is the guardian of the house, he works as professor at the college and as a guard at the mall on the weekends when they need extra people. Aldabella loves cooking, she is a chef at the children’s school, so we will never be without someone to call or get in touch with when we need to go home or are sick, she also doesn’t put up with any nonsense. I learned this the first day I was here, Antonello was being bullied during lunch and Aldabella went right over to the group of kids, hoisted up Antonello and gave all the children who were involved with his bullying demerits.


Back to the house, I have enclosed a picture of the inside of our home.

The house is a two story Tuscan style ranch with two bathrooms, four bedrooms, a dining room, two dens, an attic, and a full basement that is set up for a small soccer field (the soccer field is only the size of the basement, about twenty feet by twenty-five feet. Antonello is the adventurous one like Alessia, they love to explore the forest behind the house. Acriso is the playful little tyke, he runs around the woods with Woodchuck the family dog climbing the hills and playing in the fields. The forest around my home is full of pine trees and great oaks. There is a lake just over the shrubbery that we go and swim in on the hot days and fish. Acriso caught a walleye just yesterday that broke his pole into little bits. While I have been here I have also picked up on some of the language from the children. Like an Italian saying for goodbye is Arrivederci.


I look forward to learning more about the Italian language and about the forest and wildlife around Italy. Acriso has already shown me some of the animals in the forest like the brown bears and ground squirrels, it is much like Maine except the deer are a little smaller and the deer are not white tails.






Adios,
Harry