A spalare si dimagrisce!

GUUUYS! You have no idea of how much snow we had yesterday... 50 cm! It's really crazy how in Rome they close schools just because they forecast snow and here in Alaska not even with 50 cm they close schools... Walking up the hill is always less pleasant...

Rude people treat you a way you don't like? Well, stop being mad at them instead of making fun of them! :)

I told you many times that this experience doesn't teach you just English. It brings out all the defects you have and at that point what you have to do is learn and swing back! You know, sometimes people think that they are smarter than you, when in reality they know 1/10 of what you know, but they actually make other people think that they are the smartest in the world... At that point you don't have to keep everything inside, you have to LAUGH OF THEM and not being afraid of anything because it's better

1. learn how to defend yourself from that kind of person;
2. defend yourself always thinking that you are better, because you are;
3. and then just let them stay in their shit, since they really enjoy it

You know, I am the kind of person that look the positive side of everything and don't like bring people down... But every once in a while I have to expect people educated in a way I don't like and that, because of that, you gotta first of all try to get along with and try to change your attitude too, if that's not possible, change approach and see if it works, and if also this method doesn't work.. Well... There are many other people who deserve staying with you. So... Just let this happen!

It is also true that people treat you the way you let them to be treated. So just start thinking about that they are not meant to be there with you, just use them to learn how to defeat them. THEY ARE WEAKER THAN YOU THINK THEY ARE.

Rule to success number 3: NEVER TELL YOUR WEAKNESS TO PEOPLE because if they are your real friends they will like to spend happy time with you, if they are not they will be glad because their life results being better for just a moment.

DO WHAT YOU WANT AND LET PEOPLE TALK. Everything they deserve they will have back!

So.. Keep smiling and swing back! Booom!

See yaaa!

Always wanted to play Hermione!

I remember the first time I watched "Harry Potter". I was on vacation in one of my grandfather's houses, probably in Trieste, and my mom that day wanted to bring my brother and me to the movies because she heard that that new movie was already considered a great one. We went and since then it was a ritual for our family to watch it. We were always so exited to see what was coming next!
Of course I was just a little girl, I think I was 6 or 7, but I always admired Hermione for her intelligence! And well, after 10 years...... I can play her character!!! :D
Marta and I have to shoot a scene from the book that we chose to read and the first book of Harry Potter, the Sorcerer's Stone. I chose for my scene the one with Nicolas Flamel, where they read the big and old book that Hermione found in the library.
I am so exited! It will be such a good memory.
Bye, love you all!

How do you come back to a helathy life style?

The answer is... painting the walls of your room of green of course!!! :D
I am so excited to see how it turned out.. I was tired of the blue with Paperino e Mickey Mouse on the top! It was so childish!
And maybe we will paint also the kitchen of pink but we gotta discuss about it because I can't really imagine it.... Orange probably would work better!
But for now I think about my green room that will make losing weight easier. The green color doesn't lead people to eat did you know?? Now you dooo!!! Let's paint the entire house of greeeeen ahahah

Ps. I am 62 kilos now... So: -1.5 kilos...
Basically I exercise every day and I try to eat less to just lose 1.5 kilos... WHAAAAAT?

VOLO DEFINITIVO 31 MAGGIO!

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" SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO FORGET WHAT'S GONE,  APPRECIATE WHAT STILL REMAINS,  AND LOOK FORWARD TO WHAT'S COMING NEXT.  GOAL AFTER GOAL"



This will be the quote that will help me coming back. It's not easy at all, it's definitely another challenge because you have to use what you learned in the last 10 months and try to let them fit in your old but at the same time new life. Sometimes exchange student consider coming back another exchange year and this helps them understand that there is more to experience in our lives and why not begin as soon as possible?

It's really weird explaining what I have experienced this year in America but I can proudly say that what you learn and the mature person that you become come from difficulty. After that you had a lot of crap going on and you have to find a way of getting out of it, you realize that you have done another step towards a whole new world, or better, a whole new way of looking at the world. We don't like difficulties, do we? Of course, because they challenge us but what always we have to remember is that we gotta go through them to become independent and happy.

When you decide to do an experience like this you don't know at all of what will happen. I mean, you know that you will go through something bigger than you but what you imagine is way far from the reality!  It's like a cold shower. But you become a little bit more confident of what you can do and you will follow your dreams with more confidence and pride.

I wanted to stay here till my birthday but then I realized that I just don't wanna come back because I regret not having done some things during this year. And that's what I always try to do, take more time... But sometimes you have to fix and try with what you have and learn from mistakes! If I haven't done things during the first part of thins year I have to find the reasons why I didn't and consider the period I was going through and finally not being too hard on myself. I always want to be perfect but every time I have to remember that perfection does not exist because nobody in this world is perfect, just like ever rose has its thorn! The rose is beautiful, it smells good and look pure but it has a lot of thorns... I wonder why then it's one of the most liked flower?


 So... Rationally thinking I come home with no regrets.

Spring Break is over... That means we're headed towards Prom!

Hey guys how are you? Unfortunately the Spring Break is over... It has been nice this week, it was always sunny! That's why Marta and I once tanned in the hot tub, to get ready for prom and take a little bit of sun.. Then Katelyn spent a night at our house and we kinda had fun.. Then we went to the swimming pool, we went shopping and ice skating, we exercised a lot, we ate healthy... (tra parentesi sono dimagrita 1 chilo ahahah faccio ridere).. people came over for dinner and we spent almost the entire afternoon cooking risotto with salmon which was kinda good..
We are trying to get everything ready for prom that it's in 3 weeks! I got the dress, now we need jewelry!
Everything is better and worse.. I  mean, it's better because now the end of school is getting closer and we will have two important events, prom and graduation, and we'll party :) Wohu...
But it is also worse cause I have to come back and work on myself and my life to fit in my old one again and in a better way with different goals!
I am kinda happy of coming back because life here is getting to be kinda the same, even though when the guys are at our house everything is so much more fun.
I did softball for 2 months and it was really fun I liked softball! But I couldn't join the team because I had to get in the Varsity team and they were all really good players. The bad part of our school is that is a big school and students are really really competitive in sports and that means that join a team is almost impossible... I could have done swimming at the beginning of the year but I came here so late that the team had already started for a month.  That sucks so much, I would have made the team with no problem! But.... That's the price to pay to come to Alaska and that's okay... I can't complain!
The beautiful thing of this experience is that every exchange student faces both bad sides and good sides of the host family, host school, host state and host country just like a normal American!
I feel really lucky to be in Alaska because it's an amazing place to live in due to landscapes, views, wilderness... It is a real experience and it's way different than living in the lower 48 where from one state to the other it doesn't change that much... Alaska is almost in Russia and it has even the North Pole!!! :)
I live in the place where Balto and Koda fratello orso (or the brother bear) is set, I mean.... Not bad, uh? sometimes I with I could have gone in the lower 48 so that I could have lived a "easier school" but at the end of the day when I see the view from my house I ask myself what else I need...
I have some more work to do on myself and I'll try to reach my last goals in these last 2 months. Deal! :)

Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Updates

It's really weird but every time that I update my blog, I'm bored or sick. :) Anyways.. This weekend we had an AMAZING Saturday. We woke up really early cause we had to be downtown at 10 a.m. for the Iditarod!!! La corsa con i cani! It was really amazing... Have you ever seen Balto?? It's exactly the same! I took some pictures with all these beautiful dogs that wanted to run so bad! After the Iditarod Mark and I went shopping and I bought a few cool things. At 4 p.m. there was the reindeer running, which is basically the Spanish Corrida but just with reindeers! It was really cool, people were dressed up and some of them were almost naked! We got free hot chocolate, cookies and a poster! There was also a snow sculptures gallery that was nothing special but special enough to be visited by many people and tourists.
There was a big man who carried on his shoulders a wolf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I felt do bad for that poor animal!
Then we went out for dinner with a old couple from Australia (they had the cutest accent) and their daughter from Maui, Hawaii!!! They were really nice and they talked to us about Australia and its snakes and horse riding ( they got lessons from a famous Portuguese horse rider) and how cool and particular Australia is. I'll go there one day! We had really good time and good food. After that we went to the theater to see the musical "Dream Girls" (originally filmed with Byoncee).

A week ago I got my cap and gown! They are black and gold, they SERIOUSLY KICK ASS!!! Usually exchange students have horrible ones: yellow, blue, purple..!! I was really a good feeling having everything ready for graduation... I mean... It's ones in a lifetime!

If I have everything ready for graduation I cannot say the same thing for prom... I don't have a dress and they are all really expensive and it's really hard to find a cheap and cute one and I got to take my senior pictures and ask for a limo and a restaurant to have dinner at! Basically I gotta hurry!

Softball is going well but unfortunately Jayme won't be able to drive me so I can either join the Track and Field team, that I don't like at all, or staying at home....
I'll find a way to lose weight cause I seriously need to.. at least 5 kilos...

Peace out XO