As I write this the greeting of my blog actually makes sense for the very first time as I have just arrived in the land of pizza, pasta and beautiful language! I must admit I am pretty tired, I was up at 3.30 to drive to Gatwick and it is now nine o'clock Italian time and I have arrived in Napoli after a 2 hour plane journey with unsuccessful attempts to sleep. I just got on a coach which will take me to Sorrento (hopefully) which is where I will be staying and I was suddenly hit by the realisation that I am finally in Italy. I've wanted to come here for such a long time and I am so pleased to finally be here.
Admittedly I was not looking forward to coming, I have just spent two jam packed weeks in Ovacik in Turkey with my family and have only been home in England for four days and it just wasn't enough time. I ended up packing at 9 o'clock last night in the dark as we had a power cut! I am still exhausted from Turkey and a little intimidated by being on my own in a country where my language knowledge is very much below where it should be. But let's not get negative that's what I'm here to do! I don't know if I've mentioned it on a previous blog but I am attending a course for four weeks in Sorrento through a company called Apple Languages. I decided to do this as I have missed an integral year of my degree by not going abroad and am trying to catch myself up as much as I possibly can in the time that I have. I am feeling pretty daunted by the year I have ahead of me but I am willing to work my butt off to achieve my goals.
I'm missing out on all the scenery on the drive from Napoli to Sorrento so..,
Ciao for now...
