Hello to all you lovely people taking time out of your day to read my
blog! I really do appreciate seeing that people actually read this and
I’m not just talking to myself for 500 some words. I don’t have people
here to tell about my day, so seeing that people back home take the time
to check up on me makes me happy, so thank you.
Today was a pretty
plain day. Class this morning was at Palatine Hill which was pretty
cool and made me happy because Palatine is familiar to me even though
the hill is obviously nothing like the town back home. We walked around
and learned the history of the architecture for 2 and a half hours and
then class was over and we basically had free realms to do whatever we
wanted. I decided to hang around Palatine Hill a little bit longer than
the rest of my class because I was bound and determined to find a sign
that said Palatine on it to take a picture with.
Once my mission was
accomplished I headed back to the train station and headed back to my
apartment. We were supposed to have wine tasting through our school, but
it got rescheduled to tomorrow, so I decided to take a nap because I
was exhausted and could hardly keep my eyes open for whatever reasoning.
I’ve basically been hanging around my apartment all day today because I
don’t really know what to do with myself.
I did figure out how to use
the washer in my apartment though, so I did a load of laundry. When I
say figure out, I really mean google how to work it, try to follow the
google instructions and when that didn’t work just kind of press the
least harmful looking buttons. It ended up working out though and I
don’t think anything got screwed up, so that’s good. I’ve hung around
making little small talk with my roommates when they’re around, but they
both have two classes so they’re not around very often during the day.
I
realized today I’m not so much homesick anymore, rather lonely.
Homesick would imply I miss home and I’m uncomfortable here, but I think
at this point I’m pretty comfortable here. I do miss home, but lots of
people can miss home without being homesick. Home is just a place of
comfort. I really do miss people. Someone to talk to about something
that happened to me or literally just to talk to about anything. I don’t
have that here. At all. And it makes me really sad to think about. I
think thus far in my life I’ve been blessed in the fact that I’ve ALWAYS
had someone whether it was my family or friends. Here, I can message
people back home, but it’s not the same as literally having a
conversation. That’s probably one of the things I miss the most. Most
conversations I have here are pretty surface level. I just miss
relationships I guess. It’s really nice when I do get to talk to people
at home though regardless of it being a legitimate conversation or just
messaging. I don’t see anything changing soon, but part of me is
optimistic that it will and I’ll have a real friendship here and not
just acquaintances. And if not, the rest of this month is probably just
going to be a pretty quiet one until my family gets here or until I
possibly get the opportunity to visit friends in Germany. I don’t mean
to say any of this to sound like I’m writing a little sob story. That’s
not what I’m trying to do at all, but this blog is kind of serving as my
own personal diary while I’m here as well, so I’m kind of just putting
my thoughts down.
As for actual real life happening right now, I think
I’m going to take a shower and then watch a movie I borrowed from my
school. Will it be Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho or il Padrino (The
Godfather)? (My school has a very select library most of which consist
of the fact that the story takes place in Italy or a mobster movie for
whatever reasoning.) That’s all for tonight–until tomorrow–arrivederci!
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