5.

Parks and malls

As you can see, we've been to a beautiful park of Rome, which is called Villa Pamphili. But of course, it's not the only park we went to. In fact, we saw quite a few lovely places like that. The parks are, among other things, my favourite parts of Rome because of their almost untouched nature. Finding trash happens much more seldom here, even though there are indeed some points where people seem to give nothing about the vegetation. But I'd rather wanted to share pretty views with you, so here you are:

It's a bit long ago, maybe two weeks, but we also went to a mall near Rome, where everything looked pretty expensive to me. And above one passage with all the shops, we found loads of pink umbrellas hanging above our heads to protect us from possible showers ;)

 

 

We didn't buy anything in case you wanted to know, though it was quite interesting.

OK, so that's enough again for today ;)

4.

The REAL Blog

Planning my next post, I decided to finally start a real blog with real little comments and even real photos ;) because I noticed that I haven't been too detailed and regularly. In order to improve my blogger professionalism, I'll try to be stricter with myself... can't promise anything though :)
OK, let's start:

So, here's a typical alleyway of Rome, where you can see that most of the buildings are in sandy colours which looks kind of homely and pleasent to me. I took this pic on our way home from school. I like going through the streets here although there often is too much trash in them.

We often visit the centre of Rome in which there are so many beautiful buildings to look at...

 

I hope you liked my pictures.

For this time there were enough of them I think (I don't want to overstrain you or something ;). But don't worry, there'll be more stuff to look at in the next post, and of course, more to read as well.

 



3.

Pasta every day

So, people in general - I really dont want to support any generalizations but... you know - have lots of temper, are lively, spirited and get loud very easily, to be honest. E.g. the fact that some people stand in the street, discussing wildly because of their cars which are parked too close to the next, is nothing special here. There are also several discussions and little fights within the family and among friends but these are always forgotten quickly. I guess you could say the trouble vanishes as quickly as it comes. Apart from this they treat each other warmly, and most of the time there's a kind and heartfelt atmosphere around, especially in comparison to the german treatment that I am used to.
Another fact: Italians seem to be very proud of their pasta. And I should know because for me there was not a single day without pasta. I also got to know many different types of sauces and side dishes that I never expected to be eaten with pasta ;), such as zucchini and peppers.
People here indeed have other eating habits than German. To me it's curious that they don't eat any bread for breakfast, but for after any other meal. At school there's no such thing as a cafeteria, there are only vending machines in the halls from where you can get coffee, tea, hot chocolate or little snacks which are the only food you eat before you get home...
I think that's got to be enough about food for one blog and by that I mean enough for today, so...
bye ;)

2.

First day in school

At our first school day we were too late - because of the bus - but that seemed to bother no one.
Unfortunately, I forgot most of my stuff such as my laptop, so I couldn't get started with my work.
The school was confusing to me, it was much bigger from the inside than it looked from the outside and had nested and complex passages and lots of students, which was even scarier for me after I found out that I had to change classes almost every lesson. Luckily, my host sister (her Name is Ludo, by the way) always led me to the next rooms.
I met lots of really cool people, who were all very helpful and kind.
In the afternoon we went to Elisa's, who is the girl I will live at for the next month, and she cooked lunch for us - again pasta with tomato sauce and mozzarella as an appetizer.
So, basically that was my first day. (Just to let you know, I won't tell you about every single day from now on. More precisely, my next post will be about my general impressions, e.g. about the people and the city.)

1.

Arrival

Getting up early is always pretty harsh for me but because we had to get to the airport in Tegel, Berlin, at quarter past 7 a.m. on Monday, the 30th of March, we had to get up at 5 a.m. and eventually I only slept four hours. Surprisingly, that wasn't a problem at all.
Luckily, my brother showed mercy and accompanied us on the trip to Berlin (though he vanished inside the car again as soon as we arrived). At the airport we met Lara, who is another exchange partner from my school, and my teacher, who had organized the exchange programm, and after we had solved a little baggage-problem of mine, we had to say good bye to our families.
The flight was relaxing, in my opinion, and as we arrived at the Italian airport, we saw our host families, who were waiting for us - there were waiting two girls with their mothers for me, who explained that I would change families after a month.
So, our first activity was to have lunch all together while we got to know each other. And the first thing I found out about Italians is that they literally eat lots of pizza, pasta and mozzarella.
After that we went to the sea, which was nearby, and then finally got to Rome, where we had a rest and I could unpack my stuff. This eveninng we got to bed early because the next day we had to go to school.

Finally

Finally!

After the first week of arrival, I made it and created my own blog - at last! So, from now on I will sacrifice a few hours of my freetime to write down what happened the last days during my stay in Rome. Hope, you'll like it ;)