laynie

So it's about time I updated with some pictures of where I live and all. If you don't already know, I'm living with a family in Torino, Italy. I take care of the three girls: Eleonora who is 15, Eugenia who is 13, and Elisabetta who is 9. I've been here a month or so and life is good. We live in Torino, but up in the hills a bit which is quite a prestigious place to live I've been told (like the hills of Hollywood I guess?) Umm, here are some pictures of where I live.

Pictures of my Italian family's house, where I spend the most time

Pictures of my room and my little house. It's like a guest house in relation to the main one.


Aaaaand, here are some things I've noticed while living here:

- No, Americans' impression of Italians is not exaggerated...they eat a LOT of pasta. And pizza, pork, and gelato (ice cream).
- It is very hard to find a public toilet. And many of them are simply a hole in the ground...you feel slightly accomplished after using it.
- Torino has very very very good kabobs.
- I can't get used to the computer keyboards. GRR. The letters are all in their regular place, but all the other symbols are jumbled. The apostrophe is up with the numbers, the quotations mark is with the number 2, the question mark is up with the apostrophe, the @ sign is where the apostrophe should be except with an Alt Gr, which is used when there are three symbols on one key. AHHHH. I hate it. Good thing I have my laptop here that I can use sometimes.
- They do not have orange (cheddar) cheese.
- The host of Italian TRL is hot.
- Everything closes on Monday (even the H&M doesn't open until 3pm). It's some sort of extension of Sunday. Except it's more likely that things are open on Sunday than on Monday.
- You must pay to drive on the interstate. Similar to tolls. Except you take a ticket when you enter the motorway and pay depending on how far you drive.