Well, I spent my remaining days of my italian trip in Finale Ligure, visiting yet again some of my relatives. I spent most of my time with Laura. She is one of the nicest person I've ever met! We got along great and I loved talking to her! The only thing is that I ate WAYYY too much! She made lasagna, minestrone, torta verde...Anyways, I went to the market on thursday morning with her...the market is along the beach and it is beautiful! Right now, there are few people remaining in this small town, but in the summer, it is a [View Full Entry]

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I just wanted to post pictures of people I've met in Milazzo! I spent time with them during my last few weeks and it was very nice! During my second to last week-end, I went out with Sabrina, Trevor, Julie and her sister from Catania. Julie is an english teacher at the Laboratorio Linguistico and we had a blast! Like usual, I'm eating pastries and having a nice cappuccino! we went out to a nice restaurant that night to the old part of town. The next day, I was invited to eat some pizza and many more other yummy things to [View Full Entry]

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Ciao a tutti! I just wanted to say that I left Sicily last wednesday and I am now with relatives in a small city called Finale Ligure. It is like paradise over here. Although it's "winter", the weather is perfect! Today was sunny and nice and the beach is so nice. When I have a little more time I will post pictures of my last few weeks in Sicily and my journey in Finale Ligure. Also, already I notice the difference between Sicily and the north of Italy! What a contrast! Hopefully I will have more time to write on my [View Full Entry]

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Ciao a tutti! OK, I finally decided to write on my blog, because although I'm not travelling much, I'm still very busy and visiting little villages here and there. I have one more week remaining in Milazzo before I depart once more to Santa Elisabetta and Palermo. From Palermo, I'm travelling to Milano and staying 4 days in total. Although I'm not satisfied with my Italian yet, I'm leaving with a smile on my face and memories of all the wonderful people I met here in Milazzo. My teacher Rosalba is already convinced I'm coming back next year although I already [View Full Entry]

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OK, OK! I've been bad these past couple of weeks I KNOW! Truthfully, apart from dinners with students and professors and going out salsa dancing, I haven't been doing any travelling at all! My Italian is slowly coming along though! I forgot to post pictures of my week-end with Eva, so I am posting them now! Here is a town I visited called Marzamémi...although a dead town...we still got caught in traffic :) After my trip to Agrigento, We've had an International supper where everyone had to bring something from there own country! I made a dip out of maple syrup [View Full Entry]

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Ciao a tutti! I've experienced a fascinating and at times emotional week-end! I've finally took the time to visit my grandparents village, called Santa Elisabetta, close to the famous city of Agrigento. This village is perched on top of a mountain in the south of Sicily. What can I say? The food was amazing OBVIOUSLY (now, I'm a little sick though...couldn't say no to all of that delicious food!) I met my grandmother's relatives that I truthfully didn't even know existed! So, I arrived on friday afternoon and got introduced to a cousin of mine, called Anunzio. He was absolutely amazing, [View Full Entry]

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Wow! Today is abnormally cold here in Sicily, it's windy and there's a huge storm, the only interesting thing about all of it is that I get to see the view of the ocean from my bedroom window! And the lightning is impressive! Well, let's talk about more optmistic things, shall we? Last week I gained an incredible amount of knowledge of the Sicilian culture and its history. I visited Messina. Although most guide books regard this city as not too nice, on the other hand, I went with Franco, my guide, and he showed me another side to it. This [View Full Entry]

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If you thought that all of Sicily was sunny with hot weather, this blog is going to prove you the contrary! But let's start with the hot and sunny weather, shall we! Last week, I decided to not be so lazy and explore the little towns around my city. So, I took the train and went to Capo d'Orlando. Cute little place with a nice beach. I think you can say I have a nice tan, but I'm still white compared to Sicilians here! Apart from my mini excursion, I started salsa lessons, every tuesday and thursday, which is great! I [View Full Entry]

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OK, OK, I know it's been a while, but I have to confess that it's not because of my lack of time...no, actually, I'm just taking it easy and enjoying my vacation. The only thing that's tiring is to always have to think twice before speaking and half the time it comes out totally wrong! But this week I'm actually seeing improvements in my Italian (although I have the feeling I'm completely forgetting my english and french!) I speak much more fluently, although not quite as much as I would like of course! Well, what have I been doing for the [View Full Entry]

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Hello everyone! I'm glad to hear people like my travel blog! YAY! Well, this week I decided to take it easy but this week-end was a lot of fun. On thursday and friday night, most of the students were leaving so we had suppers and drinks...with 3 euros the bottle of wine, you bet we had quite a few drinks all together! I met this girl from Milazzo through a student from the school. Her name is Sabrina and believe me...we have soooo much in common! It's really cool to meet people from here, you get to know how it really [View Full Entry]

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