Sometimes there are more tutors than camps available, so ACLE puts you ‘on hold’. Luckily, the week they put me on hold, they made an effort to find host families to host us for that week. I was happy, because I was a little panicked trying to find cheap places to go and stay for the week. July and August (especially the second week of August) are the high vacation periods in Italy, and transportation and hostels were really expensive. So, I arrived to Tarcento to meet my new host family, who lived in Gemona. They were a family of an 11-year-old girl, a 9-year-old girl, and a 20-month-old boy. I was nervous to be staying with a family for an entire week, without camp. I didn’t know if we would click and find ways to
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