counting down
hello again
well, there is not many days left until i leave. 18 to be exact. it seems very close now, as opposed to when i started this blog, less than a month ago, when it seemed very very far away. i am getting nervous, and excited. and sad. lately i have found i have been quite sad, thinking about leaving home, freinds, family, and all that is familiar. it gets me rather down sometimes, but then i think about all the fantastic things i'll be doing and i get excited again.....until i think about all the people i love so dearly and will have to leave, which gets me down again. and so the cycle continues. however, i have found that i have been more 'up' than 'down' these last 2 days since i've been home. for those of you who didn't know, i was away for a week after new year at a place called queen mary falls. it's kind of near warwick and is very pretty, with a waterfall and birds to feed and caravans everywhere! and it's in a national park so there's pretty walks, and all of the countryside is just beautiful. it was nice cos when we were there it rained a bit and the whole condamine valley got all misty and everything is so green so it reminded me of england....not that i've ever been there, but the pictures i've seen and stuff.
aanyway, so while i was away i was getting very sad, i suppose because i was away from my friends and i missed you all very much! and that got me thinking about the fact that in less than a month i woudln't be able to think, well i miss them now but i'll be home in a week, cos i'll be away for a while. however, since i've come home i've seen almost all of you (mostly at josie's surprise party) and i feel much better now.
i've also had an email from ms primavori, who will be my english teacher at the correggio instituto technico, where i will be going to school. she was wanting to line up a bit of a time table for me, and after reading my profile she put me in the corso ERICA, or a language course, in the 5th class....whatever that means. i assume that is maybe gr5 of high school or something like that. not sure yet.
so anyway, the list of subjects was something like this: italian literature (cool! i might get to read Dante in his mother-tongue), Arts (hope that includes music), history (always great), geography (cool cos i've never done that before and i'm sure it's interesting), religion (obviously this is of some relevance and particular interest to me, and interesting cos it's roman catholic as opposed to protestant, which is what i am) P.E. (which will be good, and will hopefully help me to not gain too much pasta-poundage), maths (i can deal with that i think), economics (i've never done that before either so that is cool) , english (it will be interesting to see how they teach it), spanish (cool! more languages, although perhaps i shoudl concentrate just on italian), and also french and german, but i don't know if i will be doing those lessons. so, despite the fact that i will be studying twice as many subjects as in australia, i am really looking foward to it! being the square that i am, thinking about going to school there makes me really really excited! i can't wait to study all those different subjects, especially the ones i've never done before like economics, geography and spanish.
for the next few weeks i will be focusing on spending as much time with my freinds and family as possible, learning as much italian as possible, doing as muhc background reading on italy and it's history as possible (although luckily i already know a lot of the ancient stuff from ancient history), doing my last shifts at good old stackies, and packing, which consists of organising my clothes and deciding what stuff to take, obviously, but also putting all my songs onto my new iPod, organising my piano sheet music into a really minimal amount and deciding which songs i want to take, which i think will be a harder decision than the clothes, and making sure i have things like money, adresses of people, presents for my host family and stuff. so there's a lot do to.
and i will leave this blog there for the night as i'm fairly tired as i was up rather late last night on the internet talking to alicia!!!! (miss you heaps and it was great to talk to you), and then domenic rang me up very early this morning - 8am shock horror! we saw lemony snicket's a series of unfortunate events today and i thoroughly enjoyed it.
ok. that's it for now
love ellen
posted by Ellen of Taranganba @ 9:39 PM
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