This is very exciting! I had my first comments on my blog yesterday! Someone actually read it! Thanks to the both of you for your encouragement!
Entering the blogging world is very exciting. I have been making the rounds through many different blogs, most of them having to do with expats in Italy. It is so amazing to see what people are doing in this country. And their blogs!!! Some people have gone all out and I am impressed to say the least! Pictures, links, stores, feeds, conventions, everything! I never knew!
I have been living in Italy for 5 years now. My first year I was in Padua, and the other four I have been in Venice. I never moved here thinking that I would live here forever, and I still don't know for sure. One thing happens after another, and before you know it, your life is in Italy and the idea of leaving it to move home would be the equivalent of losing a leg in some senses. It becomes a part of you as I think any foreign home would. I know that in America I will always have my hometown, my family, my culture, and my language. I will never feel out of place. I have lived in Italy for 5 years and I still feel like the USA is home, but I reckon that if I leave Italy, I would not have those same ties of family, language, and culture that connect me.
I have lived here pretty independently. I was 22 when I moved here and I found my first job out of the yellow pages and was very lucky that it worked out marvelously. I found a room in an apartment with some students, and made some friends. A year later I moved to Venice to do a Masters Degree and have been here ever since.... I will try to fill in the history as I go along!
The photo is of my cat, Daphne. I speak to her in Italian, with the occasional word in Venetian. She likes to sit in other people's windows, behind the bars, where I cannot reach her. She is a teenager by cat standards, so I attribute this behaviour to the fact that she is in her rebellious adolescent phase.....
Entering the blogging world is very exciting. I have been making the rounds through many different blogs, most of them having to do with expats in Italy. It is so amazing to see what people are doing in this country. And their blogs!!! Some people have gone all out and I am impressed to say the least! Pictures, links, stores, feeds, conventions, everything! I never knew!
I have been living in Italy for 5 years now. My first year I was in Padua, and the other four I have been in Venice. I never moved here thinking that I would live here forever, and I still don't know for sure. One thing happens after another, and before you know it, your life is in Italy and the idea of leaving it to move home would be the equivalent of losing a leg in some senses. It becomes a part of you as I think any foreign home would. I know that in America I will always have my hometown, my family, my culture, and my language. I will never feel out of place. I have lived in Italy for 5 years and I still feel like the USA is home, but I reckon that if I leave Italy, I would not have those same ties of family, language, and culture that connect me.
I have lived here pretty independently. I was 22 when I moved here and I found my first job out of the yellow pages and was very lucky that it worked out marvelously. I found a room in an apartment with some students, and made some friends. A year later I moved to Venice to do a Masters Degree and have been here ever since.... I will try to fill in the history as I go along!
The photo is of my cat, Daphne. I speak to her in Italian, with the occasional word in Venetian. She likes to sit in other people's windows, behind the bars, where I cannot reach her. She is a teenager by cat standards, so I attribute this behaviour to the fact that she is in her rebellious adolescent phase.....
Thanks again for visiting!
4 comments:
I'm impressed that your beautiful cat speaks Venetian ! I couldn't make head or tail of it when I visited...
ah, my wife would love her pink collar!
Ciao, thanks for stopping by my blog.
I went to Venice for the first time during Thanksgiving. What an incredible city.
I got lost a few times in the more residential areas and really enjoyed getting away from Pz. San Marco.
I was in Venice during the low season. I can't even imagine what it's like during the high season.
Hello,
I think you are doing a great job with your blog, before you know it you will have lots of readers:)
I look forward to reading about your life in Italy and how it all happened.
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