A Catch Up

Well, it's been a while hasn't it?

Oops.

Not really sure what happened... Think I was having too much fun to be honest.

Here's a fairly incoherent list of things that have happened in the past few weeks:

1. The family came to visit. Of course, the day they arrived was the first day Perugia decided to bring the gale force winds out, but they'll be back in April to appreciate my little city in its full sun-filled glory.

2. I went to London. Tom and I stayed with our favourite couple, Emily and James, and we had 4 lovely days, Emily gave me a surprise early birthday present of drinks at the Shard which was lovely, we ate in and out and caught up and laughed, oh and also we saw David Cameron.

3. I've noticed more and more cultural differences in Italy, at the same time as feeling a lot more comfortable and happy here. It's a weird parallel, but it's good. For example, working out what people mean rather than just what they say, I've had my first few proper 'lectures' (3 hours of being talked at in Italian, hello headache) and I've realised just how different the teaching style is here. For example, one of my male teachers calls me his 'dear' and my singing teacher just replied to my Whatsapp message saying goodnight and sweet dreams. The latter is quite sweet, the first maybe not so much...

4. Making friends is hard. I didn't think they would just be handed to me on a plate or anything, but I also didn't realise what a slow process it can be, meeting everyone you can and then working out who you want to get to know and spend time with etc. I'm finally getting there and there's a handful of people I can already see myself missing next year.

5. Clearly I only blog when I'm not really happy. Haha. The same goes for writing songs. Which is probably why I've hardly written any in the past two years, because as of yesterday my boyfriend has been in my life for that long. Ew I still always feel weird being soppy on the internet, but yeah. He's nice. But he's kinda messed up a potential career plan, cause all the best albums are about breakups aren't they. Ah well, I guess I'll have to put up with him for a bit longer!

I have changed my mind about blogging after my year abroad, and I instead just want this as literally a document of my year. I'm actually about half way through now which is crazy and I want to just jot down these past few weeks and document where I'm at and things. Here are two of my favourite photos from my family's visit!