Happy New Year, everyone.xD

Hey Earthlings,

Today I am very fat.xP I ate a lot of chocolate and sweet. All the food here are just so tempting...

This is today's dinner, Tagameno.xD It is something like pizza, but it's almost the same. Tasty...

This morning I woke up quite early because I have to go to the market with Sara and friends. It was my first time to an Italian market. The market was so different from my country. It rains a little but we don't care. I discovered that the Italians really love to walk. They walk everywhere without feeling tired at all. We walked in the market for the whole morning just to hang out together. This is so weird. They walk around for no purpose, but enjoy themselves while they are together. In Malaysia, we never do it because it is just waste of time and energy. We had rather stay at home to study or rest. Riccardo is moody today and I don't know why. He seems a little quite. Maybe he is tired.

In the afternoon, we went to the supermarket with Bernado and Andrea. They were buying some wine and chocolates for tomorrow's New Year celebration. Bernado even bought me a kinder Maxi chocolate.xD Thankyou, Bernado! That's so nice! But too bad that I am eating too much chocolate now.... I don't wanna be fat.xP

Kinder Maxi Chocolate. I ate a lot of this...

Tomorrow is New Year's eve. I will be going to Florence with my friends and Sara again. FLORENCE! Yay! Love it! I want to buy a lot of things... Stuff in Florence are beautful and nice! But have to make sure that I have enough money to spend beause stuff there are expensive too.xD hehe^^


Lori was driving me crazy just now. I was asking him: Where are you going to stay in Florence tomorrow? But he can't understand what I said at all. Then he started to give me some weird expression which made me laugh so badly. My stomach is very pain now as I laughed too much. I just can't stop laughing because he is doing the same thing repeatingly. Crazy host brother.xP

Lori love computer. He was busy using computer to do is project for the coming examination in his University.

Currently skype-ing with Sinnye and Faizan. We miss our family so much! I was just staying here for almost 2 weeks, but 2 weeks seems like 2 months for me...

Hope I will have a beautiful new year in Florence.xD

HAPPY NEW YEAR ^^

Love,
Yan yan

Hopes for New Year

The view was beautiful in Italy. I wish I can capture more photos here.

Firstly, Mum, please don't be too worried about me, I am save and sound here, ok?
(I seriously miss my family after skype-ing with them...)

I woke up really late because I went out to pub with Sara and friends yesterday night. They played Taboo, which is an Italian game. I am not able to join them as I do not understand Italiano well. But I managed to teach them some childish game from Malaysia. They actully went crazy and loud. We are too noisy, the waiter in the pub warned us to be quiet, but we just ignore them. haha.xD We are so bad... Anyway, I ordered a cup of hot chocolate and it was so tasty! It cost around 3€, that means it is RM12.xD I sat beside Federica, Francesca's sister. She is 15 years old, just like me. But it seems like she is very mature and I am like still a kid. Yea, European girls gets mature faster than Asian girls. hehe^^

I just bought a new hand bag and I think it is really nice eventhough it looks quiet mature.

I am currently drinking a cup of hot chocolate with Lori again. Lori said he understands what I wrote here but he do not understand what I speak. haha.xD Maybe the Italian's just study English and they seldom communicate with people in English. Meanwhile, I really enjoy playing chess with Pappa. He thought me a lot of new techniques. It was really hard to communicate with him because he can't speak English at all. But I know he is trying his very best to communicate with me. Anyway, using google translation is the best way for us to communicate.xD

Was playing chess with Pappa. Pappa loves chess^^

Just now the AFS local chapter of Arezzo came to our house. I was really nervous! Because they are coming here to check out whether if I am adapting myself to this family. Once they arrived here, they asked me a lot of question about Debolini's family and I. I just keep on smiling for no reason because I did not want anything to go wrong. haha. I am so not myself.xP Anyway, I managed to communicate with them smoothly because they speaks fluet English and they had a beautiful accent.

Monday, Sara, Riccardo and me went to Fracescca's house for dinner. We were really crazy in the house because Francessca's family is in Siena and only Francessca is at home. haha.xD We even made our own dinner but the food really sucks because we do not know how to cook! hahahahaha.xD

Went to the supermarket to buy some ingredient with Francessca, Sara and Riccardo.xD
Btw, what do you think about my new shoes?

Dinner is ready! (But actually dinner was really horrible because we do not know how to cook.xP)



This is Francessca's parrot. It's so cuteeeee^^ It can't speak yet as it is still a baby parrot.xD




Riccardo looks like this duck.xP

We were playing a lot in Francescca's house. We went crazy^^

Today, Sara went out with Andrea early in the morning and I did not want to wake up until 12pm. Mamma thought I was ill and she wake me up to see whether if I am okay. I am too tired. I do not know why, but I just felt very very tired. Maybe I am still not use to it to go out at night so often. Sara just asked me whether if I want to go out tonight, I declined her because I need some rest. I felt tired and lazy to go out now. Sorry... :(

New Year. Will it be fun here? I hope it will be.

Somebody said that my
blog is cute. Thankyou. xD
Day by day blogging here,
I am starting to understand
the real meaning of 'BLOG'.

Love,
Yan yan

Busy Christmas.

The snow had gone. How I hope it will snow again.
(it's still very very cold without the snow.xP)

Christmas is over. Yesterday, me and my host family went to another grandma's house for BIG BIG lunch again. We ate a lot lahh... And guess what? I received more present again!! Grandma gave me a pair of earings and Aunty Sabrina bought me a necklace. I love them so much! They are all so nice and friendly to me. They ask me a lot of things about Malaysia and they love tiger in Malaysia. haha.xD I am so happy that I am able to tell them so much about my own country. They said they might plan to visit Malaysia next year! That's so niceeeeee :D They are also impressed that I am able to speak so many type of language. They think I am a fast learner as I can understand a little what they are talking about now and I almost remember whatever word that they had taught me. I felt so proud of myself. Eveything seems to be going well here.

I told them I cant drink wine. They respect me, and I respect them as well. Love it.xD

A necklace gift from Aunty Sabrina ;D



This is the lip gloss bracelet I had been talking about from the previous post. It was a gift from Sara's Aunt.




This little baby is really cute.xD Too bad, she can only understand Italiano but not English.xD
She is Pappa's friend's daughter.

Yesterday, Pappa, Mamma and Sara bring me out to see real 'Presepe'. I like it very much but it was so cold up there in the hill. I was freezing!! So, I did not manage to capture a nice photo. At night, I went out to the pub with Sara, Andrea and Bernardo. Bernardo knows a lot of worldwide things. And I am so happy that he knows about Malaysia's petronas and twins tower! He is the first person I know in Italy who actually know something about Malaysia. We had nice conversation together!

I woke up at 11 a.m this morning. Do not be shock, because Italians often wake up very late during holidays or weekends. Sara woke up even later than me.xD Then, we did some cleaning at home together. Lori and Sara did not enjoy home cleaning. Only Pappa like to do it. Pappa is cleaning the toilet now and I do not know why he doesn't let me clean it with him. Haiz. Everybody in the house now is busy. Lori is busy with computer games, Sara is chatting in facebook with her friends, I am blogging here. It's a good thing because everyone is having some space for themselves. I like this.

New year is coming ahead. Hope I will have a beautiful new year in Italy.xD

The hat was from Federico.
He gave it to me as a
Christmas present.xD
Love it!!

Love,
Yan yan

Christmas

Dear bloggie,


Today is the first day of christmas, I woke up really late this morning as I slept late yesterday night. I went to the church to celebrate Christmas with all my new friends and family there yesterday night. Francesca was busy doing translation for me because I couldn't understand what the people are talking in the church. We also sang songs and shake hands with everybody. That's so nice. My first Christmas in Italy is very very different from Malaysia. This Christmas is very speial for me as I had received so many wishes from almost everyone I met here. I like the way it happened to be at that moment.

Francesca, me and Riccardo.
We were so bored there and I wore Francesca's Spectacles. Love it.xD

On the next day, which is the day of Christmas, I went to Grandma's house for lunch. It was not just a simple lunch, but a BIG BIG lunch. You will never imagine how much they eat. I was SO SO SO full.xD After eating the lunch, I received present from Sara's Aunt and grandma. Sara's Aunt gave me lip gloss bracelet, which I really really love it so much!! It was so beautiful.... And grandma gave me a cute white blouse :D Then, we chat chat and chat. I love Christmas here.


In the evening, I went to Pappa's friend house. The house really nice, all white, clean and neat. They even have a pet cat. I was playing with the cat there and I enjoyed it so much. Everyone was talking in Italiano but I do not understand it. I am glad that the cat had made my day.xD haha^^

I just skyped with mummy just now. They finally know how to use facebook and skype. That's really good.xD And they even read my blog now. WOW. Hope I won't miss home so much, because I still have 2 more months to go.


Sara and Lori is out now. They went out with their friends. They go out almost every day and they do not feel tired at all. I did not followed them as I was really tired today.... Three days I did not sleep well. I am about to have a good sleep now. Good night ;D

Love,
Yan yan

Eve

Today is christmas eve. I just went to the church with Pappa, mamma and Sara. Lori was playing computer at home. The church I went was so big and beautiful! Usually, in Malaysia's church is not even nice or big. But the church here is so grand, just like the type of church we always see in movies when somebody gets wedding. Once I walked in to the church, I felt something really strange in my mind. I looked at the statue of Jesus Christ and my heart felt so confused. The only thing that came acrossed my mind is a question. This question is : What brings me here? My heart is very pain and I do not know why my tears are starting to fall. Maybe the church's atmosphere made me felt touched.



It's Christmas! I am gonna eat a lot tomorrow! In Italy, people eat a lot during Christmas and New Year. It is their tradision to eat as much as they can during this period of time. I just finished dinner with my host family. They made me ate so much and I am totally full now. My stomach is very very big now.xD

I dont remember what is this, but I like to eat it.xD

Lori is out now. I felt kinda bored without Lori playing computer beside me. He is probably out for a drink with his friend. Sara is at another room. She is chatting with her boyfriend, Andrea. Andrea like to read books, he is a very nice guy.


I just phoned Eng Seng and he is so happy to talk to me. We went crazy because we are so happy about our host family and our new life in Italy. I miss him so much!! Eng Seng arh, faster make skype la...xD I am starting to miss my friends and family now. It's been a week I stay here in Montervachi.

Well, that's all. hope you guys have a wonderful christmas.xD

Love,
yanyan

Florence ♥

This morning, once I woke up I received a message from mum that I had scored 7 As and a C in chinese for PMR. I was so shocked when I know it! I did it! Eventhough I know I sucks in Chinese, but I don't care! I like my results, a lot. My hard work finally pays off.xD I like this. I enjoy hearing mum and dad saying that they are proud of me ;D


In the afternoon, Sara, Riccardo, Francesca, Andrea and me went to Florence by train. We had fun there! Florence is so beautiful. I love Florence. I took lots of picture too!xD Florence is a fashion city. I saw lots of handbags, shirts, shoes... haha.xD I bought a H&M Mascara and lip stick for mum or maybe some of my friends because it is a very famous brand in Italy. Fracessca said if I want, we can go to Florence again before I go back to Malaysia. That's so nice of her. I like Francessca. Manwhile we had Mc Donald for lunch in Florence too. It was my first time eaing pork in Mc Donald because Malaysia never sell pork in Mc Donald. It was tasty! haha.xD Riccardo was spending time playing with the pigeons. Riccardo has orange colour hair, mustache and even eyelashes!! OMG. I LOVE IT. haha. Riccardo and Francesca also like Chinese. I taught them how to write and speak their name in Chinese. I think they really like it. I am having such funny and crazy conversation with them. But it is good because I am able to cope with them even if they do not speak fluet English.

This is one of the most famous bridge in Florence. (sorry, I forget it's name.xP)

Sara, Me, Francesca and Riccardo. Andrea was holding the camera ;D

This is so so so cute!! I wanted to buy it for Langston baby, but langston only like Thomas, so i did not buy it. TT

Italians talk very loudly, they like to shout and sing along the street like nobody would ever care. It's like they just live in their own world and they dont care what people think about them. They are very different from Asian people. Italians also often go out with friends. They go out almost every night. Italians love to smoke and drink. For them, it is very normal, even teenage smoke very often. Thus, they are quite shock to know that I do not drink or smoke. haha.xD But I am very strong with who I am. I won't smoke or drink.

Right now, I am just sitting right beside Lori. Lori is playing computer games. We have 3 computers here at home. Sara use the laptop, Lori use his own computer and I use the smaller computer. I am taking my sweet time to blog here as my host family allow me to use the internet whenever I want to. They are super nice and I love it so much because I hope to blog about every single thing that happened in here. I felt so lucky to have them as my host family.

Yesterday, I asked Sara why she wants to host me? She said it was pappa's idea. And Pappa can't communicate with me, thus he use use google translation to tell me why he wants to host me. As what he wrote, he said it is becuase he wants to change the family dynamics. Usually, at home, Lori is always playing with his computer and Sara do not like to involve herself in the family activities. Pappa said he wants to host me so that the family can be closer to each other as communications between the family will increase. I felt so... I dont know. I do not know how to describe my feelings at that moment. I just felt lucky. Lucky that I can fully understand what is really going on. In my mind, I always thought that host family wants to host a student from a different country because they wants to understand different cultures and lifestyle. Pappa is very nice to me. Pappa is very cute. I feel like I understand him and the family of Debolini more after the conversation.

This will be the longest journey in my life. I hope I face it with no fears.

Love,
Yan yan

Enjoyed.

It's Lorenzo's winter shoes. He let me wore it because it is very cold outside.xD

Life is colourful here. I am enjoying it very much.

Today was my first day to school. It was crazy though... I was really nervous at first because I had never been to an Italian school before. haha.xD When I first enter the school, everybody look at me with a very weird face. They must have think that it is very weird to see an Asian Chinese girl in their school, very very weird. Luckily, Sara was beside me. She calmed me down. We enter the classroom. I met my first teacher, maths teacher. Sara and her classmates call her the 'Devil Woman', because she is very strict. haha.xP so funny. Then, we have an assembly in the gymnast room. In Malaysia, there's no such thing as gymnast room, so it is a little new for me. The gymnast room is like a basketball court. It s so big and nice! The students dicussed about a party for christmas here as tmrw will be the last day to school. I also met lots of friend in school, they are so nice to me. They are very curious about Malaysia and they are kinda impressed that can speak so many language. They even asked me to translate their names in chinese. They love chinese words, it is like an art for them. I guess they really enjoy to see me write something in chinese.

Italians love 'bodoh'. For them, 'stupid' is like a normal word. They said it like they are joking around. They even said it to their parents and they do not feel rude. It is so different from Malaysia. Italians are not good in English, I spoke with the English teacher here and her english is just so so. But there are also some who can speak quite good in English like Tomato(a.k.a Tomasso). I gave almost everyone a nick name because I cant remember their name.xP Tomato is good in English, but he is a little shy. I sat beside him during assembly, he told me lots of thing about school in Italy. He is very nice. He told me that he was busy thinking of what present he should buy for his girlfriend in christmas. In Italy, it is very normal to have a girlfriend and boyfriend. They do not feel shy about it at all. Lori just showed me his ex-girlfriend in facebook. haha^^ And Sara just went out with her boyfriend, Andrea.

It's snowing everywhere. Ricardo was crazy.xD haha

In the afternoon, me and Sara went to the church to meet Ricardo. They are doing a church project 'presepe' for christmas. It is their culture and tradition to do it during christmas time. I was freezing out there because it was really really cold! haha.xD My shoes was wet, so my feet was really cold. Pappa said my shoes is not suitable for winter, he decided to bring me out to shop for a pair of shoes. Sara, Lori(a.k.a Lorenzo), pappa and me went out for shopping. Unfortunately, I cant find any shoes that suit me. I felt kinda bad because I trouble them shopping with me. But Lori said it is very normal to shop a lot in Italy. Italy is FASHION. haha.xD


My host family are very nice, they dont force me to do something I dont like. I like them a lot. They are like part of my family now. They always try to understand my feelings and ask me whether if I am okay. They are very caring. Pappa love bread a lot. He is very very cute! haha^^ Just like my dream Dad (I hope daddy in Malaysia wont be jealous.xP) haha. Mamma is also very nice, she always give me hugs and I really like it! Lori is like my elder brother now. He is SO SO SO caring!! He likes chinese stuff and he hope that I can cook chinese food for him one day! He likes to communicate with me but he cant because his english is not good. Sara always help me to do translation. Sara is very simple and nice. She is kinda cute sometimes. I am sleeping in the same bedroom with her and we had fun calling people 'bodoh'! hahahahahahahaha.xD Love it!

Love,
Yan yan

Arrived.

Ciao bloggie.


It is my third day in Italy. Really love the weather here. It snows very heavily on friday. I arrived in Rome with my friends from Malaysia on Thursday. Eng Seng, Sinnye, Faizan and I were really excited and crazy about it. We stayed in Villa Aurelia for a night and had orientation there with the AFS volunteers. It was really fun! I will always remember the too-too-train we were playing. haha.xD And something really weird happen. The AFS volunteer there said that it is rare to see snow in Rome. Rome was snowing!! But it is not so heavy. It is really nice to see snow. It was my first time.

My luggage, to Arezzo.

On the next day, I sat a train from Rome to Arezzo, my host family city. The train delayed almost two hours. Me and Roberta had a nice conversation in the train while I was going to meet my host family. When I arrived to Arezzo, I saw snow everywhere! My god, that was really really beautiful. Never seen snow all over the street before.

I arrived to the station of Arezzo. Came down from the train. I was looking forward to meet my host family. Suddenly, I saw a man holding a paper, waving in the air. It is written"WELCOME KRYSTLE". WOW. I recognize the man, it was pappa Ivo. Soon, I saw Sara, mamma Barbara and Lorenzo. ARHHH!! Gave all of them a big hug and kiss. Lorenzo and Pappa helped me with my luggage, they are so generous.xD haha^^ The journey to my host family house took about an hour. We chat in the car. Talking with them is kinda hard cause they only understand a little bit of English. Italians are not good in English... hahahahhahaha.xP

Snow is everywhere. Love it.

Once I arrived, I gave them present. They bought present for me too! They bought a really nice winter jacket for me.xD Love them so much!!!!

Italians love oriagami. Francessca taught me how to make a snowman paper. hahaha.xD Carino

This morning, Sara, pappa and mamma bring me out to play with snowballs. It was fun!!! So cold! I wore the skiing jacket.xD First time for me again!

Tree is Albero.xD cute.

Had fun with snow.xD

Love,
yan yan

Goodbye

I feel you forget me like I used to feel you breathe.

3 more days to go.

My dreams are getting closer. So close yet so many goodbyes. This is how it should be. This is how I had expected. Soon and later, I will be facing one of the most challenging journey in my life. But I never thought that in this moment, now I am afraid...

Last week, I had a gathering with my families. It's been a long while since the last gathering. I guess everyone is just busy working. Life seems a little miserable after listening to too many untold story. It's better to be a small kid like Langston baby sleeping in his pram...

I am glad that I am finally done with shopping. I bought lots of present for my host family.xD lalala~ I really hope they will like it. After all, it's Christmas. Who doesn't like presents? hehe^^

Today I will be doing slide show about Malaysia, gonna do lots of presentation stuff there.... Looking for Malay songs and picture now.xP

Btw, Taylor swift's songs are awesome. I still love her voice. :D

Love,
Yan yan

Life is short

8 more days to go.

Somebody told me that life is getting shorter thesedays. Life is short, thus I wanna climb as high as I can now ;) I don't wanna waste my time anymore...

Had been chatting quite a few times with my host brother, Lorenzo.Yesterday was Sara's birthday but she is sick, she is not feeling well... Haiz, pity her lo. Hope she will get well soon.xD Daddy Ivo remind me to bring thick jackets becz it's really cold there... They said they will bring me to see snow as I have never seen snow in my life before!. They said playing with snowball and skating is fun.xD OMG, that's so nice! I am excited already! :D

I discovered that my host family don't really understand english. I spend whole night chatting with them through google translate. Haiz, it's really hard to communicate la~ Help! Lorenzo said Italiano is their main domestic language. They learn latin and English a little, but they don't really speak. It will be a problem when I go there if I don't learn my italiano well now... I am learning Italiano now. Seriously learning... Here's my homework :
Mi piace = I like

Mi dispiace = I am sorry

Bello = Good

Bouna Notte = Good Night

Non Capisco = I do not understand **( I love this word the most)

Malata = sick

Haha, maybe after I come back from Italy, I can speak Italiano! xD Hope ba~


Lorenzo also asked me whether I know how to cook... He said he will teach me to cook Pizza, but in return I have to teach them some Malaysian food recipe. haha, frankly, I am not even good in cooking. I just know how to cook maggi, egg and steam rice with my rice cooker.xP But I am also trying to cook some now... Last week, Mum taught me how to cook my favourite dish, potato chicken. I cook it myself today! My family thought it was nice though. Yummy :)


Lalala~ My cousins are coming back from Singapore today. Marcus had been waiting for this long enough.xD haha^^ Hope we will have great time together ba~ After this I will go to Italy le... Kinda tak sampai hati lo, but still very excited to go!!

(photo edited**)
Daddy and me,
wearing contact lens.xP
Love him so much orh.xD

Love, yanyan

Life with hope is wonderful

Time is running really fast. I will be flying to Italy 10 more days later. My heart told me that I should keep all my feelings now to enjoy my life now.

I also had conversation with my host brother and host sister, Lorenzo and Sara through Facebook.xP Both are really nice. Mummy Barbara even asked me where would I like to visit in Italy as it will be a Christmas Holiday there. I really cant wait to meet them! But, the only problem now is just that I am a little scared. Haiz. Scared of so many things la~

Stay strong, perhaps?
Yea, I will stay strong from now on...

Love,
Yan yan

NEWs from Italy

If u right beside me, I will probably scream really loud now. I just got some information about my host family in Italy! Cant believe it until I saw those letters! My host family is staying in Montevarchi, Arezzo. It's somewhere located near Florence, Italy. I will also be having a host father Ivo, mother Barbara, brother Lorenzo and sister Sara. Both Lorenzo and Sara is elder than me. Omg, that's great! I had always wanted an elder brother and sister. I will surely have fun with them! Cant wait to meet all of them!

Btw, I also found them in Facebook! Arhhhhh, waiting for their friend confirmation now... They must be sleeping now, cz it's midnight there in Italy.

Besides, I am so gonna meet my new AFS friends in the orientation day! We are gonna meet each other in person!

Somehow, I felt life is colourful. And in order to enjoy the moment of life, I should stay strong ♥