Nixing the word Italy from my vocabulary...

Okay so I understand i am in the commitment stage where I am weighing the options "to go, or not to go" this is the question. but overall i don't think i've used the word italy more than a million times during the day today. it's starting to weigh on me already, i hear it and i'm sick of the word, i cannot imagine anyone else wanting to still talk italy. i mean how many other ways can you come to the decision about a place that you cannot say? not sure? yeah me neither.

i have done the pro's and con's list, checked out flights with the bff to assure some emotional support at some point during my stay, got the whole family on board to monopolize my mother's credit card miles for a family visit at another point during my stay, so yeah pretty much if i'm feeling alone, someone i'm related to or something will be in the nearby italian neighborhood. i think what i need is a few days away from "italy." so starting right now, at 11:15pm, yeah i know its late, what can i say im a nerd when it comes to school, so right now at 11:15pm tuesday evening, i am going to remove the word italy from my vocabulary and use the word........hmmm........????...thinking...how about, (looking to the ceiling of the library office space to think of something quirky and fruity, that i can picture myself saying in conversation to others, "oh yeah of course i'm going, where? where am i going, you ask, oh you know &*%$#, i am not sure what i got in place of it.

why dont you give me a day to think about it and then it'll hit the street and i'll be the new it girl who created the next new fly saying! yeah not so much, but really let me sleep on it and we'll see what the slumber brings me.

hoping for more than the uuzz (city speak for usual) yeah i know i'm already an it girl

p.s. i love how i talk to this blog like i'm an entertainer, celebrity, talking out loud even, its hilarious, it's like a dear diary and i think i kinda like it. just ask me if i've sent the link to this to anyone yet, NO!

okay so again hoping for more tahn the uuzz

ciao!

Italy! Is it possible?

Hello! Sarah here, florencegirl, beginning the journey, well four days late to beginning my journey but none-the-less, beginning the journey towards changing my life. I got accepted this passed weekend to a Study Abroad program in Florence Italy. I will be living in Italy for four months this coming Fall semester. I am a full time student and full time worker in the world of food service. I want to document my journey and all that leads up to it to track my experiences, challenges, stressors, and small anecdotal moments that pop into my head about my fast approaching experience.

Here I am, in case you are beyond the two friends and three family members that will read this, I will tell you who I am and what's my deal. My name is Sarah, I am studying to become a registered dietitian. I have had a long journey in school and have come upon this idealic opportunity to study abroad in a small country called italy. The program is for sustainable agriculture based around the mediterrean diet and all it's worth. I am thrilled and looking forward to this experience a great deal. I have seen the julie/julia blog and was inspired to write my own story, because additionaly I am a writer, yes I know, no way!! but really it's true and I am hoping that in some way shape or form, italy does something to my writing.

okay so for real, this is a documentation of the journey i will be taking from last saturday until my fateful return from florence. I hope that this blog brings you lots of entertainment and lots of hope, i am hoping it does both for me. so hang on because here comes the swan dive into the commitment of italy and whatever it shall bring me....1....2......3.....here it gooooooooeeeeesssssssss *splash*