First day.

I'm here. It's beautiful. And muggy. It was a long long long long flight but it wasn't too bad otherwise and I got some sleep. I even got to lay down on the NYC-Milan leg of the trip. It was kind of frustrating trying to get in touch with my hosts via Italian payphone and across the language barriers but I finally made it and they are really sweet. Their names are Carla and Fabio and they have a 10-yr-old boy, Matteo, and a 7-year-old girl, Chiara. They are both lovely children. Chiara is very talkative and sweet and Matteo is awesome at foosball. In Italian foosball is called calcetto which literally means "little soccer". That is just one of those little linguistic facts that makes me smile.
The flat is clean and nice. I'm staying in the kids' room with a girl from Turkey who is interning at the camp where I'm working. I've only just met her but she seems nice too. Everything is pretty much lovely and nice except the mosquitos but it ain't no thing.
I did a lot of settling in and resting today, then this evening I went with Fatima (My roommate) and Carla and Chiara (My hostesses) to see the school where I'll be working. It's a very short walk from the flat, very convenient. THEN I had my first truly Italian gelato. DELIZIOSA! Training starts tomorrow at 9am (midnight California time). So I'm off to get some sleep.

I'll report back when I have some more detailed/exciting/photographic updates.

CIAO