HEY BIG SPENDER

Ok not actually that much of a big spender considering my card hadn't been activated, but I did make my first official purchase :) 

So after just chilling for a bit and stuff Sara's dad took us to go shopping....(yay) just outside Rome. I guess, technically, it is Rome but its sort of the equivalent of Constantia to the CBD....it was just a big shopping center like cavendish, etc but it had loads of really cool shops in it! So first I bought a book because after re-reading my Seventeen magazine cover to cover because it was the only evidence of English literature around I decided it might be nice to actually read something, so I made my choice of the one 30mm shelf of English books that they had but surprisingly (it must be fate) the book that I've been wanting to read was there :) Then I bought an adaptor just for my cell-phone charger and then we moved on to the more exciting clothes shops. They were all quite expensive (according to Sara) but I don't really have a good perspective on that so I really enjoyed it. They really have amazing clothes and loads of shoes and accessories and everything... perfect for the average girl who enjoys shopping (me)....

So we tried on a few stuff and we also went to H&M which I have only ever heard about from practically everyone who goes overseas so that was really cool and I bought a floral crop top, sunglasses and a navy jumpsuit :D I hope we go back though cause there were just so many stunning shops. Something I noticed is that in Italy, the men are a lot more fashion-forward, like I rarely bump into my guy friends clothes shopping and with my brothers and stuff, they just wear what mom buys them....but here there are guys everywhere genuinely trying on clothes and there are also a lot more shops with clothes just for guys too....

Another thing I noticed is that besides from the occasional truck transporting goods, etc....practically everyone drives smallish cars, the same brands and stuff but just not big 4X4s and stuff like my mom has, etc....Here, especially where i am cause its very rural, there are loads of birds as well...I don't see them so much as hear them, from the second I wake up until about 9 every night, they just don't stop! 

Tonight was a really nice evening, quite similar to a typical Cape Tonian summer evening, you know, still and calm and cool but no wind and warm enough to not need a jersey, it was really sort of serene, haha, but with that comes that familiar squeal of mosquitos and of all my deep heat and Vaseline and everything else, the one thing I forgot was mozzie cream, so I am scratching away....Suppers here are very much a platter help-your-self style so like tonight on the table there was a huge bowl of pesto pasta, potatoes, zucchini flowers, salad, chicken, omelets, fruit, bread and pickled cucumber and you sort of just help yourself to whatever....its really sweet of the family though cause Matteo has asked me like what we have for breakfast, lunch and supper a few times and I thought he was just asking out of interest but then the next night I saw chicken nuggets at supper (I'm sure not usually what they eat) and when we went out to get gelato (honestly the best ice-cream I have ever had!) I asked for lemon and then tonight after supper, the mom had bough a tub of lemon ice-cream for me, etc....so they are really sweet....I really like them and they are all making such an effort to make me comfortable....

Anyway, so they actually decided that we shouldn't go to Rome tomorrow either because frankly it is hard to enjoy and actually take in when you are so hot....so I think we are just going to see more villages, etc which suits me because for my second family, they are in the center of Rome so that's all I'll be doing and I won't have the opportunity of seeing all these queer, quirky little villages that we visit...

Thats it for now....I'll chat tomorrow

- Caity xx