First Day

So. Finally here. Airport/planes were a fun experience. 5 of us met on the flight to London so we actually got to talk to people. We were then in Heathrow pretty much all day (playing blanket ball), which is the fanciest airport I've ever been in- only designer shops and no fast food. We ate at the Giraffe and bought Clayton his first drink since it was his 21st, and the waitress was frustrated when we had to ask what "rocket" was (it's little lettuce). We drove through the mountains at night, so it was amazing to wake up at Forterocca and actually see them out the window for the first time.

The valley is stupid beautiful; we wandered around today and played soccer and basketball on this field and court that is right next to a river that comes straight out of the alps. The whole valley only has about 9,000 people in it, who speak a weird dialect of Italian and French. We're only about 15 km from the French border.

We had orientation stuff today; it's gonna be crazy awesome but we won't ever get a schedule, we'll just find out where we're going/what we're doing on a day to day basis. Also I can't put up pics of people on facebook due to security issues for people who it might be dangerous to be affiliated with missions (possibly me especially). So I'll probably start a photobucket once I find a cable to upload my pics with.

Had our first Italian pizza and gelato tonight- absolutely amazing. I'm gonna try to study Italian a lot- I can understand some but I need to learn the rules to adjust my brain away from Spanish. Pictures hopefully to come soon.