Yup, that's the address of my "country home" here in Viterbo. This year, as per my request, I am living with a host family. Anna Fabi is my host mother and after a week, she is cutting me no slack with my Italian. Plus, she cooks and does my laundry. I am totally experiencing life as a coddled Italian Mama's boy. It's pretty nice I must say.
Here is what I come home to each and everyday. My studio apartment is on the ground floor of the Fabi family home. The dog, Ettore, greets me like this every day. In addition, Anna's daughter and her entire family live in the other half of the duplex. Note, the bike parked by the garage door is the one I ride to and back from school.
Anna, without her usual cigarette, welcoming me home as she does most every day.
The studio is kind of soviet in feel at the moment. I have new colorful sheets and carpets care of Eleni, my first visitor of this school year.
Eleni posing in front of the bunk bed. In my first miscommunication with Anna, I asked her to make up the second bed for Eleni, but Anna thought I wanted a bed with two places (as in a Queen bed).
The tub is not a rectangle, but a square. I have not mastered taking a shower yet without spraying water everywhere. I've decided for now, to shower sitting down.
The sink and the heater. Note the yellow basket. It's where I am supposed to keep my shoes. I left my shoes out one day and I found them in the basket when I got hom.
The house is about a 30 minute walk out in the country and this is the view. The hammock is a huge added bonus!
When I walk to school, I still have to dodge plants growing out of the sidewalks in addition to those that are encroaching on it. I plan on doing some community service and trimming these back sometime in the next few weeks.
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