Frustrating but cool

Ciao,

I hope everyone is doing well. the farm in sardegna has been great! after a few days of total body hurt from actually using my muscles, i'm feeling good. the farm i'm at is a bioagroturismo in sardegna. that means its kind of like a bed and breakfast but on a farm. and since its in the winter and there are no guests, i get a really nice (really really nice) room with an amazing view.

The work i've been doing has been simple but hard. i've cleared two fields so Franco, one of the owners, can plow it with a tractor. also, i've been working with compost piles. i feel really bad though because yesterday when i was moving (not the right verb, but the closest i can think of) a compost pile, i wrecked a mouse's home. he survived but i still felt like the farmer in the secret of nymh that was destroying the nice rat's home.

My italian is at the frustrating but cool stage. you wouldn't think it but to have a normal conversation your vocabulary has to be way bigger than it needs to be because you never know where the conversation is going to go. at least now, i don't skip out on things to say because i don't know the right words. i just start talking and figure out how to explain random things. its a good thing Franco and Maddelena are patient.

Also, i had my first dream in italian!! way cool, and the dream the night before was my first flying dream! i've always wanted one of those.

In a few days i'll be meeting my brother in london to go to iceland for two weeks. then i'll visit pauline (who i met in new zealand and fiji) in manchester for a week or so before flying back to italy for a good month of italian language...that and its cold up north.

If you've emailed me lately (meaning all of january), i'm not ignoring you. internet is slightly difficult in sardegna, and i've been trying to stay away from english as much as i can. it really does set me back.

Well, its my free day, so i'm checking out Palau and areas near there. i hear theres a rock that looks like a bear.

Have a good day
your friend

chad